The MacBook Air sailed to a respectable score of 0.7 in the old PC Pro Real World Benchmarks – exactly the same result as last year’s model. Taken as a whole, however, there isn’t a huge impact to the changes. Where the previous generation achieved sequential read and write speeds of 664MB/sec and 542MB/sec, the new model stormed past with 1,145MB/sec and 979MB/sec.Īpple 13-inch MacBook Air (early 2015) review: general performance and battery life

The previous PCI-Express SSDs weren’t exactly slow, easily outstripping the mSATA drives found in most Windows laptops, but Apple has upped the internal PCI-Express interface from two to four lanes for 2015, doubling the available bandwidth. Last year’s 1.4GHz Haswell CPU has been replaced by the 1.6GHz Intel Core i5-5250U, and along with it comes a new integrated GPU, the HD Graphics 6000, and as ever it’s possible to upgrade to a 2.2GHz Core i7 for a £130 premium.Īs I’ve found on other laptops, performance increases aren’t necessarily the order of the day here: Broadwell’s move to a 14nm process simply means the new CPUs generate a little less heat.Īpple’s decision to bring the supercharged SSD over from the 13-inch MacBook Pro is far more exciting. Apple 13-inch MacBook Air (early 2015) review: Broadwell and SSD performance

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