Are Macbook Airs good or should i buy another laptop?

[crammy97]

Hey everyone 

 

i have been wondering if i should invest the money to buy a new macbook air or if there is a better option out there for me for the same price or cheaper ? 

 

thanks in advance

[connorpiper]

MacBook air is good if you like Battery life and OSX. And don't need a nice display. 

 

And technically you can put Windows on a MBA or MBP.

[siberiansteel11]

Personally I would get a windows laptop But if you really want a mac I'm guessing you just want the experience 

[Swndlr]

im typing on mba rn i think its great, dad has one too and he loves it.

[j.dirona]

umm so idk its pricy but if you want a laptop that will just work and you won't have problems with it and you have the money to put into it then I'd go mac, otherwise you should probably go with a different laptop

[Tech_Dreamer]

MS Surface pro would be enough but mac has got a retina display, but in that screen size you be the judge..

[Mattr567]

Get a Windows PC. Just buy anything BUT HP. I've had enough bad experiences with them.

[Guest]

Do you need a really nice Ultrabook that has good build quality, incredibly battery life? Do you like OSX? If yes to either of those I'd say it's a good buy. 

[SuperfastJellyfish]

MS Surface pro would be enough but mac has got a retina display, but in that screen size you be the judge..

 

Surface Pro is a lot more expensive, especially as you increase in spec.

 

its pricy

 

nope.

 

 

Get a Windows PC.

 

Why?

[ChaosGoW]

There's an important question not being asked. What are you gonna use it for?

[Syntaxvgm]

I much prefer the MBP  to the MBA. I'm not a fan of the lack of power and low screen resolution. Still pretty nice laptops. 

[Mattr567]

Surface Pro is a lot more expensive, especially as you increase in spec.

 

 

nope.

 

 

 

Why?

I've used Mac's and PC's. And from personal experience I've had a better experience with Windows. It works for you better, the only reason to get Mac's is for design and creation. Plus your asking this on a PC Forum. There is going to be some biased toward Windows.

Also the fact that the Air STARTS at $899. There are a lot of laptops that are cheaper than the Air.

What are you going to use it for anyway?

Hell, get a Chromebook.

[Vedge]

I got a Mac Air and am loving it. The battery life is stellar and the build quality is as you expect, exceptional. I use it for work, so article reading and light coding, simulation and abit of presentation/picture editing. Hell, I even have a few games on it and it runs them well to pass a few hours if need be

[KemoKa]

If you want a nice, easy-to-use laptop for just watching youtube or going on facebook or maybe doing a little photo editing that is also well-built, I can wholeheartedly recommend a Macbook.

Anything more than that, and I will say to you KEEP THE ABSOLUTE HELL AWAY FROM THEM.

 

seriously, just have a look at some of Asus or MSi's gaming laptops and price-to-performance wise, they beat the crap out of the Macbooks.

I've already knocked heads with this sort of thing once, and I have figures to back up my claims.

[randy hutajulu]

if it comes on laptop i think the most matter thing except the specs is how it looks. i'm not a big fan of macbook lineup's design but they look just fine. 

at this price i suggest u Dell XPS 13. somehow i really like it's design. maybe u too

[Søren Bjerg]

I'm currently on a macbook air. I use it for school all the time, my school gave it to me and I'm happy they did, they are quite nice if you're using them for schoolwork due to the nice portability of the laptop.

[GoodBytes]

The Surface Pro is far better choice, in my opinion, especially if you are a student.

It's thinner and lighter, far better display in every way (IPS panel, and not TN like what the Mac Book Air has, and much higher resolution), still powerful system, but what really makes the device shine, is the pen. The pen is not like any stupid pen that you get for iPad and such. This pen detects hovering, has palm rejection, and detect teh pressure you apply to it on the screen, and features 2 buttons (right-click and eraser). The Pen shine for notetaking. When it comes writing formulas, doing a diagram, doing a graph, circle something in your notes, math, physics, special symbols, etc. You can easilly do it, like if you had pen and paper. On a laptop, you just can't. And yuo can do all this with the killer note taking software: OneNote, which is exactly like an infinit, in all direction, note taking paper, where you have pages which you can label, make sections, and make multiple notebooks. Basically, you can write or type anywhere, move things arround, import PDFs or screen shots and writes notes over it, add small recordings, have OneNote convert ink to math or text, analyuss text inside images or your handwriting for searching, and much much much more. Definitly worth a look.

I have the Surface Pro 2, and the more I use it, the more I like it. In fact, if you told me: GoodBytes, here is 3000$, but any system you want! I would go out and buy the latest Surface Pro, and return you the remaining of the money.

Now if you are intrested in the Surface Pro 3, just a heads up, expect a new model early to mid next year, with Intel new CPU. Of course, the same applies for the MacBook Air. All depending on when Intel will release it's new coming up CPU. It is expected that the CPU is faster, and have faster intel graphics solution, possibly DirectX 12 support, and consume much less power, so that means even longer battery life. That is of course, if you can wait. But the Surface Pro 3 is a very nice device. It's been doing quiet well for Microsoft.

If you have any questions about it, just ask!

[Harlan]

Now if you are intrested in the Surface Pro 3, just a heads up, expect a new model early to mid next year, with Intel new CPU. Of course, the same applies for the MacBook Air. All depending on when Intel will release it's new coming up CPU. It is expected that the CPU is faster, and have faster intel graphics solution, possibly DirectX 12 support, and consume much less power, so that means even longer battery life. That is of course, if you can wait. But the Surface Pro 3 is a very nice device. It's been doing quiet well for Microsoft.

If you have any questions about it, just ask!

There's always something to wait for

 

The next mba will have a higher res screen than the current one too

[JosephAQM]

It REALLY depends on what you're using it for. If you want any sensible answer, you're going to have to put some more effort into explaining what you want out of it. I have both a heavy 'gaming' laptop and a MBP and they serve very different purposes.

[j.dirona]

Hell, get a Chromebook.

 

Actually I like you're point here, Chromebooks are great depending on what you are going to use the computer for and if you need you can always upgrade the storage so you can run more programs from the chromebook itself instead of just internet

[shinigamikai]

Get a Windows PC. Just buy anything BUT HP. I've had enough bad experiences with them.

Also Toshiba i had alot of bad experiences with their laptops =( now both me and wife own Asus laptops so far no problems at all.

[BaSkA]

It's a great laptop. If you're a CS student, you just can't stop loving it as it's sofriendly with everything you throw at it.

Oh, and also, you can have Linux, OSX and Windows installed, running pretty much all at the same time, just a finger slide away.

[Dicoray]

If you like the design and how thin and light it is then get it.

[Heisenbleurgh]

if it comes on laptop i think the most matter thing except the specs is how it looks. i'm not a big fan of macbook lineup's design but they look just fine. 

at this price i suggest u Dell XPS 13. somehow i really like it's design. maybe u too

Looks almost the same as the Air but with more rounded corners and a more plastic looking keyboard 

[davidvu396]

If you want that incredible battery life then buy it

Nothing in that price range has as good battery life as this.

 

Basically perfect for text stuff, browsing, coding and other basic stuff. Wouldnt do photo editing or video or any 3d stuff on it though....