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Ask HN: New MacBook Air or Windows laptop?

Don't wanted to sound silly but I'm confused a little bit and thought of clarifying it with the great HN community.

I have a 2008 MacBook Unibody and have upgraded to SSD and bumped up the memory and is doing decently well but after 5 years of usage and the lure of the lightness of MacBook Air and the lightning fast SSD speed I heard on the new beast from Apple I'm on the edge of shelling out some $$$$ but wasn't sure if it's worth it now.

My contention points were, - current MacBook Unibody is running decently fine even though I crave for more speed - had a Windows laptop at home that just got toast with a coffee spill

Don't know if I should be shelling out $$$ on a Windows laptop for now and wait for another MacBook Air update later or just give the current MacBook to the family and move on with the new MacBook Air. I know the later would add one more $ sign to the bottomline.

For those of you who ask what I do with it, I do develop web and mobile apps (2 of them on the AppStore, free apps BTW) with it. So it's putting to good use but not sure if I have to take the Windows route or the MacBook Air route, even though I personally prefer the MacBook Air route but would be nice to have a Windows machine at home too, rite?

7 points askar 13 years ago 12 comments

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