What makes the 11" Air so much more likable than the 13"?

[Mike Boreham]

The 11" Air appeal is based on one thing only....ultraportability. It is inferior to every other MacBook in every other respect.

If utraportability is not your number 1, then skip the 13" MBA and jump to the 13" rMBP which is superior in every respect to the 13" MBA, except modest price and very small portability penalties.

If you are familiar with a retina screen, either MBA is likely to be spoiled for you.

All IMHO of course.

 

[yosemit]

Please take a mirror and look at yourself. You're talking about yourself exactly.

Users at this forum are mostly real Macbook Air users, helping each other and exchanging user experiences. You're using your imagination to reason about them. What a waste you are.

You're a waste of time as all you can do is resort to name calling as you have no response to my points. I'm bored of you now.

 

[yinz]

Please take a mirror and look at yourself. You're talking about yourself exactly.

If you scroll back, you'd notice that you were the one who initiated the name calling. I did no such thing in my initial comments.

 

[yosemit]

Look carefully at yourself. Didn't you say something like "pretty old and a bit outdated" to start with, using your imagination? In fact, it seems that you are pretty outdated with tech.

So, please look at the mirror, very carefully.

If you scroll back, you'd notice that you were the one who initiated the name calling. I did no such thing in my initial comments.

 

[yinz]

Look carefully at yourself. Didn't you say something like "pretty old and a bit outdated" to start with, using your imagination? In fact, it seems that you are pretty outdated with tech.

So, please look at the mirror, very carefully.

I apologize if that came off as offensive. It was merely an observation based on "Photoshop is a necessity for all photographers" (to paraphrase) as it really isn't in today's photography.

A macbook air can run that software fine, but not great and that's okay because it's built for ultra portability rather than performance.

My problem with the idea of it is that the iPad has many overlaps with it and in some ways does things better.

 

[Michael Scrip]

Of course not, but the delay is still there. I work on RAW files and every time I open a file, it has to load and the bar moves along the bottom every few seconds for every photograph. When you have to deal with several hundred, I wouldn't call this computer a "photo editing" machine.

And yet... lots of photographers love the Macbook Air for its portability... although they probably have an iMac or Mac Pro at home to do real editing.

But you can still get a lot of work done solely on the Macbook Air.

If processor power is what you're looking for... you shouldn't be looking at the Macbook Air.

What's funny is... today's Macbook Air is a lot faster than someone's 3 or 4 year old Macbook it replaced.

 

[yosemit]

It's OK. Actually I'm neither (I work in the IT industry), but I don't like the way you discriminate senior people. Some senior personal I know are very tech-savvy.

If you don't like Macbook Air, that's totally fine. This forum is for Macbook Air users to help each other based on their experience, so you will see opinions different from yours. I assume you don't use the current-generation Macbook Air.

It is common for a serious photographer to use both Photoshop and Lightroom. But that's a different topic. If you were offended by that opinion, I don't really know what to say. I didn't intend to offend you. My point is, if a photographer wants to use Macbook Air to do light (emphasize "light") photo processing in photoshop, Macbook Air is quite decent. For heavy photo processing, I recommend Mac Pro.

I apologize if that came off as offensive. It was merely an observation based on "Photoshop is a necessity for all photographers" (to paraphrase) as it really isn't in today's photography.

A macbook air can run that software fine, but not great and that's okay because it's built for ultra portability rather than performance.

My problem with the idea of it is that the iPad has many overlaps with it and in some ways does things better.

 

[roguefury]

typing this on an American Airlines flight in coach

Typing this on an American Airlines flight in coach, on a 13" MBA. The lady in front of me has reclined her seat all the way back, so I have to tilt my MBA into my stomach to type or read.

I had an 11", never had this problem.

BTW, I'm on planes every week.

 

[alphaod]

It's very small and for a lot of women, it fits in their purse.

For me I don't know why I bought one.