As we have seen in our dedicated section , several configurations are available from Apple for its new MacBook Air, whether for the model 11.6 inches or 13.3 inches. Performed under SpeedMark 6.5, tests reveal several elements of Macworld and especially the fact that the onboard SSD is fast and that his ability does not affect the overall performance of the ultraportable.

In addition, we find that the new MacBook Air 13.3-inch Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz is shown just 2 times better than the MacBook Air 13.3 inches in 2009 with the same processor with 108 points for the first sub SpeedMark cons 54 6.5 points for the second. MacBook Pro 13 "early 2010 (Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz) shows him a score of 106 points. The new MacBook Air 13.3-inch performance thus offers quite interesting, twenty points behind the 15 "MacBook Pro early 2010 with i5 to 2.4 GHz.

Copying files is 5 times faster and encoding also takes place faster. Part Geforce 320M which replaces the GeForce 9400M shows 3 times more fps in Call of Duty 4 and under CineBench.

The performance difference between the MacBook Air 11.6 inch 1.4 GHz MacBook Air and 13.3 inches at 1.86 GHz is 27% in favor of the latter.

Finally autonomy side, there is also an improvement from the previous generation with a range of 4:25 in playing a video full screen with brightness at 100% and the minimum sound level for the 13.3 inch model, which is better than the older version of 2009 (3:05). Autonomy is 3:40 for the 11.6 inch model.