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Less than £1000 and using for school, internet browsing, light video editing 

 

With that budget, you can only afford the less powerfull Macbook pro, it should serve all your needs tough. I would need input from other people to know if 4GB of ram is enough for light video editing but you can always upgrade it later in the Macbook Pro. http://store.apple.com/uk/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MD101B/A&step=config

 

An other choice is a Macbook Air, you can't upgrade it and it's going to have less (a lot less) storage because it uses an SSD but if you can store most things on your existing desktop having that fast storage is really nice.

 

http://store.apple.com/uk/buy-mac/macbook-air

 

Your choice for the size of display and memory but I wouldn't choose only 128Gb, I think it's not enough.

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Top lol, I used to have a 13 inch non-retina made any it was terrible. It had an i5 with HD4000 graphics and 8gb of RAM. It was terrible. It was too fat for a 13" and had one of the slowest optical drives around. The aluminium kept getting scratched. So before you come to judgements on how a product is, ensure you ask proper users first rather than look at somewhat biased reviews on the internet

Basing a judgement on one laptop you didn't like is biased. Just because you didn't like it, doesn't mean it's bad. Why would you buy one for what sounds like gaming when you knew it had hd4000 integrated graphics? And 8gb of ram is plenty for gaming and general use so I don't know what you were doing with it that 8gb was terrible. And you call it fat, but yet you also say you used to own it so it's an older model. Have you even seen the newer models? And any computer will get scratched if you don't keep it in a bag or sleeve, so that's irrelevant. Your judgment is purely an uneducated opinion. All four of those sites are reputable so I don't know how you can say there all biased against apple. And I would hardly call you a proper user. I currently own both a late 2010 model MacBook Pro and a late 2011 model iMac. My MacBook has a core 2 duo processor and 4gb of ram and still outperforms all of the major brand windows in my house.

 

 

 

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It was Ubuntu, it wasnt much of a disaster but she hated it. She usually use a macbook.

 

I bet she could get used to it.

It's like throwing a kid who's been playing with an auto-accelerating truck which you pull back to go with a wind-up one.

Obviously.. throwing kids.. isn't good...

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I bet she could get used to it.

It's like throwing a kid who's been playing with an auto-accelerating truck which you pull back to go with a wind-up one.

Obviously.. throwing kids.. isn't good...

Haha, I guess so but still, some people want things to just plain work, that's why my dad (for example) bought a mac and he liked the experience so when it was time he bought an other one.

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