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"More powerful" is a little hard to isolate Not really. Just look at the Passmark scores: Macbook Air (Early 2014): 4159 [1] Macbook : 309

• eropple 12y ago
  Where are you getting those specs? AFAIK the 2014 MacBook Air doesn't come out of the box with an i7 4650U, but rather an 4260U, which has a Passmark score of 3617. Also note that the Apple presentation noted a Turbo Boost top of 2.9GHz, not the 2.6GHz of the Core M 5Y70 that you linked. It's the difference between horsepower and 0-60. There are other factors involved. (This is largely academic, though, because I doubt anybody who owns one is going to really care.)
  • moe 12y ago
    Where are you getting those specs? I googled, for the MBA 2014: http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i7-1.7-13-early-2014-specs.html http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macb... For the new Macbook you are right that Apple appears to use a slightly faster variant of the 5Y70 that doesn't seem to have a benchmark on cpubenchmark.net yet (at least I couldn't find it). I'd be surprised if these 300MHz made a significant difference, though.