Should I go from Mid 2012 Pro to 2013 Air?

[MyAppleWorld]

So last year I bought the 13" Macbook Pro (with DVD drive)

Base i5, 500gb hdd and upgraded the RAM to 16GB myself.

The reason I bought it over the air was because I wanted 16gb to run 2 or 3 virtual machines concurrently. Also I needed 500gb storage.


Over the last 12 months I have not really ran VMWare a great deal and don't see that changing much but I still need to run atleast 2 virtual machines (windows 8, windows server)

The reason i am thinking of changing is because what I dislike the most about the pro is:

heavy and bulky
slow boot
battery drain during sleep (10% goes overnight)

I suppose my questions are:

Will the macbook air 'sleep' all night day after day with minimum battery drainage? Sometimes I go 1 week without using the laptop but I hate waiting for boot from cold.

Will this yrs macbooks run vmware OK? better than my Pro with RPM drive?

 

[robvas]

8GB is plenty for 2-3 VM's

The Air will go 30 days 'sleeping'

The Air has an SSD so VM's will run so much faster than they do on your MBP

 

[Michael Goff]

So last year I bought the 13" Macbook Pro (with DVD drive)

Base i5, 500gb hdd and upgraded the RAM to 16GB myself.

The reason I bought it over the air was because I wanted 16gb to run 2 or 3 virtual machines concurrently. Also I needed 500gb storage.


Over the last 12 months I have not really ran VMWare a great deal and don't see that changing much but I still need to run atleast 2 virtual machines (windows 8, windows server)

The reason i am thinking of changing is because what I dislike the most about the pro is:

heavy and bulky
slow boot
battery drain during sleep (10% goes overnight)

I suppose my questions are:

Will the macbook air 'sleep' all night day after day with minimum battery drainage? Sometimes I go 1 week without using the laptop but I hate waiting for boot from cold.

Will this yrs macbooks run vmware OK? better than my Pro with RPM drive?

I forget, what type of video card is in last year's non-retina pro?

 

[robvas]

I forget, what type of video card is in last year's non-retina pro?

The 13" Pro (and the Retina Pro) has the HD4000 just like in the 13" Air

 

[Michael Goff]

The 13" Pro (and the Retina Pro) has the HD4000 just like in the 13" Air

So it just has the intel HD 4000 and doesn't have a dedicated GPU?

Hmmm... probably would be a decent upgrade then. Faster, slimmer, lighter, less storage though unless you pay out the nose or use external.