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  1. jekjones1558, Mar 8, 2015

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    I am a home user of my current gray haired 15 in 2010 MBP. I do almost exclusively simple tasks like web, email, photos, word processing, spreadsheets. I rarely edit movies into DVDs anymore. It seems that there will likely be a 12 inch retina MBA in the next few months as well as as a refreshed retina MBP. I have searched this forum to try to choose between these 2. I could probably do just fine with the rMBA but I am worried about not having any ports. Portability is no issue. Cheaper price for rMBA is nice but not a deal breaker. What would you advise your granny to do?
     
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  2. Meister, Mar 8, 2015

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    Put an ssd in your old mbp. Same ports and cheaper :)
     
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  3. Boyd01, Mar 8, 2015

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    I would advise her to just sit back, wait until it's released and be patient (grannies are better at that than most of the guys on this forum). Until the rMBA is a real, shipping product we have no way to discuss it's merits or shortcomings.
     
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  4. jekjones1558, Mar 8, 2015

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    Your granny must be very proud of you. This is good advice.
     
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  5. pasadena, Mar 9, 2015

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    I would advise her to wait until the rMBA is effectively released so we know its specs and can discuss how it would fit her needs or not. Meanwhile, no need to lose sleep over maybes and rumors.

    What are you using the ports for ?
     
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  6. jekjones1558, Mar 9, 2015

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    I use USB to sync and backup iPhone and iPads in iTunes to both cloud and computer. I use USB to plug in a portable hard drive for Time Machine. I don't use my digital camera much any more but when I do use USB to transfer photos/video. I also have a firewire drive to make a bootable clone as a backup of my computer. And I have USB thumb drives for doing some data storage and transfer.
     
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