Archiwa Tagu: MacBook Air

David Pierce:

Even battery life is great without being quite as good as the larger Air. I got 10 hours, 23 minutes on the Verge Battery Test, which cycles through popular websites and high-res images at 65 percent brightness, while in Safari. In Chrome, that number was 8 hours, 51 minutes. Both are class-leading numbers, except when compared to the larger Air and its astonishing 13-plus hours of longevity.

Już się nie mogę doczekać swojego …

James Galbraith:

We also compared the CTO 11-inch MacBook Air to last year’s stock 11-inch MacBook Air with its 1.7GHz dual core Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor, and found the new Haswell-based MacBook Air to be 36 percent faster overall thanks to the new model’s faster integrated Intel HD 5000 graphics and faster flash storage.

Jim na łamach Macworld porównuje nie tylko Aira 11″ CTO z 13–tką CTO, ale również do modeli z 2012 roku. Kolejny test, który warto przejrzeć.

Anand Lal Shimpi popełnił bardzo szczegółowe porównanie pomiędzy dwoma wersjami Airów:

Simplicity permeates Apple from design and software all the way down to the purchasing experience. The 2013 MacBook Air offers only two choices of CPUs, and honestly for the vast majority of the population, that’s all you really need. The default Core i5 1.3GHz (4250U) delivers the best overall battery life regardless of workload. Its performance is often somewhere in between a 2011 and 2012 MacBook Air depending on workload, although in some cases it’s possible to see equivalent performance to an upgraded 2012 MBA. If you need more performance however, the 1.7GHz Core i7 upgrade (4650U) delivers. In most situations you get more than a 20% increase in performance, bringing the platform up to somewhere in between last year’s 1.7GHz Core i5 and 2.0GHz Core i7 options. Once again, with the right workload you could even see performance as much as 20% better than a 2GHz Core i7 from last year.

Pytania przy wyborze modelu, które należy sobie zadać to czy używamy komputer do cięższych zadań, wymagających szybszego CPU¹ oraz czy ważniejszy jest dla nas czas pracy na baterii czy nie. Powodzenia — sam już sobie odpowiedziałem.

Zee Kane rozmawia z siedmioma właścicielami najnowszych MacBooków Air mid 2013, a oto wrażenia Andrew Larkinga:

I no longer carry a charger around, I’m getting an average of 14 hours battery life and I’d say I’m more of a power user than most. I can’t give a time to charge as I do it before I go to sleep, but it’s less than the 6 hours I sleep for. I also no longer carry around or use my iPad. The Air seems to weigh about the same in real world use, I don’t notice I have it.

Koniecznie przeczytajcie słowa wszystkich siedmiu osób, szczególnie jeśli sami zastanawiacie się nad jego zakupem.

Anand Lai Shimpi:

From the outside, the new MacBook Air looks nearly identical to its predecessor. There’s a second mic opening on the left side of the machine now, but otherwise you’d be hard pressed to tell this year’s model apart from the previous generation. Internally, nearly everything has changed.

Tradycyjnie już, Anand rozbiera Aira na czynniki pierwsze i na kilku stronach opisuje wszystko. Najbardziej interesujące dla mnie było jedno zdanie:

It’s clear to me that the MBA is due for a more significant redesign, but this is not the year for that.

Wspominałem o tym ostatnio kilkukrotnie. Może 2014?

Nilay Patel:

13 hours and 29 minutes. That’s all you really need to know — that’s how long the new MacBook Air running Safari lasted running The Verge Battery Test, which cycles through a series of websites and images at 65 percent brightness. Run time in Chrome was shorter, at 11 hours and 29 minutes, but both are still ridiculously impressive. In fact, it’s the record for a laptop running our test without an external battery.

Obecnie mam chrapkę na 11,6″ z Core i7 i 8GB RAM. Jak wytrzymałby 8 godzin to byłbym przeszczęśliwy.

Joel Santo Domingo:

The new MacBook Air 13-inch lasted a staggering 15 hours 33 minutes on our battery rundown test. That is more than double the six hours we get from the best ultrabooks using 3rd-generation Intel Core processors like the high-end ultrabook Editors’ Choice Asus Zenbook Prime Touch UX31A-BH15T$1,099.00 at Newegg (6:38). Most systems return far less battery power, like the five hours for the Dell XPS 13-MLK (4:56) or four hours like on the Sony VAIO Fit 14 (SVF14A15CXB) (4:08).

Piętnaście godzin. Piętnaście. Pięt. Naś. Cie.