MBP vs. MBA benchmarking showdown

April 21st, 2008 | Category: Macbook Air

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air

Bare Feats continues to pit Macs against each other in a no-holds-barred, up-against-the-wall benchmarking breakdown, and that date around it’s the MacBook Pro and the MacBook Air in the octagon together. And things go about as planned — while the solid state drive in the MBA has its advantages, the processor and GPU (what little there is of it) in the MBA don’t even really compare to the MBP. certain, it’s a small, super thin, super portable computer, but not only are you paying in cash for the portability, you’re paying in performance, too.

This doesn’t mean the MBA

is a poor computer at all — for most tasks, it’ll work just fine. But complicated 3D graphics (both Halo and Unreal Tournament 2004 were tested) will be nearly unplayable in games, and there will be a substantial wait, sometimes up to minutes more, for positive processor intensive tasks. whether speed is a high priority (at least higher than portability), the MBA isn’t for you.

I would like to see how the MacBook compares, though. It’s not surprising that the MBP is a fast machine, but where does the MBA line up compared to the cheaper model?

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