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Is this macbook air worth it?

sterreprop
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http://www.bcc.nl/computer/laptop/apple-laptop/apple-macbook-air-13-inch-core-i7-2.2ghz-4gb-128gb(100888)

 

I'm planning on using it for some editing (photo and video) on the go, Office and browsing the web.

The same macbook is €1219 on apple's website. So is it worth it?

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how much money do you can spend on it??

if you can buy an macbook pro an air is not very good in editing i have one by myself.

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and if you dont have the money to upgrade to an pro a least buy a version with more than 128gb because it's full in no time

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If I consider that there are Acer notebooks available with an i7, GTX 960, 1TB SSHD and 8GB of RAM for under 1000€ - No. That thing is utterly garbage and no one should even consider to buy one.

But then again it has the premium quality of an Apple product. It'll work for what you want to do with it, even tho I doubt the 4GB of RAM are enough, but you'll pay a premium for the shiny Apple logo.

 

 

 

 

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NO!

I'm writing from a 2012 Mba and its battery is dead.

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Well for photo and video editing you will be utterly disapointed performance-wise.

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Well for photo and video editing you will be utterly disapointed performance-wise.

 

Even for very light iMovie stuff (1080p)? I'm not going to use it for professional work.

CPU: i5-3570K GPU: Sapphire R9 280X Vapor OC MOBO: Asus P8Z77-M RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 16GB. PSU: Corsair CX600M CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 7 rev 2 


SSD: 1x Kingston HyperX 3K SSD 120GB, 1x Crucial M4 128GB HDD: WD Caviar Black 1TB


 

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