If you already own a laptop then I do not recommend that you need the air. As well, are you willing to pay up to 50% more for the new MacBook Air that comes out? Personally I wold keep the iPad, the usability and portability make up for everything.
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Your friend is jealous. If you have an iPad "new" and a computer then you really don't need a macbook air. You can always get a small blutooth keyboard if you really need to enter a lot of text on the go.
For a computer, you can use whatever you want be it a PC or mac. This is the post PC world we are living in now so your computer can be a desktop "truck" that you connect to remotely while working on your tablet screen.
I have no interest in buying another laptop again and I'm happy having an iPad with me when I travel and an iMac at home.
Maybe we won't see the end of the PC but we might see the end of the "laptop" and a return to desktops as your powerhouse in the home and tablets as the UI that you interact with.
Ultimately, you will get the most bang for the buck with a desktop than you could get with a laptop but you might want portability so something like an iPad can give you that while opening up a completely new category of software.
For a computer, you can use whatever you want be it a PC or mac. This is the post PC world we are living in now so your computer can be a desktop "truck" that you connect to remotely while working on your tablet screen.
I have no interest in buying another laptop again and I'm happy having an iPad with me when I travel and an iMac at home.
Maybe we won't see the end of the PC but we might see the end of the "laptop" and a return to desktops as your powerhouse in the home and tablets as the UI that you interact with.
Ultimately, you will get the most bang for the buck with a desktop than you could get with a laptop but you might want portability so something like an iPad can give you that while opening up a completely new category of software.
I own both and wouldn't part with either. I use the iPad waaaaaaaaaay more, but the MBA is my productivity machine.
Don't let your friend tell you advice, do what you want to do and make sure is the best choice for your needs.
First of all your friend doesn't know what's coming out. Secondly you won't be able to afford the new MBA assuming it comes out in the next three months if you can't afford it now. Just be happy with your free iPad. Buy the MBA on your own.
Your friend was just jealous.
Keep it.
Your friend's jealous and just trying to rain on your parade...just like all those naysayers who used to tell us early adopters of the iPad 1 that it is nothing more than a large iPod Touch.
Your friend's jealous and just trying to rain on your parade...just like all those naysayers who used to tell us early adopters of the iPad 1 that it is nothing more than a large iPod Touch.