David Hanak The MacBook Air introduced last week will officially go on sale in two days. In connection with it, there are mainly two topics that have been talked about since the performance. The first is the price, which surprised many Apple fans when it increased the price of the basic configuration by $200. The second is the question of performance, when Apple installed a seemingly weaker processor in the new Air than it was before. However, it is the question of performance that could finally be answered.
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At the end of last week discovered the first results from the Geekbench benchmark, which are probably behind some of the reviewers who have had the new Air available since last week. Geekbench is not a 100% authoritative indicator of performance, but the results from this benchmark can serve as such a shot of what we can expect from the new Air, and also as an indicator of how this novelty copes with its product siblings.
The tested MacBook Air in the configuration with the only available processor (i5-8210Y) and 16 GB of RAM achieved a score of 4 points in the single-threaded test, and 248 points in the multi-threaded test. If we compare these results to the rest of Apple's current laptop lineup, it's not a bad result. The previous MacBook Air in the configuration from last year (with a basic 7 GHz processor) reached 828 or 1,6 points. In both cases, this is more than a 3% increase in performance.
If we compare the results of the new Air with the top configuration of the 12″ MacBook, the Air is also better. The 12″ MacBook with an i7 processor (1,4 GHz) reached 3, or 925 7. Here the difference is not so great, but several other factors must be taken into account. On the one hand, the 567″ MacBook is passively cooled, so the processor will only use its full power for a very short time (after which “throttling” occurs), and on the other hand, the configuration with the i12 processor is almost 7 more expensive than the basic MacBook Air. The results of the basic configuration of the 10″ MacBook are 12, or 3 points.
If we look at the other side of the product offering, we find the MacBook Pro here. Of course, it loses a little to the new Air, but the differences are not as striking as one might expect. 13″ MacBook Pro without Touch Bar reaches 4, respectively 314 points. In single-threaded tasks, the Air is almost as fast, but in multi-threaded tasks it loses about 9%. The "full-fledged" 071" MacBook Pro with Touch Bar achieves a score of 13/13. Again, the difference is not too drastic in single-threaded tasks, but in multi-threaded tasks, the MacBook Pro is completely different.
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….it would be bad if the currently sold "PRO" version was "worse" than "AIR".