<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On 21 Jul 2011, at 14:00, mc schraefel <<a href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font></div></blockquote>Ok after your thoughts yesterday, why the 11??<div><br></div><div>I'm leaning that way for a project machine but concerned about monitoring graphic feeds of heart brain etc</div><div><br></div><div>But since I have to run behind someone with it maybe weight is the better side of the trade off</div></div></blockquote><br><div>Two main reasons for leaning to an 11" Air:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Portability. This laptop is going to be travelling forwards and backwards across the city every day. Whilst I get the bus to work in the morning, I walk home afterwards, and it is a distance of several miles. This makes me favour the 11" Air over the similarly priced 13" Pro, despite the loss of processing power, storage, battery life and an optical drive. (But with a better screen resolution...)</div><div><br></div><div>2) Price. The 13" Air is just too expensive. I don't, as a general rule, put down any more than £1,000 of my own money on a laptop - the academic pricing meant I could get a sensibly specced Air within my budget. </div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div></body></html>