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Just got a 13" Air (128gb SSD, 2gb RAM) and in my limited anecdotal experience it's noticeably peppier in everyday use than my Mini, which has a much faster CPU
by mkramlich 16y ago
Just got a 13" Air (128gb SSD, 2gb RAM) and in my limited anecdotal experience it's noticeably peppier in everyday use than my Mini, which has a much faster CPU clock and twice the RAM. Cold startup is much faster, shutdowns are much faster, starting apps that used to be real pigs on my Mini (particularly Firefox and Gimp) is now much faster as well. Oh and file copies, of course. I haven't compared build performance, nor have I done apples-to-apples benchmarks. But overall, roughly speaking, it's a big step up in performance for many common scenarios.
- Herring 16y agoYeah, that's the SSD
- glhaynes 16y agoYeah, despite losing over 1 GHz of processor power compared to my old machine, my 11" MBA is easily the fastest feeling computer I've ever owned, no comparison. Most things that most people do are seriously I/O constrained. And if the Photoshop filter takes 6 seconds to apply instead of 4, it's not a big deal. Serious games and video rendering, of course, are some big exceptions.