Ondrej Holzman At the beginning of the week Apple introduced the new series of MacBook Air and Pro, which received the latest processors from Intel, so we would expect their acceleration as well. But Broadwell brings acceleration especially to the Air series, MacBook Pros with Retina displays only slightly accelerated.
How big of an impact does the new Broadwell processor have on the performance of the new MacBooks? revealed in benchmarks John Poole of Primate Labs. In various tests, the new machines have proven to be actually slightly more powerful, however, they usually do not provide a fundamental reason to upgrade existing machines.
The new MacBook Air brings the new Broadwells in two variants: the basic model has a 1,6GHz dual-core i5 chip, and for an additional fee (4 crowns) you get a 800GHz dual-core i2,2 chip. On the 7-bit single-core test and on the multi-core benchmarks, the new models perform slightly better.
According to the test Primate Labs the single-core performance is 6 percent higher, on the multi-core test even Broadwell improved from Haswell by 7 percent (i5) and 14 percent (i7), respectively. Especially the higher variant with the i7 chip brings a significant speed increase.
Also the 13-inch MacBook Pro, which, unlike its larger 15-inch sibling, received new processors (they are not yet ready for the larger model) as well Force Touch trackpad, saw a slight increase in performance. Single-core performance is higher by three to seven percent, multi-core by three to six percent, depending on the models.
It is so evident that the transition from Haswell to Broadwell is interesting practically only for MacBook Airs. The rather mentioned Force Touch trackpad is more interesting in the Pro with Retina. At the same time, it should be added that these are not surprising data.
Broadwell is manufactured using the new 14nm technology, but as part of the "tick-tock" strategy, it came with the same architecture as the previous Haswell. We should expect more significant news only in the fall, when Intel releases Skylake processors. These will be manufactured using the already proven 14nm technology, but at the same time, a new architecture will also come within the framework of the "tick-tock" rules.
and what about the iMac there is no change in processors? as for the price, it looks the same..
The iMac has not been updated, everything is the same.
The price didn't go up because of the hardware upgrade, the price goes up because of the dollar exchange rate upgrade...
Come on Roman, the Mac mini hasn't changed and feels like the same dollar, right? It's just Apple being evil. Just like other side dishes. 8000 for a slightly better procak and a 128GB SSD is Apple's first-rate.
You're right. E.g. The iPad didn't budge a dime. It's just greed for money. What goes on sale, sucks.
Smelly marketing...
What's wrong with adjusting price to demand? What about "stinks"? I don't understand this somehow...? Just don't buy it and that's it.
The conversion to crowns is rather stupid. If you compare it with the Austrian Apple store, with Air the surcharge from 4GB to 8GB is 100 Euro, in our case it is 3200 CZK. The euro is worth 27,31. So does the processor. 15 Euros in the Reich, 4800 CZK here. Austrians also have VAT, so what's the point. Otherwise, the prices of the basic models are the same, or even slightly cheaper here, up to a few crowns. It's even worse with the iPhone. When launched on the Austrian market, the iP6 cost 699, 799 and 899 and the iP 6 Plus 799, 899 and 999 Euro. Today it is worth the same, with the Euro falling significantly against the dollar. Today the Dollar is at 25,8 and the Euro at 27,31. Six months ago it was different. But with us, iP jumped by half. Still the same in the Reich. Otherwise, the prices Apple charges for SSDs and memory are insane. Take Alza for a ride. This is simply a mockery of people who understand a little.
The problem is that the recalculation must also include exchange rate fluctuations, so it is nice that the current exchange rate is 27,3, but not long ago it was over 28 CZK and it could be there in a week. So Apple has to cover the fluctuation.
Apple is not interested in offering its components at reasonable prices. (correct) It will be interesting to see when this affects sales. I think that the new Macbook 12″ is already the ceiling. I have a lot of friends who don't have deep pockets, but I know the value of things and Apple's price policy sucks and discourages them from buying.
Apple has been recalculating the prices of the products it talked about in the keynote in March - i.e. ATVs, MacBooks and iPhones.
The last exchange rate was 19 CZK for 1 dollar... today it is 27 CZK for 1 dollar, i.e. a difference of 8 CZK... So let's be glad that Apple didn't use the full exchange rate and then that it didn't update it for the entire range. The next recalculation will probably be after WWDC.
I was just looking at the Apple store. The surcharge for i7 in the case of MBP is CZK 9600. The surcharge for 8GB of RAM is CZK 6400. That's not normal. How much does the laptop processor cost, if the surcharge from i5 to i7 is 9600? Sometimes I look at Macs, but when I consider how much it cost me to put together my desktop, which has a 4GHz quad-core, 256GB SSD plus a 1T 7200rmp disk, it's quiet and Ubuntu flies on it in such a way that there's nothing to complain about, so I'll quickly change my mind about buying a Mac . It's a shame because OSX is a good system, but too much is too much.
I'm the same, I've been thinking for a long time (and actually still thinking - but less so) about buying a MacBook, but the prices are just too much :-( I put together my desktop PC for 27k, including the monitor and all the accessories. But give it a try in half the lineup, almost 3x as much :-/ I understand, premium brand, but it's a shame.
Hello, do you think that choosing a more powerful processor in the 13″ MBA2015 will result in noticeably worse battery life? And what about the choice of 8GB of memory instead of the standard 4GB? At work, I use a 21.5″ iMac2014 2.7GHz, 8GB RAM, and the system indicates memory usage almost constantly over 60% (I use memory cleaning). So I'm on the fence about the specifications of the 13″ MacBook Air. E.g. I normally have ten or more tabs open in Chrome, and Win notebooks in particular struggle a lot with battery life in this condition - the browser is not afraid to take up the memory that belongs to it. Thanks in advance for your insights, advice, tips. Milan.
It should be just the opposite, the battery life should improve (why does it eat more current, but then the calculation is done earlier.) My experience with the lack of memory in the browser is tragic with OSX 10.10: when Linux runs out of RAM, the system it saves quite painlessly to a slower disk swap. Apple should try to do the same, but instead the rainbow wheel of death appears and the computer is unusable until the next reboot and eats the battery like a pig. It didn't happen to me on OSX before (Snow leopard). So I wouldn't skimp on RAM.
Thanks. So far, I successfully avoid the rainbow wheel of death by automatically cleaning the memory - I use the Czech System Indicator app. https://itunes.apple.com/cz/app/system-indicator/id464507601?mt=12
Do you know how the app knows what to release? And why doesn't OSX know that? It's either black magic, some triviality, or a segmentation fault.
I really have no idea how the application works. I can only attest to its functionality as an average mac user.
So I didn't read anything about freeing up memory in the description of the app..
I am sending a link to a screenshot from the settings https://www.dropbox.com/s/rraxb1x49qicenl/Region%20capture%201.png?dl=0