If you are like me, and have a love for the Macbook Series than you are really going to like this post. I am currently on a 2 GHz intel core DUO Macbook (Black) with 1GB of ram. I am going to go over the 3 notebooks so you can decide which one is best for you.

MacBook Air

The MacBook air, probably one of the slickest designs ever. Coming in at only 3 pounds, 3 quarters of an inch, and a beautiful 13.3″ display. Lets not forget the price tag of $1800! Geez Apple Products are expensive!

If you use your NoteBooks for business, Video/Photo editing, storing music and photos… I would strongly recommend on not considering this. You only get 80GB to work with, so lets do some simple addition. You got 10 - 20 GB for Applications. That gives you lets say 65GB left, lets say you want to put some videos and some photos and some music. Thats about 30 GB. Documents, thats about another 2 GB. So you got about 25 GB left of free room. My MacBook is 120GB and thats still not enough.

This machine doesn’t even have an optical drive, so you cannot put in your CD’S and DVD’s in unless you use Apples cool software that lets you “share” another computers optical drive. Now, why do i say don’t get this for photo/video editing. Mainly because of the processor speed. Yeah I did forget to mention that you have 2GB of ram, but thats the max you can have, and programs like aperture and Final Cut Pro require a lot out of a computer, and the MacBook air just isn’t going to get it.

Now, I talked about the bad stuff about the MacBook Air, so surely there is Goods. Well Just look at it, and you will see for yourself. This machine is beautiful, I guarantee you, that about 90% of you have a bigger keyboard bigger than this. The portability is also a huge on the plus side. You can carry it pretty much everywhere and not have a pain in the butt in carrying this thing.

Now if your just somebody who already has a main computer, and needs a portable notebook just for simple Web Browsing, Email, and Talking then I would suggest getting this notebook if it is in your budget.

Macbook

The Macbook just recently got a update, they get bigger processor speeds and a brand new multi-touch trackpad. I have got one of the older versions, so sadly I don’t get to talk about their new track pad =[

The Macbook Is a really amazing computer at such a cheap price. This one coming in at $1100. Funny huh? A way more powerful computer for $700 cheaper. I have had this computer for about 2 1/2 years now and I absolutely love it. I got no problems, i did download windows XP with apples Bootcamp software, but realized that I was using Mac OSX way more, so I decided to take XP off. So anyways, lets talk Macbook.

From my experience, this is just the downgraded version of the Macbook Pro, I’ve done photo editing, video editing and have everything on here. Did I mention this is my main computer? Now, of course your not going to get the same results when handling these huge tasks, it will be a workload for your processor and ram compared to Macbook Pro or a Mac Pro, but it gets the job done. So let’s say your burning a Movie to your Macbook, it will take about 2 hours, compared to a MacBook Pro which can get done in just under an hour. Apple just upgraded their processors for the Macbook so I’m sure you can get better results now.

Some things I do notice that I do not like are a few things, the battery. For about a year now my battery has gone bad. I know I should get a new one but I just never got around to it. My battery only last about an hour on full charger. It will be saying I got 45 minutes left, and within 10 minutes all the juice be sucked out.

So who do I recommend this notebook for? Pretty Much anyone, its great for any business person. The only people I would not recommend this for is Video/Photo editors because of the demand of power the software and person need. And in my opinion, if you do decide to go with the Macbook, do not go black. Yeah I love the color, but I do not like how the grease shows up on the keys and trackpad, and plus you have to pay a lot more money just for a different color.

Macbook Pro

The MacBook Pro is in my opinion the most powerful notebook out there! It has it all, heck I bet it is faster than some desktops that people are running on. The MacBook Pro is the next notebook that I plan on purchasing once I get enough money to sell my current MacBook and upgrade to the MacBook pro.

So what’s so great about the MacBook Pro? Well, you can get amazing processor speeds, 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo, which is the max processor you can have, which is amazing for a notebook. It’s great for editing videos and photos. You as well have the option to upgrade to 4GB of ram with a 300GB HD This is why I want one, I like to edit videos and this would help tremendously.

The backlit keyboard is great, it looks really good when typing at night. You as well get a bigger display, you have the options with 15″ and 17″ models. The aluminum casing looks really good too. One reason why the MacBook pro is better than all the other Notebooks… the ports!!! You have way more ports than you do on the macbook and like 100 times more than the macbook air. You have more options and the ability to hook up the computer to a 30″ Apple Cinema Display

Other Thoughts

I’ve been a mac user for about 10 years now, and I love it. Apple is by far way better than Windows, there’s less viruses and way more friendly user interface. If there’s some advice you’d like on purchasing an Apple NoteBook. DO NOT upgrade your ram. Apple is known for their simplicity and the ability to make everything easier for the user. So this means that instead of spending $400 for their ram, you can buy $100 of extra ram and upgrade it yourself, which can also be kinda fun. Mac Sales is probably one of the best apple retail sites on the net, they make it extremely easy to buy products for you mac.

So what apple Notebook do you have? Do you enjoy it, or do you not enjoy it? Got any other thoughts that you would like to add?