I need a new laptop.
I’m thinking a few ounces more and bit longer starting time are no big deal for me, so I’m leaning toward the Mac Book Pro for $100 more (for the 13").
What do you think? Experiences? Reasons to choose one over the other?
Id say the pro, my sister has my old pro when I got the air and not a huge doffrence for average user
I remember Bronson Silva telling me he loved his MacBook Air. He had one with all the trimmings, that he uses for work, and said it did pretty much anything he needs it to do, and is light and easy to take with him.
For me, based on my work, I might still go for the MacBook Pro because I know I will have to work with CDs and DVDs from time to time. Or just spend the extra $100 for the matching Superdrive (it’s very thin) to carry around with it when needed.
Don’t need to use optical disks? You might like the Air. Don’t carry it around a lot? Get the heavier one.
Thanks!
Toshiba…
…fine hardware that won’t run Mac OS. 
I have two Macs: one at the office and one at home.
Coming from the UNIX world (SUN) I find the MAC env. not extremely friendly for developpers… many features are just bizarre (one of the worst offender being the finder! You have to run in a french environment to have a taste of strange features of the finder …)
As from the end-user point of view I am not fully convinced by the “user-friendliness” of many Mac App. Example: Itunes the most confusing application I have ever seen! I also had the ill fortune of upgrading to mountain Lion and now following related mails in the mailer is a nightmare!
There’s nothing that a little tweaking won’t do… Hackintoshes have been around for many years now.
But I’ve done enough trolling as it is, even for a Billy thread, so I will make a valid contribution: buy the most expensive, it’s already obsolete but you’ll make more people jealous !
Hanintosh is priceless
Lol, first time I’ve heard that one.
The latest updates changed things around and it confuses me also. But not as much as trying to figure out how my photos are in iCloud when I can’t seem to view them online…
You can make changes to the “Grouping” feature under the View menu, and also in Preferences, in the Viewing tab. I’m not sure if any of those choices gives you the “old school” view though. I’m still trying to figure out which way I like to see them.
Yes, my company has a fleet of 20 Dell Mini 10v netbooks that run OS X. They work great, but unfortunately they’re stuck in time. Running OS updates tends to “break” them and the people who developed the hacks to make those work have moved on to more current hardware.
Won’t officially 
Had to use Mac’s (The All-In-One desktops, i think running Lion…?) While at college (I did music… OSX software is sort of ‘industry standard’ in all creative arts) And I couldn’t get used to it, it’s just… weird 
Coming from a Linux background I thought a UNIX OS might be ok for me, apparently not.
As for topic. Depends what you need - Remember it’s not all about lightweight/portability, it’s about POWER. If you need a more powerful computer (Are you number-crunching constantly, encoding multimedia, playing games, compiling software?) Then the Pro would be a better bet. If you’re just reading emails and watching cat videos and you don’t need the extra power, might as well get the Air and have it’s upsides
Billy spends most of his time posting on this forum and probably some other LGBT related web/community site. So portability is the key, hence the ultrabook.
I didn’t mean ‘the most powerful’ is automatically ‘the best’, I meant that’s what differentiates between the two computers besides their size difference.
That is, if you want ‘more power’ then you’re not going to want the smaller, less-powerful one. But if you don’t need that, and want something smaller/portable (Which is the point of a laptop/notebook/ultrabook whatever you call it surely?) Then you get the smaller one
Though if all you do is post on web forums then I’d wonder why you’re bothering to spend so much on any machine when a cheapo Chromebook or something will do that just fine
Thanks Piece maker! (My good friend Thieum was being humorous)>
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I see other already corrected you on this.