Chris, great point! I agree. Always over-buy if you can!… While I think the machine he's looking at would be adequate for what he wants now, longevity is always really important!
Thanks, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote: Depends a bit on how long you plan to keep the thing. Today's power machines become tomorrow's low-end door stop. Because you can't upgrade memory on these units you might want to over-buy today so you'll get more life out of the machine. So if it were me, I'd spring for the 8GB RAM as you won't be able to make that upgrade later. The SSD, at least according to OWC, is replacible on the 2012 MacBook Air. CB On 3/6/13 12:37 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > I'm seriously considering purchasing a MAC Air 11 inch with the only upgrade > being a 128 flash drive from the default 64 GB flash drive. > > It has: > 1.7 I5 processor > 4GB 1600 MHZ ram > 128GB flash drive > > My questions: > is this sufficient to do basic internet, mail etc plus iWork apps like Pages > and Numbers? or, do I need a ram upgrade to 8GB? I'm not looking for a power > machine, just something to do basic stuff plus simple word processing and > spreadsheet during travel. > > the 13 inch has a 1.8 I5 processor with upgrades to I7 series, but I'm not > yet convinced that is necessary for my needs. > > Any thoughts or ideas, educated or otherwise welcome. > > -- > 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. > > -- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- 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.
