I’ve been the proud owner of the latest Apple Macbook Air for about 6 weeks now and I couldn’t be happier – it may be beginning to sound like I work for Apple with the amount of plugs I’ve been giving – I don’t, I promise!
The most amazing bit for me is how it leaves my 27 inch iMac behind. Even this is only 4 months old, yet my Macbook Air beats it in terms of speed at nearly all the tasks I use it for. Why? The SSD.
For those of you that don’t know, SSD stands for Solid State Drive. Most computers still use the standard hard drive containing a spinning disk. As well as being much quicker, SSD’s have no moving parts. This means they are silent, more energy efficient and have much longer life spans. As with most things, the fewer moving parts there are, the less there is that can go wrong! Downside? SSD’s are a fair bit more expensive at the moment, but the prices are getting ever more competitive.
Running some fairly intensive design and development software mainly from the Adobe Creative Suite, the speed of the SSD in the Macbook Air is really noticeable – most of these programs run much faster on my Macbook Air than my iMac.
Verdict? Favourite Apple product so far!
