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I just bought the maxed out 13 inch air in October, and it's been a great dev machine (rails, ios) someone please talk me out getting the newest shiniest for no good reason

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I'm having trouble resisting as well. On used Mac sites, the maxed out 11" 2nd-gen is going for around $1150 (maybe lower in some places?). The maxed out 11" 3rd-gen costs $1650. I could upgrade for $500+tax. (Or $400+less-tax if I'm willing to wait for my sister to buy it for me with her edu discount in a lower-tax state and mail it to me...)

So difficult. I'm worried about the Intel graphics, but I bet they're much better supported under Linux than the 320M is.

i bought the maxed out 13" last year as well. pulling out my credit card...

Don't do it! You really don't have more important things to spend $2000 on?

Fight the power :)

To be fair, 2k isn't much more than my weekly salary and I'm an intern.

I'm selling my current model for about what I spent on it (got an employee discount from a friend). So it's only costing about $200 to upgrade :)

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