Last month Apple unveiled their new 12-inch MacBook and safe to say that it was designed for maximum portability and mobility, as opposed to being a powerhouse laptop, which is why when the benchmarks for the laptop made its way online, it did not come as a complete surprise to find that it isn’t as powerful as you might think it is.
In fact according to the benchmarks, it turns out that the 2015 12-inch Retina MacBook is on par in terms of performance with Apple’s 2011 MacBook Air. Does that seem a bit disappointing that a 2015 laptop isn’t more powerful than one released four years ago? A bit, however it should be noted that the 2011 MacBook Air model was running an Intel Core i7 CPU clocked at 1.8GHz.
The new 12-inch MacBook on the other hand is powered by a dual-core Intel Core M processor clocked at 1.1GHz. Like we said the new laptop was designed for maximum mobility which means that Apple has to think about things such as battery life in which the Core M is better at conserving, although obviously it does so at the expense of performance.
That being said for those who want a slightly more powerful 12-inch MacBook, there is a 1.3GHz version of the laptop that is being offered at $300 more, but what say you? Disappointed or do you not care since you’d probably just use it for light work?
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