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macbedhead

macrumors member
Original poster
Jun 28, 2010
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I bought the latest 13" last October and I'm thinking of selling it to get the 11" Air plus some nice Altec speakers and a lovely superslim white 1080p AOC 23" LED screen.

http://img840.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110226at715.png/

When I sold my old alu Macbook 2Ghz 2 GB and got the 1.83 Ghz Air there was absolutely no subjective feel of it being slower as I had an SSD on the Macbook.

My question is .......finally (!) with the slower FSB and slower CPU on the 11" , will I notice it being much slower ?.. as it has the same snappy SSD inside as the 13".

I'd hate to be going backwards in a big way with responsiveness...I just use it mainly for web/720p movies...that's it !......no gaming /encoding etc.The other peripherals are pulling me to buy them and where I am , used Airs hold quite a high price considering online retailers undercut the Apple store so I'd just be out of pocket a tiny bit.

I think it will be best of both worlds with the 1080p screen at home and super light 11" notebook which I tend to take with me through the week.
 

kettlecorn

macrumors 6502
Jan 21, 2011
284
0
I went from a MBA 13" Ultimate (2.13 ghz, 4gb ram, 256 ssd) to the BASE 11" (1.4ghz, 2gb of ram, 64gb ssd) and I did not notice much performance decrease. to the point where when I did feel it it was negligible or even mental. I dont use encoding, programing or rendering and just use web, multitasking and videos. The 11" handled HD youtube vids very well.
 

teerexx52

macrumors 68020
May 1, 2005
2,072
173
Florida West Coast
I bought the latest 13" last October and I'm thinking of selling it to get the 11" Air plus some nice Altec speakers and a lovely superslim white 1080p AOC 23" LED screen.

http://img840.imageshack.us/i/screenshot20110226at715.png/

When I sold my old alu Macbook 2Ghz 2 GB and got the 1.83 Ghz Air there was absolutely no subjective feel of it being slower as I had an SSD on the Macbook.

My question is .......finally (!) with the slower FSB and slower CPU on the 11" , will I notice it being much slower ?.. as it has the same snappy SSD inside as the 13".

I'd hate to be going backwards in a big way with responsiveness...I just use it mainly for web/720p movies...that's it !......no gaming /encoding etc.The other peripherals are pulling me to buy them and where I am , used Airs hold quite a high price considering online retailers undercut the Apple store so I'd just be out of pocket a tiny bit.

I think it will be best of both worlds with the 1080p screen at home and super light 11" notebook which I tend to take with me through the week.

I have an ultimate 13" MBA and an 11" Base. I use them both every day. For what I do I cannot tell any difference except the 11" fans don't run as much and it is cooler
 
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