Apple Mac Air Vs Something else

mad m · 13-07-2020 08:37PM #1

My daughter wants to upgrade her laptop, has a Lenovo yoga, which has done her good for last 5 years. She says she is looking at an Apple mac air. I'm sorry I missed out on that Lenovo deal in bargain alerts few weeks back as I know it would of been a good laptop for the price and what she wants to do with it.

I think she is mad to pay 1200+ euro for an Apple mac air...Trying to convince her otherwise.

Her budget initially was around 600-700. She needs it for college works plus as she is doing radiology might need mid range laptop?,something light and good battery life and wont be a slow machine.

Any help I appreciate

LawBoy2018 · 13-07-2020 08:42PM

mad m wrote: »

My daughter wants to upgrade her laptop, has a Lenovo yoga, which has done her good for last 5 years. She says she is looking at an Apple mac air. I'm sorry I missed out on that Lenovo deal in bargain alerts few weeks back as I know it would of been a good laptop for the price and what she wants to do with it.

I think she is mad to pay 1200+ euro for an Apple mac air...Trying to convince her otherwise.

Her budget initially was around 600-700. She needs it for college works plus as she is doing radiology might need mid range laptop?,something light and good battery life and wont be a slow machine.

Any help I appreciate

I've had a Macbook Air for the last 4 years, it still runs like a dream. It was ideal for college and I still love it. Mine was only €999 at the time and I got a free pair of beats because I was a student. €1200 is quite saucy but I would still reccomend.

Edit: I just checked the apple store there and they have a similar deal: €1155 & you get a free pair of airpods.

https://www.apple.com/ie-edu/shop/buy-mac/macbook-air

Irishphotodesk · 13-07-2020 08:51PM

MacBooks are overpriced for the spec but they are fantastic functionally.

Given her college course she may need to dedicate part of the hard drive to windows OS, it may not still be the case but some college courses have specific software which may not be Mac compatible (it has been about 20years since I encountered this issue so there’s probably a modern day work around).

For documents and stuff like that it will be fine, office for Mac or some of the native Mac software will do.

The MacBook should last her through college.- instead of a MacBook Air, she could consider a secondhand or refurbished MacBook or MacBook Pro (or even an older version air) a higher spec machine could be gotten for cheaper than more newer model.

13-07-2020 10:04PM

this has a premium and durable all-metal chassis,
slick modern design,
good ips screen for good viewing angles and contrast,
good keyboard and trackpad,
fast quad-core cpu,
8gb ram
fast ssd
light at 1.38 kg
good battery life

it will last years and years and is about €600

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HUAWEI-MateBook-2020-Multi-Screen-Collaboration/dp/B085YM9K63/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=matebook+d14&qid=1594674025&sr=8-1

no need to spend more.

(matebook d 14 and magicbook 14 are the same machine just different branding - Huawei owns Honor)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5n2KJLXJ8

denis1501 · 21-10-2020 03:17PM

Glasso, I'm in Italy and I really like that D 14 but the specs are slightly different here, can you take a look? In Italian but computer speak is more or less the same in all languages. Thanks.

https://www.amazon.it/HUAWEI-MateBook-Notebook-Portatile-Processore/dp/B0842PW3VF/ref=sr_1_4?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=9E5BDOXGA9M0&dchild=1&keywords=huawei%2Bmatebook%2B14%2B2020&qid=1603289035&quartzVehicle=93-1171&replacementKeywords=huawei%2Bmatebook%2B2020&sprefix=HUAWEI%2BMateBook%2B%2Caps%2C506&sr=8-4&th=1

21-10-2020 04:47PM

that's the same one on amazon on that link.

3500u cpu with 512 ssd

matebook d 14 = magicbook 14

also can get it from here for cheaper (smaller ssd as bigger ssd option sold out) but with free gifts (e.g. smartwatch etc)

https://www.hihonor.com/italy/product/honor-magic-book14?fromCountry=GLOBAL

salamiii · 21-10-2020 04:53PM

i see dell has 11th gen inspiron 3000

on dell ie for 649 euros it should be good computer

denis1501 · 21-10-2020 08:01PM

glasso wrote: »

that's the same one on amazon on that link.

3500u cpu with 512 ssd

matebook d 14 = magicbook 14

also can get it from here for cheaper (smaller ssd as bigger ssd option sold out) but with free gifts (e.g. smartwatch etc)

https://www.hihonor.com/italy/product/honor-magic-book14?fromCountry=GLOBAL

Just pulled the trigger on this, found a coupon which gave me another 20 euro off as well so paid 579.99 for the laptop, the smartwatch and the router. Well happy with that. Thanks glasso.

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