I only hear good things about its battery life. Which brings me to this thought - will the Macbook Air 2019 actually be decent for what I need? Love the form factor. But performance wise, I really had no complaints. Only reason I'm itching to buy a new laptop are the bulk, the dead battery, and the terrible screen. I am really surprised at how well it is handling my sketchup models. It's a 17' i7 with Nvidia GPU and 4GB RAM.

So as a temporary laptop, I revived my old HP DV7 from 2009. I've been trying to hold off on getting a new laptop because I wanted to see what Apple would come up with for the 13' models in 2020, especially after seeing the 16'. I also find that it is still easier to present my models to clients on a laptop because I can edit on the spot. I'm really happy with my desktop and iPad setup, but I find myself still needing a laptop for modeling when I'm out of the office. I built myself a desktop and have been presenting my projects to clients on an iPad Pro with the Sketchup Viewer app. But I've come up with ways to manage larger files since then.Įventually, I got rid of the Surface because the battery got swollen. I would only really feel that it struggled when saving the file because it would take a really long time to finish saving. I say it's workable because when the file was loaded up, I was able to model just fine. Of course, working on larger projects slowed down the computer, but it was workable. I used to do all these with an i7 Surface Pro 4 as my only computer. My projects range from small condos to large homes, cafes, restaurants, offices and hotels. Maybe I'm overthinking, but here's where I'm coming from. Anyone here using a Macbook Air for sketchup? How well does it perform? Do you feel you should have went for a Macbook Pro instead?

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