[nabs-l] Mac book air or mac book pro?

[Kathryn Webster]

Thanks so much for you guys' input...Greg, would you mind if I e-mailed you off list in order to ask you some questions about your Wake Forrest experience?

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On May 24, 2013, at 5:50 PM, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just to chime in on one of the things Greg said.  I don't have a mac,
> but I use an HP ultrabook that like the Macbook Air does not have a CD
> drive.  Should you decide to get the Air, not having a CD slot
> shouldn't be much of an issue as long as you don't use your computer
> to play CDs all the time.  As everything is primarily online these
> days I haven't really needed to do anything with my external CD drive
> I bought, although having one of those can be handy in case the
> occasion comes when you need to rip or burn something.  As a student I
> appreciate that my computer is pretty light and doesn't take up a lot
> of room at all in my backpack too.
> 
> On 5/24/13, Greg Aikens <gpaikens at gmail.com> wrote:
>> First off, great choice of school.  I graduated from Wake Forest in 06 and
>> really enjoyed my time there.
>> 
>> As to the differences between the macbook pro and the air, the pro is larger
>> and costs less for things like a large hard drive etc.  I use a Macbook pro
>> 13" for all of my personal computing and it does everything I need it to.  I
>> also used it in graduate school for research and writing papers etc., but I
>> will tell you that at least for now, Jaws and Microsoft Word are a more
>> effective solution for writing papers etc. than are Pages and Mac.
>> 
>> The Air is so nice because it is so thin and light.  You give up things like
>> having a CD/DVD drive, but that may not be important.  It also costs more to
>> get the same kind of hard drive storage that you would get on a laptop.
>> When I priced them out a year and a half ago, the starting model for the
>> Macbook Air only had 64 gb of storage, where the starter for the Pro had 500
>> gb.  They were similarly priced.  If you have another laptop though, this
>> difference may not matter.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.  Best of luck as you start next year.
>> 
>> Go Deacs!
>> 
>> -Greg
>> 
>> 
>> On May 23, 2013, at 9:03 AM, Kate <kathrynwebster at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Good morning all! I was just wondering your thoughts regarding the Mac
>>> book pro 13-inch verses the 11-inch mac book air? I will be beginning my
>>> undergraduate study at Wake Forest University next year and want to have a
>>> mac for basic needs such as Facebook, E-mail, research, iTunes, etc. Wake
>>> Forest provides a PC to us for excel and other academic purposes. What are
>>> your thoughts? Thank you in advance.
>>> Kathryn Webster
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> Kaiti
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