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Apple MacBook Air, MD761B/B, Intel Core i5, (UPGRADED) 256GB Flash Storage, 4GB RAM, 13.3" With 3 Year Warranty @John Lewis (£100 Cheaper Than Apple)
£899John Lewis Deals
Good price, for the upgraded version and saving £100 off the Apple price, plus 3 year warranty seems like a no brainer from me
2014 year model
- rodman
2014 year model
- rodman
I just don't like the idea of having to use an adapter to plug anything in except the charger, at least this has 2 usb ports
4GB more RAM also.
The performance of this will be much better than that new MacBook, however.
Hey I need your advice, reading your comment I think I have made a terrible mistake. I have purchased a late 2013 October mac. Which means it is less than 1.5 years old. The specs are as follows:
- i5 Haswell 2.4GHZ
-8GB
-256GB
I paid £570 for it. It was refurbished. It works perfectly. It was cheaper than every other model of the same type going on eBay and various other websites including apple reseller ones. Sure it doesn't come with 3 years warranty but its covered under my household insurance anyways. The only thing is it didn't come with a box and has an american keyboard.
My friends say I got a bloody good deal as lesser specs are fetching more on eBay but I am not so sure. Advice needed please. Anyone?
Performance is on par with a (high end) 2011 MacBook Air though. 13" Pro is the best option.
The pro is also heavier on the other hand.
I picked the 13" air instead of the Pro because it is much lighter.
If you want a Mac then keep it and use it is my advice.
Yeah but did I get a good deal for the specs?
Which is worth about £5... even if Apple will lie to you that it's worth more...
Yeah I think so, I wouldn't worry about it, I'd use it. You have it now, whether it's a good or bad deal is immaterial, it's a quality tool, use it I bought a late 2014 Mac Mini and I'm happy with it, just getting used to using OSX more really. I got it for some projects I'm doing.
Where are you getting 4GB of DDR3 RAM for £5?
Depends who it was re-furbished by i.e. generic dealer or Apple approved. I fail to see how your household insurance will cover you for hardware breakdowns etc which an Applecare warranty would.
If it's the Macbook Pro Retina, then it's a good price, although personally I would want it with a UK layout and boxed if I was buying pre-owned, but that's just my choice. . If you find the US keyboard layout works for you, that's all that matters.
MBA is really all about the battery life. Lightness and thinness are just additional benefits. I take mine to uni every day where I'm stuck from 9-4 + 3hrs commute return.... I get home and I still have good 40% left to carry on with my coursework.
Don't you poor students have electricity in your homes nowadays?
if you are planning on getting an Air, please please PLEASE choose the 8gb RAM.
Clearly he does, how else would he charge it to 100% before leaving home for uni?
Why, is Mac os that bad?
OS X is amazing handling RAM, especially when compared to a 4gb windows computer
however, the 4gb is the 'bottleneck' of this set up. Paying extra will future proof the laptop, and the extra 4gb RAM will really help when you're browsing with 20+ tabs open.
Being Unix based OS X is good at managing memory. Especially with the new memory compression features that came out with Mavericks however you will soon find even with all this doohickery most of the time a fresh booted OS X machine will be using up more than half yor memory especially when the graphics chip is sharing a hood chunk of it. Run onyx and you'll see what I mean. Realistically I prefer windows management of memory and that's terrible in itself. You also need a good 8GB of ram to not bottleneck the processor bandwidth. As someone said 4GB is quite literally the bottleneck in these machines. This is why I paid 20 quid extra and got an amerocan retina with 256GB and 8GB ram as compared to a UK keyboard on a 128GB machine with 4GB ram.
There's a reason the new machine a start with 8GB. Apple is notorious for crippling their systems and even they think 8GB is the bare minimum these days.
He doesn't say he does that. He does imply that he has to use it on batteries while at home however.
Ohhh no I dont have electricity at home... Spent all the money on my MBA so that I can fit into the hipster wannabe group at uni...Now I just need to get some money to by those dorky looking non prescription glasses in pradamark
Haha, you're right. I wonder where he charges it...
Unless he bought it new and this was his first (and last) day using it?
(_;) time traveller from the past?
I think that's a good rMBP. I have the 2013 next model up. But I got it for £760 brand new at the time when it was the current model. You should stick with it.
Thanks. Do you have the 15 inch? What do you mean next model up? Is yours a 12 inch?
I picked this one up last week brand new still sealed from a reseller on eBay for £849 delivered and well worth every penny if your looking for an upgrade
You got a very good deal, I bought my one a few months after it came out (13 months ago) for £1,059 refurbished, saved £150 from buying it new.
Thank you, that helps a lot, you have no idea. Is your now the same spec in terms of screen also?