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? asked in Computers & InternetHardwareLaptops & Notebooks · 7 years ago

13 inch Macbook air enough for me?

I'm looking at the 13 inch MacBook air with 4gb of ram and 128 gb ssd. I need it for my college courses. Taking notes, email, class websites, writing essays, surfing the web, watching YouTube videos etc.

All over the internet I have read about 4gb of ram and how it isn't enough for multi tasking. Apparently multi tasking for the people saying that is 70 safari tabs open with every other app on the laptop open. Seems silly to me given I would at the very most have 3 tabs open on safari and maybe one other app open.

Would 4gb of ram be enough for my use for a prolonged period of time let's say 5 years? If not instead of upgrading the ram to 8gb's I would rather just buy the retina MacBook pro 13 inch.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

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  • luis
    7 years ago

    4gb is preety good for what you're asking but 8gb would be A LOT Faster. I think you should get more Gigabytes since files will use up your memory.

  • codkiller
    7 years ago

    4 gb ram is enough for your needs but 128 GB storage may be a problem if you download lots of files and programs.

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