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More recently, Apple has a 2 "air" product: This laptop MacBook Air and new iPad Air. Updated MacBook Air in June and is now supplied with a series Haswell processors, which enable working Eyram up to 12 hours without recharging. iPad Air has become much thinner and lighter, while retaining full 9.7-inch Retina display and got a new super-fast 64-bit chip A7.
Both products - it is very easy and long-lasting devices, but one of them has a full keyboard for text input and desktop OS X, whereas the second operates under iOS 7 controlled on the basis of multi-touch interface, and has excellent display Retina. Both devices - it's very cool products that can give odds to any of the competitors.
But if you compare them with each other, it is not so simple. Many buyers often difficult to make a choice. It is for them - our today's article. It will help you understand what kind of device you really need and for what tasks they are best suited.
Price
The price of iPad Air starts at $ 500 for a younger model with 16 GB of memory without cellular communication module and is limited to 929 dollars for a "full ground meat" - 128 GB of memory and a cell module. Choice is wide enough, in fact, you have 8 different options to match your wallet.
With MacBook Air 11 "all the easier. There are two models - with 128 GB for $ 999 and 256 per 1199. But also you can choose a better processor, RAM and hard drive. Top solution with a 1.7-GHz processor, 512 GB SSD and 8 GB of RAM will cost $ 1799.
screen size and image quality
iPad Air is supplied with the 9.7-inch display Retina resolution of 2048 × 1536 aspect of 4: 3. The pixel density - 264 pixels per inch. This is the biggest display, which currently supplies Apple with devices running iOS. Though the pixel density here does not hold out to the iPhone indicators (326 ppi), this screen can still be considered a very high quality, especially among this category of devices as plashety.
11-inch MacBook Air has a 16: 9 screen with a resolution of 1366x768 pixels and a density of 135 pixels per inch. In contrast to the MacBook Pro, Apple has not yet supplied with Eyry Retina- displays. Matrix - LED, but not IPS.
It turns out that the MacBook Air - larger screen, but the picture quality on the iPad Air above.
processing power and battery life
iPad Air is equipped with the latest 64-bit processor architecture A7 ARM-8, video accelerator PowerVR 6 series and coprocessor M7, which is responsible for reading iPad displacement in space. Apple announced the new iPad Air is able to work up to 10 hours without recharging web browsing and video playback.
11-inch MacBook Air has an onboard Intel Haswell processor with Intel HD 5000 integrated graphics. Apple promises that the Air live 9 hours of web surfing time and 8 hours of video playback.
iPad Air has a damn good processor, which can safely be called a processor desktop-class, but it's still a mobile chip. MacBook Air in this regard - a full desktop with the "adult" chip, despite the fact that Air imprisoned for mobile and not tied to a single place of work. In addition, iPad Air live on a single charge longer than the MacBook.
input Methods
In iPad Air used multi-touch screen, by which the control device. You can use all available gestures for the iPad controls: pinch-to-zoom, swipe, multitasking gestures. To enter text using the virtual keyboard, but if you wish you can connect and external bluetooth-keyboard.
MacBook Air does not have a touch screen, but it has a full-size physical keyboard and large multi-touch trackpad, which allows you to use many gestures of iOS.
With an external keyboard, the iPad Air can be used for typing almost as much as the MacBook. But the MacBook has a trackpad, which greatly simplifies navigation for OS X with the help of gestures.
In my opinion, MacBook Air is better suited to writing copy than the iPad. Yes, you can connect an external keyboard to the tablet, but the use of "native" buttons Air is much more convenient.
Connectors and external ports
iPad Air Lightning-equipped connector, with it, can be connected to iPad various external adapters, e.g. SD-card reader or an adapter for an external monitor. But unfortunately, so add to your iPad extra space on your hard disk does not work, at least not without jailbreaking.
11-inch MacBook Air has two USB 3.0 ports and a combined connector Thunderbolt-mini display port. Such a set of MacBook lets you easily work with most computer periphery: mouse, external monitors, flash drives, external hard drives and so on.
If you plan to work hard on the outside periphery, then the MacBook Air, of course, preferable.
OS
iPad Air running on the single-player full-screen iOS 7 is not providing access to the device's file system. However, iOS 7 is incredibly easy to use and does not require time to master: all understandable on an intuitive level.
All Mac, including the 11-inch MacBook Air, running a desktop operating system OS X (the latest version - Mavericks). This multi-user, multi-page Operating System uses the power of UNIX and 3 GUI platform. It is not as accessible to ordinary people as iOS 7, but getting used to the OS X does not require too much time.
iOS 7 adheres to the concept of "less is better". You do not have all the functionality that is on OS X, but iOS is able to solve many zadachprosche than desktop.
Applications and services
iPad Air operates with a store of mobile applications App Store, which has more than one million applications for any occasions, including nearly 500,000 applications specifically tailored to the iPad. Most eppov are free or have a symbolic price tag of a few dollars, but third-party software loaded from the App Store, to launch the iPad Air, you can not.
The 11-inch MacBook Air has a Mac App Store - an analogue of the app store for iOS, but here "Big" desktop-class applications: Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, Final Cut Pro, Logic and so Further. You can also run applications downloaded from anywhere, not just from the Mac App Store.
iPad Air and the MacBook Air can boast a wide variety of applications at a relatively low price. However, on the MacBook Air is a set of applications that are not available on the iPad Air just because of lack of performance of the latter. And the iPad, and MacBook, work with iCloud, Dropbox, Skydrive and other popular cloud services. However, OS X, they have a much deeper integration.
For whom is suitable iPad Air
iPad Air is perfect for those who repulses the "big" computer, with its more complex structure, as well as those who simply can not afford a full-fledged destkop. MacBook Air is much more powerful, but the iPad Air is more simple to use and is available for almost any of us. If you are lost at a keyboard and mouse, the iPad Air - your choice.
iPad Air can be useful for those who want to use the computer anywhere, not only in the room, but is somewhere on the road. With tasks such as games, simple graphics and video editors, a simple word processing and email, iPad Air cope with a bang, but the program requires more or less serious processing power, the iPad Air, alas, not on the teeth.
And for someone the perfect choice - MacBook Air
MacBook Air is necessary for those who require the full power of the computer. Who wants to comfortably work in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, Final Cut or Logic, Xcode, in the end - everyone who needs a high quality on the desktop-class, your choice - MacBook Air.
Among other things, the MacBook Air can be easily connected to an external screen, at the same time it is also easy to take with them, put in an ordinary bag. Due to its ports, it can work with most of the outer periphery, so that the MacBook - it's a good full-fledged workstation.
Still have not decided?
For someone, the most important thing in a device - it's mobility and therefore they prefer iPad. Others need a full-fledged computer, and so they choose the MacBook. Still others compromise and try to make maximum use of iPad, or MacBook Air to make the most mobile. And someone buys both devices and it is quite logical, because these are different categories of products for different applications.
If you have not been able to choose, we are ready to help you. Leave your comments in the questions and supplements to this guide, let us work together and help each other :-)
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