Refurbished MacBook Air 1.6GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 £639.00 @ Apple

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  brookheather11 months, 6 days ago #1Show comment toolsReply

  Direct link for 2GB ram/64GB SSD model:
  
  http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FC968B/A
  
  Direct link to the 4GB ram/128GB SSD model:
  
  http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FC969B/A
  

  
  Edited By: brookheather on Jun 12, 2012 10:15: .
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  horizon-in11 months, 6 days ago #2Show comment toolsReply

  sounds a good price, whats the difference between notebook and this one
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  cthodgson11 months, 6 days ago #3Show comment toolsReply

  Thanks for posting I have just been pricing up refurb apples but didn't realise Apple themselves had a refurb store.
  
  Don't want to hijak the thread but would love opinions on the i5 1.7GHz with intel HD 3000 vs 2.13GHz Intel core duo with Nvidia 320M graphics, both will be 4GB ram. I will be running mostly adobe lightroom and sometimes photoshop concurrently but other than that mostly web use and light gaming........... I always assumed that thei5 would be the best for this but not sure about the intel HD graphics?
  
  thanks in advance.....
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  brookheather11 months, 6 days ago #4Show comment toolsReply

  You might want to go for the new model which has HD4000 as this supports OpenCL which will accelerate Photoshop CS6:
  
  http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,review-32461.html
  
  HD3000 is rated higher than the Nvidia 320M:
  
  http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=GeForce+GT+320M
  

  
  Edited By: brookheather on Jun 12, 2012 12:36
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  kinesin11 months, 6 days ago1 Like #5Show comment toolsReply

  cthodgson

  Thanks for posting I have just been pricing up refurb apples but didn't realise Apple themselves had a refurb store.
  
  Don't want to hijak the thread but would love opinions on the i5 1.7GHz with intel HD 3000 vs 2.13GHz Intel core duo with Nvidia 320M graphics, both will be 4GB ram. I will be running mostly adobe lightroom and sometimes photoshop concurrently but other than that mostly web use and light gaming........... I always assumed that thei5 would be the best for this but not sure about the intel HD graphics?
  
  thanks in advance.....

  
  
  Go for the i5 version, battery life isn't as good as the core-duo is but it's a much more powerful machine
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  cthodgson11 months, 5 days ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  Cheers for the advice guys, much appreciated.......
  
  

  
  Edited By: cthodgson on Jun 12, 2012 18:17
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  rza8911 months, 5 days ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  no thanks
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  shakydaniel10 months, 3 weeks ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  tempting..aghas!! i bought a sony viao i5 for 499 last month, but this is a great deal though

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