This week we had the announcement by Apple of a new MacBook Air, among other products. It has been quite updated compared to the previous model. With the renewed Magic keyboard, with double the storage and with a price "content". In addition, in the first performance tests, the results show that it is faster than its predecessor.
However, and although the speed of the MacBook Air has improved, it falls short of the 2018 iPad Pro. Curiosities of the technology. Now, what you can do with a computer you can't do it with the iPad. We all know that already.
New MacBook Air, 63% faster than the previous model
When Apple announced the new MacBook Air said:
Up to 2x faster CPU performance and up to 80 percent faster graphics performance, to help you power through everything from surfing the web to playing games to editing video. »
Now this statement hides a little trick. Refers to the MacBook Air with 7th generation i10 processor, so it is to be assumed that the data shown are not the same in those models such as i3 or i5 processor, although they are also better.
The first tests carried out by using Geekbench they returned results with a 32 percent improvement in single-core performance and a 63 percent improvement in multi-core tests. However. A curious fact is that the A12X chip in the 2018 iPad Pro outperformed the 5th Gen Intel i10. The iPad swept it away in multicore benchmarks with 73% faster performance.
In any case, a computer will always be a computer and the functions that you can perform with one are not comparable with the iPad, no matter how much Apple tries. Though it depends a lot on the use of each user, Of course.
Things will change when we see the first Mac with ARM. That's where Apple can take a giant step. We are looking forward to seeing it in action.