I agree with donikatz. Unless you are doing heavy duty commercial level work using Apple's Pro tools or you are doing huge photoshop images, a MacBook should have plenty of compute power for 70% or more of laptop users. Two caveats
  1. Max out the RAM (and buy it from someone like Other World Computing or Crucial but not from Apple as they are too proud of their RAM).
  2. Get the biggest hard drive Apple offers, if you don't need it now, you will need it next year or the year after.
and those are the same caveats I would apply no matter whether your were getting a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro.


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