Hi Wendy, Welcome. I'm Ray. I too say the Mac book Pro is better. You'll have to buy a DVD drive with the new Mac book Pro also-I believe.
Sent from my mac Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On Feb 2, 2013, at 8:49 AM, Randy George <george.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Wendy, > I hope you're doing well. I'm fairly new to the MacWorld as well, however, I > have quite a bit of experience working on them. I recently bought a MacBook > Pro for the 14 inch display (non-retina display) with a 1 TB hard drive and > eight gigs of RAM and it is absolutely wonderful. I've had It for nearly 6 > months already and haven't noticed one single slowdown. I personally prefer > the old style of RAM and ROM versus flash memory, which you will get on a > MacBook air. The MacBook Pro also has a CD-ROM drive, which the MacBook Air > will not. While most programs are electronic these days, There are some that > still come on CD-ROM. And if you have a collection of DVDs, and would like to > watch them on your computer, you would have to purchase an extra DVD drive to > watch them on a MacBook air. > I hope all this information helps, please feel free to write me off list if > you have any other questions. > Randy > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 2, 2013, at 9:37 AM, "Wendy Alling" <wendall...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I'm new to this list and have a question. Seriously thinking about purching >> a mac, but not sure what I should purchase. I'm looking at either a mac >> book air or mac book pro. What are the differences between the two? Is one >> better than the other? Any thoughts would be appreciated. >> Thanks, >> Wendy Alling >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
