Last monday Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), It brought us important news, already known to all and, after them, comes the moment of analysis. The new ones MacBook Air and Pro They boast of speed, but how much faster are they really? Can the results of these tests be sufficient reason to renew our equipment?
MacBook, speed issue
According to pick up la web MacRumors, last speed tests to which they have subjected so much to the new MacBook Air like the new MacBook Pro conclude that these are somewhat faster than originally believed, however, while the improvement in the former is remarkable, the Pro model does not show an extremely substantial improvement.
In the new MacBook AirBoth the 5 GHz Core i1,6 processor that comes by default and the 7 GHz Core i2,2 chip available as an update show very significant gains, as we see in the following comparison chart.
According to the new tests, single-core performance increased 6% from Haswell to Broadwell while multi-core performance on the i5 processor increased 7% and, in the i7 model, this increase reaches 14%.
Due to the much more significant jump in multi-core performance between the 7GHz Core i2.2 processor and the 5GHz Core i1.6 chip, Poole recommends that new buyers of the new MacBook Air go for the i7 chip.
If you are thinking of buying the new MacBook Air I recommend the i7 processor. It has 20% faster single-core performance and 25% faster multi-core performance for just a 15% price increase, recommend from Poole
The Benchmarks or benchmarks for the new 13 MacBook Pro ″ They showed slight gains over the previous generation models, but these differences are not as pronounced as in the case of the MacBook Air. Single-core performance increased 3-7% from Haswell to Broadwell, depending on the model, while multi-core performance increased 3-6%.
I have no recommendations on the processor for the new MacBook Pro. The performance differences and the price differences between the processors are roughly equivalentsays Poole.
Considering the performance tests, now the decision is in the tastes, and the pockets, of each one.
SOURCE: MacRumors
