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Geekbench: New MBAs slower?
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Stop trolling. If its quick enough for you - buy one. Don't go off specs go test drive the machine.e
It will be faster and cooler. People take these synthetic bench scores too seriously. The only way you can tell how a machine performs is to use it. The combination of the 320M with the new Flash Storage will make the new Macbook Air feel very fast at just about everything for most peoples usage.
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That's interesting.
That's interesting.
Curious if the SSDs are coming up any faster as the tech has evolved a fair amount.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?q=macbook+air
I am now seeing some better scores than I was last night. Hoping that some users here who know what they're doing can post some benchmarks. I am particularly interesting in the two 13" models.
EDIT: Oh, I am seeing some much improved scores now. Odd.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?q=macbook+air
I am now seeing some better scores than I was last night. Hoping that some users here who know what they're doing can post some benchmarks. I am particularly interesting in the two 13" models.
EDIT: Oh, I am seeing some much improved scores now. Odd.
I have no clue why any of you would flame the thread starter ... he is asking about a great point. Is this version as fast or faster than the previous gen MBA. I am very curious about this myself and it will weigh heavily on weather I buy one or not also.
I mean they have went somewhat backwards with the 1.4GHZ processor in the base model. How well will the MBA take on tasks?
I mean they have went somewhat backwards with the 1.4GHZ processor in the base model. How well will the MBA take on tasks?
In the excitement of the presentation on Wednesday, I didn't notice that Steve didn't say something that he almost always says at product introductions...
"And this is x% faster than..."
He also didn't mention that they ran cooler, which I kind of would have expected with this model given its challenges with heat dissipation in previous iterations.
The new benchmark numbers posted in the last few hours are more encouraging than those that went up last night though. Still curious to see how the 2.13 and even the 1.86 are doing in terms of heat, Flash (urgh) and fan noise.
Does anybody know what the return policy is in the UK regarding BTO machines? If these things do continue to run hot, I might want to keep what I have, or even get one of the 1.86 models instead if those run cooler.
"And this is x% faster than..."
He also didn't mention that they ran cooler, which I kind of would have expected with this model given its challenges with heat dissipation in previous iterations.
The new benchmark numbers posted in the last few hours are more encouraging than those that went up last night though. Still curious to see how the 2.13 and even the 1.86 are doing in terms of heat, Flash (urgh) and fan noise.
Does anybody know what the return policy is in the UK regarding BTO machines? If these things do continue to run hot, I might want to keep what I have, or even get one of the 1.86 models instead if those run cooler.
it's bull's twaddle
how fast are these feckers!!!
they are streets ahead of any Rev C MBAir