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Poppy

I have a MacBook Air with the same spec you are looking at. I could write a whole page on why you should buy it but I will just say, if you can justify the cost then get it, you won't regret it.

The one thing I will say is it's blazing fast. It is faster than a lot of desktops and heavy gaming laptops. Now if you consider it is a very thin and light notebook, it really has no right to be this fast!

If you for some extraordinary reason don't like it during the first 14 days you can even get a total refund, no questions asked.

The ability to use it anywhere is very useful I agree. Unless you do gaming (I don't believe you do) it should last all day for you on a charge as well.

Please do let us know Poppy

256GB or 512GB is simply the amount of storage space. So when you save things like documents, photos, videos and such. Which you need will depend on what/how much stuff you store on your computer -  personally I use very little storage, I haven't even used up 100GB yet.

The RAM is what I'd probably upgrade, if anything. The laptop comes with 8GB as standard which will "do" but 16GB is a decent upgrade and will future proof the machine if you intend to keep it for several years.

Edit: just to add the RAM (Random Access Memory) is what lets the computer run programs, every program uses a certain amount, and over time better more complicated updates to apps come out which tend to use more RAM. Also if you run several things at once each one will use a bit each so you if this is something you do you will notice the benefit of having more.

Second Edit : I just realised Apple tend to call it something like "Unified Memory" instead of RAM but it's basically the same thing.

Here's my memory usage. This is with just Safari (running Scope and 2 other tabs), Mail and Pages (Apple's version of Word) open.

(I have 16GB on my laptop.)

As you can see I am indeed not quite using 8GB but would be dangerously close to using it up if my laptop only had 8GB.

Nothing, it's a figure of speech.

I just think Apple providing 8GB on a laptop that costs well over a grand is a bit of an insult. Paying £200 to future proof it by several years is not much in the grand scheme of things.

I know from your previous posts aimed at me that you just don't like me so I'm not going to get into an argument, I am just trying to help Poppy make the best decision..