MacBook Air or MacBook Pro

[Mike69]

I need to replace my ($300) 7 year old windows laptop and would like to go with a Mac. Is the MacBook Pro worth the extra money? I mainly surf the web, pay bills, keep pics and music on my laptop. Here are the 2 that I am looking at. Any advice would be great. Thanks...

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-macbook-air-latest-model-13-3-display-intel-core-i5-4gb-memory-128gb-flash-storage-silver/1581921.p?id=1219056464137&skuId=1581921

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/apple-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-latest-model-13-3-display-8gb-memory-128gb-flash-storage-silver/8532557.p?id=1219343246941&skuId=8532557

[Craizie]

My advice is to not buy a Mac.

[Mach1]

Love my Macbook Pro, that being said I love my wifes air too, the additional IO and retina screen are what sells me on it. What do you plan on using it for or connecting to it?

[Mike69]

Love my Macbook Pro, that being said I love my wifes air too, the additional IO and retina screen are what sells me on it. What do you plan on using it for or connecting to it?

All I really use it for is surfing the web, paying bills, storing pics & music. I sometimes use it to play music through my DJ Sound System when we have house parties or get together at friends or family places.

[Ruffdaddy]

Why the fuck would you spend that much just to use it like a netbook?

[jdgregory84]

Refurbished pro for $820. https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-app...k-pro-laptop-3

I'd agree with others though, why spend double on a mac when you're just using it for basic BS?

[racrguy]

Just buy a tablet and be done with it, save yourself a GANG of money, plus the form factor is way more convenient for walking around with one at the house.

[BLAKE]

There kind of isn't a wrong decision there. For what you're using it for, the Air is solid. I use one every day for work and love it.

My advice is to not buy a Mac.

We'll go ahead and add that one to the list:

[x] hates Macs

Edit: might as well put the whole list here too:

[x] hates Star Wars
[x] hates working on cars
[x] hates red accents on cars

[abecx]

Why would you want a macbook for those simple tasks? Save yourself some money and get any laptop with an SSD.

I have a macBook Air, macBook Pro, iPad air, iPad mini, the macBook air is amazing, but my pro is pretty much a full fledged desktop replacement. Its WAY more powerful than my air.

iPad mini though is probably the most used device, damn thing is perfect.

[dcs13]

My current Mac Book Pro is 10 years old and works perfect. I'm heavy into video and photo stuff. I have drug this thing all over the world and back.I never had a PC last more than 24 months. I will never buy a PC laptop.
I'm gonna buy a new MacBook pro next month.THe old one will be relegated to internet duty until it craps out.

[juiceweezl]

Why would you want a macbook for those simple tasks? Save yourself some money and get any laptop with an SSD.

I have a macBook Air, macBook Pro, iPad air, iPad mini, the macBook air is amazing, but my pro is pretty much a full fledged desktop replacement. Its WAY more powerful than my air.

iPad mini though is probably the most used device, damn thing is perfect.

OP, listen to what most are saying -- save the money. You can buy one of those ASUS transformer deals for sub $300 and have more than enough power to do all that you said. I upgraded my work laptop about 2 years ago and got to keep my old one. It's now approaching 7 years old, is a dual core processor with 4 GB RAM, and it runs Windows 8.1 like a champ. My 7th grade son uses it for homework, web surfing, minecraft, Netflix, etc. without any glitches or maintenance on my part. Heck, I'm sitting here wiping and reinstalling windows on another 6+ year old laptop that will do everything you mentioned as good as a $600 machine in the store today. Save the coin!

[A_A_G]

I need to replace my ($300) 7 year old windows laptop and would like to go with a Mac. Is the MacBook Pro worth the extra money? I mainly surf the web, pay bills, keep pics and music on my laptop. Here are the 2 that I am looking at. Any advice would be great. Thanks...

Buy an iPad Air 2. I do all that on mine and it is super quick now that the iPad was upgraded with 2gb of RAM and a tri-core processor.

I have thought about getting a MacBook Pro but with an iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6+, I just don't see a need for one.

[CexMashean]

Holy mother of fuck. The non-mac laptop I could buy starting at $899 would punch the ever loving fucking dick of the Air into the dirt. What the fuck is wrong with people?

[Mach1]

Holy mother of fuck. The non-mac laptop I could buy starting at $899 would punch the ever loving fucking dick of the Air into the dirt. What the fuck is wrong with people?

When I got my Macbook pro in early 2014 nothing could compare at the time, build quality, size, battery life, 2 mDP out and 1 HDMI out, usb 3.0 across the board, fastest PCIe SSD on the market, and OSX>Win8

[CexMashean]

When I got my Macbook pro in early 2014 nothing could compare at the time, build quality, size, battery life, 2 mDP out and 1 HDMI out, usb 3.0 across the board, fastest PCIe SSD on the market, and OSX>Win8

Bullshit.