MacBook Pro vs. MacBook Air: How I Made the Choice

摘要

Recently I struggled with a distinctly first-world problem: I had too many computers. There was my main iMac, which I loved. There was my "power" laptop, a mid-2010 15-inch MacBook Pro (with a 1680-by-1050-pixel display and a recently installed 750GB SSD), which I loved. And there was my "light" laptop, a mid-2012 11-inch MacBook Air, which I loved (and which replaced an older 11-inch Air). So what was the problem? I didn't travel often enough to justify owning two laptops. Generally I took the Pro when I needed the extra screen space and the more powerful (or so I thought) CPU; otherwise, I took the Air. But then I also had to remember which one held the files I required for each trip. It was a horrid setup, and it needed fixing.