The colors are the regular space gray (still cool), silver (the classic) and gold which is still packs a peachy punch. Wouldn’t it have been great if there’d been a different color so absolutely everyone would unequivocally know you had the brand-new MacBook Air? Or am I being superficial? The only design trick I think Apple has missed is the color.
It also remains impossibly light: it weighs 2.8 pounds, 1.29kg, so a bit less than the 3.0 pounds, 1.4kg, of the 13in MacBook Pro. But that tapering edge is so appealing and makes the laptop look impossibly thin. It still feels impossibly thin, though, it’s true, at its thickest it is slightly bigger than the MacBook Pro. So, maybe Apple felt it wanted to concentrate the changes on the inside this time around.Īs it happens, the MacBook Air design is pretty cool, so there’s no harm in sticking with it.
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The same can’t be said for the MacBook Pro 13in, the other laptop to gain the M1 chip this month and which has had the current design for a bit longer. The mid-2013 11-inch MacBook Air with 256GB scored an average of 687 MBps writing and 725 MBps reading, while the brand new MacBook Air with 256GB of flash storage averaged 520 MBps writing and 676 MBps reading.That’s a design which was very widely welcomed, so it may have thought a change wasn’t needed yet.
The 2014 MacBook Air with the same capacity averaged 306 MBps while writing and 620 MBps while reading. The mid-2013 MacBook Air with 128GB of flash storage averaged 445 MBps while writing data and 725 MBps while reading. We also ran Blackmagic Design’s Disk Speed Test, which showed the flash storage in the new models running slower than the same capacities in the previous generation. Zipping the files was only 3 percent slower on the 2014 11-inch MacBook Air. The performance differences narrowed considerably, as well, but the 2014 11-inch MacBook Air with 128GB of flash storage was still the slowest of the group in these three tests it was 35 percent slower than the mid-2013 13-inch MacBook Air with the same flash storage capacity when copying files, and 53 percent slower than that system when uncompressing the files. Both the 20 vintages of MacBook Airs were faster at manipulating this data set. We simplified the 6GB data set we use in our copy, compress and uncompress tests to use fewer but larger files (1765 versus 8797) and ran the trials again. However, the new 11-inch model was also slower than last year’s 13-inch model with 128GB of flash storage.Ĭompressing a 6GB folder also took quite a bit longer on the new MacBook Air and Unzipping was just plain slow, with the new 11-inch taking nearly three times as long to perform the task as last year’s 11-inch MacBook Air. With solid-state storage, lower capacity drives are often slower performers, and last year’s 11-inch had the higher capacity 256GB of flash. (The mid-2013 MacBook Airs we have on hand are an 11-inch 1.3GHz model with 256GB of flash storage and a 13-inch 1.3GHz model with 128GB of storage.) Copying 6GB of files and folders took 28 seconds on last year’s 11-inch MacBook Air, but took nearly twice as long (54 seconds) on this year’s 11-inch model.
Interestingly, the new MacBook Air turned in slower test results than the mid-2013 MacBook Air in our storage performance tests.
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