MacBook Air or Pro

DrJohnZoidberg said:
Nothing too hectic but some memory hogs. I always have both Chrome and Firefox open with numerous tabs, Outlook, Netbeans (don't judge me - this uses a crapload of memory), MAMP, Excel with large 100K+ spreadsheets.

I don't use Photoshop but I'm pretty sure it would be fine for most tasks.

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Do yourself a favour and drop Outlook.


Get rid of Excel as well and switch to Numbers while you are at it.


Microsoft software on OSX is SHOCKING!

I despise it when people come to me saying how unstable Macs are, when in fact it's their insistence on ****ty Microsoft software that is the problem.


Granted I always stuck to the suffering as well since I couldn't get my head around iWork, but the new version is a hell of a lot more easy to deal with and given the past two weeks I think I've broken the "logic barrier".
 
SauRoNZA said:
Do yourself a favour and drop Outlook.


Get rid of Excel as well and switch to Numbers while you are at it.


Microsoft software on OSX is SHOCKING!

I despise it when people come to me saying how unstable Macs are, when in fact it's their insistence on ****ty Microsoft software that is the problem.


Granted I always stuck to the suffering as well since I couldn't get my head around iWork, but the new version is a hell of a lot more easy to deal with and given the past two weeks I think I've broken the "logic barrier".
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What is the compatibility with excel and exchange servers.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Do yourself a favour and drop Outlook.


Get rid of Excel as well and switch to Numbers while you are at it.


Microsoft software on OSX is SHOCKING!

I despise it when people come to me saying how unstable Macs are, when in fact it's their insistence on ****ty Microsoft software that is the problem.


Granted I always stuck to the suffering as well since I couldn't get my head around iWork, but the new version is a hell of a lot more easy to deal with and given the past two weeks I think I've broken the "logic barrier".
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Yes, the Office products on OS X are not good but nothing comes close to Excel and I keep returning to Outlook because nothing else works quite as well with Exchange. Outlook actually doesn't use very much memory at all, Firefox uses about 5 times more memory than Outlook.
 
sorry to hijack this thread guys, am thinking of buying the 13inch mbp 2013 512gb model and was wondering about warranty.
If I purachsed the mac from istore/digicape and then buy applecare from amazon USA (purely for the international warranty) would it work for my mac purchased here?
 
mith said:
sorry to hijack this thread guys, am thinking of buying the 13inch mbp 2013 512gb model and was wondering about warranty.
If I purachsed the mac from istore/digicape and then buy applecare from amazon USA (purely for the international warranty) would it work for my mac purchased here?
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Last time I checked all Mac laptops already have an international warranty.
 
bwana said:
Last time I checked all Mac laptops already have an international warranty.
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Sorry I meant an extended international warranty.
From what I inderstad If I buy icare from the istore here I believe it is not an international warranty.
 
roughiain said:
What is the compatibility with excel and exchange servers.
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I haven't used Exchange in 5 years so can't comment there, but I do believe Apple Mail integrates quite happily now.

As for iWork I haven't run into issues unlike the previous version. Only irritation being that it wants to default to its own format so you have to Export to Excel if you want that format.

Integration with iCloud is superb though.
 
SauRoNZA said:
I haven't used Exchange in 5 years so can't comment there, but I do believe Apple Mail integrates quite happily now.

As for iWork I haven't run into issues unlike the previous version. Only irritation being that it wants to default to its own format so you have to Export to Excel if you want that format.

Integration with iCloud is superb though.
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Mail is okay with Exchange but not great.
 
Interesting. Because last I used Exchange on a Mac Outlook was pretty bad as well.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Why not just get Digicape's own version of AppleCare?
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Digicape's extended warranty [DPP] is for within SA only and not international.
I dont mind the buying the macbook here but I need an international extended warranty and it seems icare or dpp do not offer that and Applecare which is not sold locally is the only option.
 
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went to the istore sandton today and no stock of the 13inch pro 512gb model. :(
 
mith said:
Digicape's extended warranty [DPP] is for within SA only and not international.
I dont mind the buying the macbook here but I need an international extended warranty and it seems icare or dpp do not offer that and Applecare which is not sold locally is the only option.
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In the past I know of people buying AppleCare with their MacBooks on the US before flying back home and then being unable to activate from SA.

Oddly enough a recent repair of mine through Digicape was followed up with an AppleCare survey, so I wonder how deeply integrated they are these days.
 
Hemps said:
Tjoe I almost bought it, thanks Dr
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I would honestly not buy any laptop going forward with a pre-Haswell chip. The battery life improvements make an amazing difference.

I see there a handful of 2013 MBA models on Gumtree for between R8500 and R10k. Although these only have the entry level 128GB SSD.
 
Only saw that afterwards so deleted post, we really get screwed over in SA on apple products.
 
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