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Last year as part of our review process, we took a good long look at both laptops, picked the best and worst things about each, and made purchasing recommendations based on what you need in your 13-inch Mac laptop. What was once an easy recommendation has gotten more difficult. They’re even priced in the same ballpark.
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Both use modern dual-core CPUs with some of Intel’s better integrated GPUs.
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#Used macbook air 13 inch pro#
The Air has become more powerful and less compromised, while the Pro has slimmed down and dumped features like user-replaceable RAM and its Ethernet jack. In the last two-to-three years, that gap has narrowed substantially. One was bulkier but pretty fast and user-serviceable, while the other was thin-and-light to a fault, arriving with anemic low-power CPUs and GPUs, slow hard drives, and no easy means to upgrade. Further Reading Hands-on with the Retina MacBook: One-port wonderThe 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 13-inch MacBook Air were once very different computers that served very different needs.