What's the difference between MacBook Air and MacBook Pro?

Pro, as its name implies, means "enhanced edition, professional edition". The main difference between Pro and Air is that Pro is more practical and the configuration is much higher, so the performance is much better, and of course the price is more expensive.

Pro uses the standard CPU motherboard of mobile devices, while Air needs good heat dissipation for the sake of protecting hardware, so Air's motherboard CPU uses a customized, low-voltage and low-power version.

For example, Pro is a 2.4G CPU. If the Air is also a 2.4G CPU, the Air will be much slower than the Pro, because the CPU of the Air is a low-voltage and low-power version, and the bus frequency of the motherboard is also set lower. So even with the same configuration, Air will be much slower than Pro.

Secondly, there is another problem. In the case of continuous air for a long time, it will be very hot and suddenly become particularly stuck. In order to protect the hardware, heat dissipation is the main thing. Pro will not. The space of Pro is much larger than air, and the heat dissipation will not be affected, so the performance of hardware does not need to be controlled.

So, if you are a person who often needs to use the computer to transfer projection meetings and go to many places for meetings every day, or you are a person who often needs to use the computer for business trips, or you don't like playing games very much, just playing some ordinary small games or relatively small online games, then I suggest you choose Air.

If you are not in the above situation, you don't buy a computer to show off the appearance of Air, or you put the experience in the first place. If you mainly do it for home entertainment, office, design, games, audio and video, then recommend Pro, because Air can't meet your requirements.

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MacBook Pro

1, MacBook Pro was created by Steve jobs, MacWorld? Notebooks released at the press conference in 2006 were used to replace the PowerBook G4 product line. MacBook Pro and the new iMac (Core) are the first products to be converted to Intel Core.

2.20061October 24th, 10, Apple released Intel? MacBook Pro laptop with Core 2 dual-core processor. On June 8, 2009, the newly designed "Unibody”MacBook Pro notebook computer was released.

3, 20 12 WWDC, phil schiller, SVP, global marketing) Apple released the third generation MacBook Pro, which adopted Retina display and redesigned it with a resolution of 2880x1800,220ppi. The thickness is only 18mm. Then cancel the 17 inch product line.

20 13 At the end of April, Apple updated the Macbook Pro series. Only one Macbook Pro 13 "is not equipped with Retina display, but it is the last laptop model that can replace the memory module (RAM) and hard disk by itself.

Macbook Air

1, MacBook Air was listed as "Top Ten Most Innovative Devices of the Year" by the famous American media Business Insider at the end of 20 13.

20 10 February, Apple released the second generation MBA. This upgrade gives MBA two models: the traditional 13.3 inch and the new 1 1.6 inch. Their biggest feature is that they use flash memory instead of hard disk, and the 64 GB ~ 256 GB flash memory is directly embedded in the motherboard, which saves a huge space for storing batteries and prolongs the service life of 13.3 inch models to 7 hours.

On March 2011July, Apple upgraded its MBA again. The new MBA is equipped with dual-core Intel Core i5 and quad-core Core i7 processors, achieving a leap in performance.

4. After this upgrade, Apple's entry-level notebook Macbook disappeared in official website, leaving only Macbook Air and Macbook Pro in the Mac notebook family. This also means that MBA, an ultra-portable notebook, has the performance and economy of ordinary notebooks.

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