When it came out, the new MacBook Air had better single-core performance than every Intel Mac that ever existed. Not just the Airs - all of them ... on a lower

When it came out, the new MacBook Air had better single-core performance than every Intel Mac that ever existed. Not just the Airs - all of them ... on a lower power budget. I'm sure you can get even faster single-core by brute-force burning power, but Apple were trying to do something more intelligent by balancing with power. I think anyone seriously trying to claim they can't see any value in this is clearly just being silly.