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).
MACBOOK AIR EARLY 2015 SSD STORAGE PRO
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. The best upgraded option should be the i5/8/512 or if you can afford the difference or need the computing power: i7/8/512.Among competing systems, only the nontouch version of the XPS 13 came close, at 11:42. In summary, and this being just my personal opinion, the best basic option should be the i5/4/256. However, more storage is always better if you have lots of media (music, photos, video), and/or if you are backing-up other devices to your laptop, and/or if you have a large amount of data that you need to migrate from your previous laptop or desktop.Ģ/ Future proofing: if you're the type who keeps a laptop for more than 3 years, you'd better get a more powerful unit in terms of processor, RAM, and even storage, so that your unit will last you 5 years (perhaps more) and still be able to handle more powerful apps and softwares, and store more and more media since we are moving towards more and more media-rich contents in everything we handle today.
MACBOOK AIR EARLY 2015 SSD STORAGE UPGRADE
My personal opinion is that current applications require at least an i5 processor, 8GB RAM and 500GB storage.īut it really all depends on 2 main factors:ġ/ Intended use: browsing the Internet, using office apps, and exchanging E-mails really don't require more than the basic/standard configuration of processor and RAM no need to upgrade for that. You cannot upgrade RAM and cannot economically upgrade flash storage post purchase. You can request an upgrade during purchase.
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