You don’t get to choose which make of storage you get when you buy your Mac. In this case our test machine may be built with different storage parts than what you might buy from Apple – Apple uses drives from either Samsung, Toshiba or SanDisk. Which components each machine is built with. It’s highly likely that such small speed differences depend on The flash storage in the 2014 MacBook Air that we tested performed slower than the flash storage with the same capacity in last year’s models.

The 2014 MacBook Airs did outperform the 2013 Air in most tests – if only by a few seconds, but lagged in our storage performance tests, which showed the flash storage in these new systems to be slower than last year’s. The speed difference is only 3% but it was a surprise. You can seeĭespite the extra 100MHz of processor speed the new £749 11-inch MacBook Air with 128GB of storage, the £899 11-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage, and the £999 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage actually scored marginally slower than the 2013 models. Apple MacBook Air 11in and 13in (Early 2014): Performanceįor this review we’re using the Speedmark 9 test results from our colleagues at Macworld Labs.

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