What would be faster?

[Monkey194545]

2011 13 inch i5 MBP with the 128gb SSD option from Apple
-or-
2010 13 inch 1.86 C2D MBA with 4gb of ram.

Both (with edu pricing) come to the same exact amount.
I know the MBA has a higher res screen and better graphics but the "pro" has the much faster i5.

My uses are: web browsing, light photo editing, some imovie, hulu, and the occasional game (sc2, civ). Any insight would be nice! I feel a lot of people are in my position.

 

[wordoflife]

2011 13 inch i5 MBP with the 128gb SSD option from Apple
-or-
2010 13 inch 1.86 C2D MBA with 4gb of ram.

Both (with edu pricing) come to the same exact amount.
I know the MBA has a higher res screen and better graphics but the "pro" has the much faster i5.

My uses are: web browsing, light photo editing, some imovie, hulu, and the occasional game (sc2, civ). Any insight would be nice! I feel a lot of people are in my position.

The MacBook Pro.

 

[0007776]

Yeah, I think the Macbook Pro would be the fastest.

 

[ActionableMango]

MBP+SSD of course. I almost wonder if you are joking.

 

[Monkey194545]

MBP+SSD of course. I almost wonder if you are joking.

No, actually I'm not joking. According to cnet, the 13 mbp can't even play Civ V and can barely play COD 4. The MBA does both of these (while not with the visuals turned past high) relatively well.

 

[vincenz]

Faster how? Processing power or games and everyday use? If you encode things, get the mbp.

 

[Monkey194545]

Faster how? Processing power or games and everyday use? If you encode things, get the mbp.

less for games more for apps like imovie.

 

[ls1dreams]

2011 13 inch i5 MBP with the 128gb SSD option from Apple
-or-
2010 13 inch 1.86 C2D MBA with 4gb of ram.

Both (with edu pricing) come to the same exact amount.
I know the MBA has a higher res screen and better graphics but the "pro" has the much faster i5.

My uses are: web browsing, light photo editing, some imovie, hulu, and the occasional game (sc2, civ). Any insight would be nice! I feel a lot of people are in my position.

Is this a serious question? It's only remotely close for games.

i5 is ~ 4x faster than the c2d
A newer 128gb SSD (buy 3rd party) will be maybe 25% faster than a MBA SSD or mroe
The MBP gpu is maybe 10% slower than the MBA one.

Easy game.

 

[ActionableMango]

No, actually I'm not joking. According to cnet, the 13 mbp can't even play Civ V and can barely play COD 4. The MBA does both of these (while not with the visuals turned past high) relatively well.

My mistake. You're completely right.

It used to be that the Macbook always had lame graphics and the MacBook Pro always had dedicated graphics. I keep forgetting that there is now a Macbook "Pro" that is really just MacBook guts in an aluminum case.