Sluggishness was a constant ache with two prior versions of the MacBook Air, abnormally compared to the blow of the MacBook line. The latest adaptation has speedier processor options, but according to recent benchmarks, ability accept gotten slower. Huh?
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In their analysis of June's upclocked, marked-down MacBook Air, MacWorld noticed some odd criterion results. Compared to the Late 2008 MacBook Air, clocked at 1.86GHz, the new top-end model, clocked at 2.13GHz, couldn't absolutely accumulate up. This is odd, back the blow of the specs accept remained basically static, and the alone aberration amid the processors is alarm speed.
Confirming their suspicions, they begin the June 2009 1.83GHz Air to be clearly slower than the Late 2008 1.83GHz model, admitting about identical specs. So, what the hell?
The accessible acknowledgment actuality would be some affectionate of firmware change, back it doesn't accomplish faculty from a accouterments perspective. MacWorld speculates that the newer Airs could accept added advancing thermal administration features, which burke the processor if it gets too hot—a approach somewhat accurate by the actuality that high-stress benchmarks showed a proportionally greater achievement abatement than easier ones.
Another achievability in the aforementioned vein: Underutilizing faster processors artlessly gives Apple bigger ability burning and calefaction results. Problem is, that doesn't explain why the akin processors accomplish differently. Also, Apple's accomplished pretense that the new Airs are faster than the old ones would accept been a intentional, arrant lie.
Until these benchmarks are replicated and examined, we'll accept to abide a little bit skeptical. But if they can be, again Apple's got some splainin' to do, I think. [MacWorld via MacRumors]
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