New high-end MacBook Air slower than older one?
updated 04:40 pm EDT, Fri June 26, 2009
Old MBA beats new MBA?
The new high-end MacBook Air is paradoxically slower than its predecessor, a review of the system is said to expose. While the updated low-end Air has been made faster, as expected, the new 2.13GHz high-end is actually said to score lower on tests than its older 1.86GHz equivalent. The last-generation model wins out in 11 of 18 Speedmark tests, for an overall score of 179 as compared to 175.
Storage systems are also noted to be unusually important with the Air, as in the current generation, the low-end model can occasionally trump the high-end as a consequence of using a regular hard drive. Depending on the kind of file access needed, hard drives may still rank faster than SSDs. The statement even applies to video compression and 3D rendering, tasks which are typically more dependent on CPU and GPU power.
[Graph courtesy of Macworld]
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