![]() The MacBook's display earns Apple's somewhat nebulous "Retina" branding. That's worth bearing in mind, because it means that you'll have to work with Apple if anything goes wrong, and you're stuck with whichever specification you bought for the life of the laptop. As iFixit discovered by rather painstakingly pulling the MacBook apart, there's no real way to upgrade or repair anything on a MacBook at all. No matter which MacBook model you opt for, 8GB of RAM is the standard onboard. Like other Core M products such as the Lenovo Yoga Pro 3, the MacBook employs a fanless design that makes it extremely quiet, but intermittently prone to heating up if you're pushing it hard. The Core M line sits in the mid-point between Intel's power-efficient Atom line and its Core i line of more heavy duty processors. Underneath whatever finish you choose lies either a 1.1GHz or 1.2GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor along with either 256GB or 512GB of memory. Like the original MacBook, you're not awash with choices in terms of specifications, although you can opt to have your MacBook decked out in traditional MacBook style silver, space grey or gold. That's exactly what the 2015 MacBook is as well. Apple event crowds are weird that way, but at the time, the MacBook Air was a convergence of new thinking and compromises wrapped up in a promise of serious mobility. While it shares a name with a line of mostly-plastic laptops from around half a decade ago, the 2015 MacBook has a lot more in common with the MacBook Air, and especially the launch model, circa 2008.īack in 2008, I sat in the audience at Macworld Expo when Steve Jobs rather famously slipped a MacBook Air out of a manilla envelope to the rapturous whoops of the assembled crowd. Not its namesake MacBook (pre-2015), however. The 2015 MacBook displays both of those traits, because it's both an innovative and interesting laptop to use, while at the same time owing a serious debt to previous Apple laptops. The performance differences and the price differences between the processors are roughly equivalent.Macbook (2015) Review Alex Kidman Apple is often seen as an innovative company, and to a certain extent that's undeniable, but at the same time it's also a company that likes to iterate on a core design over and over again as long as people keep buying. I have no recommendations regarding the processor for the new MacBook Pro. These sorts of increases are in line with what I would expect from a “Tick” processor. Multi-core performance has increased 3% to 6%. Single-core performance has increased between 3% to 7% from Haswell to Broadwell, depending on the model. It has 20% faster single-core performance and 25% faster multi-core performance for only a 15% increase in price. If you’re thinking of buying the new MacBook Air I would strongly recommend the i7 processor. However, quite surprisingly, multi-core performance for the i7 model has increased an impressive 14%. ![]() Single-core performance has increased 6% from Haswell to Broadwell, and multi-core performance for the i5 model has increased 7%. As a result I do not expect the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro scores to increase significantly. Generally speaking “Tick” processors improve efficiency while “Tock” processors improve performance. ![]() ![]() Keep in mind that Broadwell is a “Tick” in Intel’s “Tick Tock” model. I’ve generated some charts that compare the new Broadwell-powered laptops with their Haswell- and Ivy Bridge-powered predecessors. Geekbench 3 results for the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models have arrived on the Geekbench Browser. ![]()
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