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#MACBOOK AIR EARLY 2015 SSD STORAGE 1080P#

However, the notebook's design is due for an overhaul, and shoppers deserve a sharper and more colorful display.įor $100 less, the Dell XPS 13 has a crisper but dimmer 1080p display and a lighter and more adventurous design. I also continue to like the comfortable keyboard and accurate touchpad, even though the Air lacks the new ForcePad. You get better performance and better battery life, all for $999.

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The 2015 MacBook Air is a very good upgrade over last year's model. MORE: 10 Laptops with the Longest Battery Life Most important, the MacBook has just one port (USB-C), so you'll need to buy adapters if you want to charge the notebook and plug in another device at the same time. The Air's battery life also bested the MacBook's (8 hours and 43 minutes) by more than 5 hours.

The Air's Core i5 processor beats the MacBook's Core M processor at every turn, and its flash memory is 100 MBps faster than the MacBook's.

However, the Air trumps the MacBook when it comes to performance and endurance. The MacBook also has a smaller but much sharper 2304 x 1440-pixel display that's not only brighter, but shows more colors.

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Should you spend an extra $300 for the 12-inch MacBook? In terms of portability, the MacBook weighs nearly a full pound lighter than the 13-inch Air. This year's model scored 24.81 fps, which is comfortably higher than the 18.47 fps of the previous model. However, the 2015 Air did outperform the 2014 Air on the OpenGL portion of the Cinebench benchmark. At a higher resolution of 1080p, the Dell XPS 13 notched 33 fps on Good, and 24 fps on Full. That's just barely better than what we consider playable (30 fps). In World of Warcraft, the 2015 Air hit 32 frames per second with the resolution at 1440 x 900 and the effects on Good. The Dell XPS 13, however, was even worse, at 8.1.Īlthough Apple touts the Intel 6000 Graphics in the 2015 Air as better than ever, we saw only marginal gains, at the least, over last year's model. With a Delta-E score of 4.3 (numbers closer to zero are better), the Air didn't fare as well as the average (3.4), the x360 (1.3) or the UX305 (1.5).

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Our tests revealed that it can produce just 65.8 percent of the sRGB gamut, which makes it far less colorful than not only the average ultraportable (78.7 percent), but the XPS 13 (92), the HP x360 (103), the Yoga Pro (99) and even the less expensive Asus ZenBook UX305 (94).Īnd the colors it can display aren't very accurate. However, the Air's display falls down on some other display metrics. However, the 2014 Air was even faster, completing the task in 3 minutes and 46 seconds.Īt 334 nits, the Air's brightness is on a par with the HP x360 (339 nits) and is brighter than the typical ultraportable (272 nits), the nontouch XPS 13 (298), the Asus UX305 (281) and the Lenovo Yoga Pro (318). That's a minute faster than the XPS 13 (5:02) and the HP x360 (5:04), and more than twice as fast as the average (8:33).

The Air also dominated the competition on our Spreadsheet test, matching 20,000 names and addresses in 4 minutes and 3 seconds. On Geekbench 3, which measures overall performance, the Air's Core i5-5250U processor scored 5,783, which just edges out the XPS 13 (5,530) and the HP x360 (5,614), which have slightly less powerful Core i5-5200U CPUs. That's twice as fast as its predecessor (190.3 MBps), the Yoga 3 Pro (175 MBps), the Asus UX305 (154.2 MBps) and the HP x360 (141.4 MBps). It duplicated 4.97GB of multimedia files at a rate of 358.4 MBps. The 128GB PCIe-based flash storage in the Air is leagues better than that offered by the competition. While better than average, the Asus UX305 (9:38) and HP x360 (9:28) simply can't match the Air's endurance. Among competing systems, only the nontouch version of the XPS 13 came close, at 11:42.

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