and video editing with the built in software called iLife.
You might want to define exactly what you mean by Photo/Video editing
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Which one is fast enough to take video editing and photo editing?
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Which one is fast enough to take video editing and photo editing?
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and video editing with the built in software called iLife.
You might want to define exactly what you mean by Photo/Video editing
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There's only one MacBook, and it's a dead-end product. There's the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air now, neither of which I would recommend for anything more than very light and very basic video/photo editing work. Simply because both are laptops and laptops are very poorly suited to this sort of thing as a general rule.
That being said... The MBPs seem to suffer HDD failures most often, which seems fairly logical, but the Airs seem to have some kind of issue with the logic board Apple hasn't quite snuffed out yet which causes them to turn on but get stuck in the pre-POST stage. You won't hear a boot chime, you won't see any video. If you take the bottom case off you'll see the fan is running, so you know it's on, but that's it.
There was an unofficial recall of sorts on the Late 2010 model, where basically Apple made it impossible for any AASP to replace the logic board only a couple of months after the unit launched. From my observations they hadn't gotten rid of the problem in the 2011s either, so there's probably some very fundamental issue that with those models that would be far too expensive and time consuming to actually fix. So instead they just play something along the lines of musical chairs with logic boards until they find one that works. If you get an Air, make sure to get AppleCare or some kind of extended warranty to cover you beyond that first year. That and the SSDs are expensive enough that if they go bad, you could easily pay for the extended warranty and then some right there.
However, and I can't really stress this enough, if you're going to be doing anything more than the most basic video and photo editing, you do NOT want a laptop. The heat generated by working the CPU that hard will have nowhere to go, and just build up inside the case, slow baking the components and bringing about a premature death. This is why the so-called gaming laptops tend to burn themselves out within 6-18 months. Unless you have the money and desire to spend a grand or so on a new laptop about every year, start looking at desktops. And since Apple doesn't really have a mid-range tower (an iMac would have basically the same problem as a laptop), that kind of puts you back into PC land or buying a Mac Pro.