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MBA 11" Video Card - How much better than 2011?

Sean Dempsey

Sean Dempsey

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I have a 2011 MBA Ultimate. It has always been sluggish when navigating around Photoshop docs with many layers, and of course barely plays Diablo 3.

That being said - how big of an upgrade is the HD4000 graphics over the 3000? I bought the Retina MBP, but the size is annoying, I think I'd rather return it and go for the 11".

Any real world tests of the HD4000 compared to the 3000, or people who have used both?
 
I don't have any hard statistics for you, but after using a friends new 2012 11' Air, I could't get the machine to stutter at all in photoshop or iMovie, and portal ran better on his machine than my 2011 13' Air. :(
 
LeGacY X said:
I don't have any hard statistics for you, but after using a friends new 2012 11' Air, I could't get the machine to stutter at all in photoshop or iMovie, and portal ran better on his machine than my 2011 13' Air. :(
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Glad to hear that :p

Should be getting mine soon. Was his using i5 or i7?
 
Sean Dempsey said:
I have a 2011 MBA Ultimate. It has always been sluggish when navigating around Photoshop docs with many layers, and of course barely plays Diablo 3.

That being said - how big of an upgrade is the HD4000 graphics over the 3000? I bought the Retina MBP, but the size is annoying, I think I'd rather return it and go for the 11".

Any real world tests of the HD4000 compared to the 3000, or people who have used both?
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I ran Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 on the new air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlrkkiMJoDk&

Take a look. FPS dropped by approx maybe 50% with the internal recorder. But Diablo 2 is very playable and the jump from the HD3000 to the 4000 is a significant jump because the HD 4000 has 33% more physical shaders.

Slugginess browsing photoshop is usually due to a weaker cpu though.
 
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