ARS TECHNICA Review: MBA soars w/ Ivy Bridge

[justit]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/06/review-the-2012-macbook-air-soars-with-ivy-bridge/

This is the review I was waiting for.

11" 1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i5

Battery: "I ended up getting 4.5 hours and 4 hours and 25 minutes"
"the battery life of the MacBook Air has reached a respectable level"

 

[jimboutilier]

Thanks for the post. Awesome review. Exactly what I was looking for as I currently have a 2010 and am upgrading to a 2012.

 

[arbitrage]

I have the 2.0GHz with 8GB Ram and upgraded from the 2010 Ultimate. It is a huge difference. Simply amazing difference in Lightroom and Aperture for loading 1:1 previews. FAST, FAST, FAST. I think it is faster than my quad core late 2009 iMac.

 

[ftored]

Looks much faster than the 2010. I guess when referring to 2010, its the models with the 9400? Or it is the 320M? I see a huge difference in OpenGL performance and I expected better resutls in graphics from that but it looks worse compared with the rest

 

[2IS]

Looks much faster than the 2010. I guess when referring to 2010, its the models with the 9400? Or it is the 320M? I see a huge difference in OpenGL performance and I expected better resutls in graphics from that but it looks worse compared with the rest

2010s are 320M

 

[ftored]

2010s are 320M

Though the initial comments for the 2011 were that they were really faster in CPU benchmarks but just a bit worse on GPUs.

Seems I ll have to upgrade in the near future, as I already find my 2010 base 11'' too slow for basic stuff and the difference seems huge in all aspects.