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My old MacBook White I use for lazy-boy surfing is showing it's age. Its a bit slow and the non-multi touch trackpad makes it no fun to use with Lion. And I have to keep it plugged in all the time cause the battery is shot.
I've been thinking of replacing my iMac with a MacMini and the MacBook with an iPad.
But based on your report, I am wondering if I should instead get a MBA 11 or 13 incher (rather than the Mini and iPad) and just hook it up to my monitor when I want to do programming or other work that begs for the big 24inch monitor.
The choices would be:
Mini vs MBA 11inch
2.3Ghz DualCore i5 vs 1.6Ghz DualCore i5
500GB drive vs 64GB ssd
$1100 (Mini + iPad) vs $1000
Of course even the 1.6 i5 should be faster than my iMac's 2.66 Core 2 Duo. But, I have 126GB of stuff on my iMac. I could probably off load some of it. I think a good portion of it is my iTunes library which is mostly video podcasts.
Decisions, decisions.
BOb
Last edited by pilotbob; 10-08-2011 at 10:46 AM.
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