After a bit of advice if anyone has one.

My girlfriend just ordered a Mac Air and we got it for £850 from argos, (it's on offer and i get discount) having a look today i noticed theres a 2010 version and 2011. I didnt realise this and it looks like theres quite a difference in speed.

It was on offer because it's the 2010 version, its the 13 inch 2GB Ram 128GB HD, has anyone got one or used one? It's quite alot cheaper than the full £1099 the 2011 one is, just don't know if its still worth getting the newer faster model? :S

it appears the new one has 4GB of ram i'd go for this one as you'll find 2GB may be quite limiting, remember on the Macbook air you can't upgrade the Ram as the modules are soldered onto the motherboard so what it comes with is what it has for life.

it appears the new one has 4GB of ram i'd go for this one as you'll find 2GB may be quite limiting, remember on the Macbook air you can't upgrade the Ram as the modules are soldered onto the motherboard so what it comes with is what it has for life.

Ah right i didnt know that, decided to cancel the mac air and go for the 13 inch pro, it's £859.00 with student discount with apple.

Ah right i didnt know that, decided to cancel the mac air and go for the 13 inch pro, it's £859.00 with student discount with apple.

i've got a 13 inch pro, upgraded it to 8gb of ram in 5 mins and it cost me £40 excellent machine, and its hardly a big laptop so you aren't losing much having it over an air

i've got a 13 inch pro, upgraded it to 8gb of ram in 5 mins and it cost me £40 excellent machine, and its hardly a big laptop so you aren't losing much having it over an air

Ah right i didn't know it was that easy! I take it its much quicker with double the ram?

She's fed up with her vaio so going mac, it's going to be a learning curve! :p

Switched from WIndows to Mac last year, its very easy to adapt to and OSX is a joy to use compared to windows. I only use MS Windows at work now.

She's fed up with her vaio so going mac, it's going to be a learning curve!

If you have a copy of Windows you can also install that on the Mac and run a mixed or switchable OS environment.

I think the newer spec machine will also have a Thunderbolt interface which you can use to connect to external displays and storage devices (works much faster than USB if you can find a peripheral that has the connection).

Edited 18 October, 201114 yr by hertsnminds

I swapped over to the Mac platform 5 years ago and have now built my collection into a 24inch iMac, and iPad 2 & the iPhone 4.

I'm skipping the iPhone 4s and going straight for the iPhone 5 next year

They're both Macs :wonder:

I've just ordered a new 13" Mac Book Pro (new Model) from Apple, education discount, arrives Monday

I have one of the first MacBook Pro 13" aluminium from 2009. It is a great laptop. Moved to macs when they went to intel chips in 2006. Now have 4 20" iMacs and the MB Pro in the family. Didn't realise it was so cheap to up the memory. I will look into upping it from 4 to 8gb.

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They use the same RAM modules as regular PC laptops. Don't be tempted to buy RAM from Apple, it's stupidly expensive. I popped an extra 1Gb into my iMac for a tenner earlier in the year.

They use the same RAM modules as regular PC laptops. Don't be tempted to buy RAM from Apple, it's stupidly expensive. I popped an extra 1Gb into my iMac for a tenner earlier in the year.

I bought a second hand 2008 iMac 2.4ghz 20" cheap and threw 4gb of crucial memory at it. Runs much better now. That is the max it will take unfortunately. I have put Lion on it and on the MBPro. MBPro is faster than my 2.4GHz - its a 2.53ghz, but seems much faster than the 0.13Ghz difference. Never looked to see why.

I bought a second hand 2008 iMac 2.4ghz 20" cheap and threw 4gb of crucial memory at it. Runs much better now. That is the max it will take unfortunately. I have put Lion on it and on the MBPro. MBPro is faster than my 2.4GHz - its a 2.53ghz, but seems much faster than the 0.13Ghz difference. Never looked to see why.

Hi Rockhopper, fancy meeting you here

I do get out quite a bit, but only discovered this section recently :lol:

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Upgraded the MacBook Pro now with 8GB as recommended above, also installed a 128GB SSD, as that is all I need on my laptop. Ordered a USB case so I can use my old 250GB HDD as an external USB drive.