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Apple MacBook Air June 2009
Laptop lightweight packs more punch
Mac Benchmarks
Xbench Results
Overall
Longer bars are better
Note: the speed of MacBook Air’s SSD storage exaggerates its Overall rating.
CPU
Longer bars are better
Memory
Longer bars are better
Graphics – Quartz
Longer bars are better
Graphics – OpenGL
Longer bars are better
HDD
Longer bars are better
The 2.13GHz model performs pretty much as we’d expected in our Mac-native Xbench tests, outpacing its predecessor by around 15-20 per cent. A little experimentation with the bundled iMovie video-editor also confirmed that it is noticeably more responsive when working with large video files. Still, it’s a shame that the 2GB of memory can’t be increased.