No one is really living like a king on welfare , either . If they give you $ 500 a month you ' d be considered pretty lucky and you only get that if you ' re actively applying for jobs every month . <| sep |> I ' ve got a 2012 MBA 4 gb 128 gb base model . It runs like butter 90 % of the time . I sometimes go overboard and have fifty tabs open , Netflix running , another video app running , iTunes in the background and something else , and then it starts to slow down . I edited a 15 minute documentary on it no problem . It actually edited with FCP better than my desktop with Premiere Pro . My only regret is that I got 128 gb rather than 256 . I like shooting in RAW and it just fills up so much space , granted I ' ve offloaded it to an external drive . Regardless it would be nice to have space for stuff like bootcamp I would ' ve liked to run solid works when I was back in school . I usually have 510 GB free at any time though .