
- BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 MOVIE
- BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 FULL
- BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 CODE
- BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 SERIES
iTunes play back on the 13in model is now 12 hours, according to Apple.
BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 MOVIE
While the battery claims for general use haven’t changed from last year, Apple claims that iTunes movie playback times increase to 9 hours on the 11-inch MacBook Air, which is an additional two hours of playback time compared to last year’s MacBook Air models, according to the company’s tests.
BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 FULL
Apple claims that the 11-inch MacBook Air offers up to 9 hours of battery life, the same as the 2013 model.Īpple claims the 13in MacBook Air offers battery life that will last a full working day, the same 12-hours Apple boasted for the 13in MacBook Air last year, so if battery life is what’s more important to you this may be a better choice. The longer battery life that the Haswell processor made possible in the 2013 MacBook Air models continues unabated. Inside the 11in MacBook Air is a 38 Wh lithium-polymer battery, the same energy capacity as last year’s model. The graphics engine in the 2014 MacBook Air is capable of some usable gameplay when kept at modest detail settings. To get closer to a playable game we’d suggest trying it at 1280 x 800 and Medium settings, where we saw it average 31 fps and with a 13 fps minimum. And with a minimum dip at just 14.7 fps we would suggest the graphics performance of the Early 2014 MacBook Air is insufficient to play this game well.īatman: Arkham City came off little better, able to average 28 fps at both Medium and High detail settings and screen-native resolution, albeit dropping to just 1 and 4 fps minima, respectively. Dropping slightly to 1280 x 720 and Medium didn’t elicit much benefit, rising slightly to 28.7 fps. Tomb Raider (2013) now available for OS X, we ran its built-in benchmark test using screen-native and High settings, where it played at an average framerate of 27.0 fps. In Macworld US’s graphics tests the new 13in MacBook Air scored higher than last year’s model, and in the Unigine Heaven and Valley GPU benchmark tests the 11in MacBook Air actually scored higher than the new 13in model with higher capacity storage. In tests, the Samsung exhibited slightly higher overall large-file reads – around 5 percent faster – and similarly slightly higher writes, at almost 6 percent faster.īut in small-file transfers, the Toshiba drive measured much better, 9.5 percent faster for reads and a massive 72 percent faster in random writes overall. These drives showed different transfer characteristics. A Toshiba drive in the 11-inch MacBook Air sample and a SanDisk drive in the 13-inch MacBook Air. Small-file random read/writes averaged 157 and 158 MB/s respectively.Īs we mentioned above, these two MacBook Air laptops had flash drives from different drive manufacturing suppliers. With 20-100 MB files, this moved to 760 MB/s reads and 578 MB/s writes. Sequential medium-file read speeds 2-10 MB were 723 MB/s, and 592 MB/s writes. When we tested the 13-inch MacBook Air model, also with a 256GB flash drive, we found it turned in broadly similar numbers to the 11-inch Air, but with important differences. (For context, the best SATA SSDs fitted to state-of-the-art desktop PCs will peak at around 550MB/s.) Write speeds were almost as impressive, at 612 and 546MB/s respectively for the same data sets.ĭown at the smallest file sizes, random reads from 4-1024kB averaged 172MB/s, and random writes averaged to 273MB/s. In this test the 11-inch MacBook Air averaged 701MB/s for sequential reads 2-10MB size, rising to 723MB/s for 20-100MB data. We used Intuit QuickBench to evaluate an unused 50 percent partition of the internal drive, we tested the sequential speed and random read/write (single-thread) speed of flash drives in samples of both the 11- and 13-inch Apple MacBook Air.
BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 CODE
Our 11-inch MacBook Air sample had a 256 GB SSD manufactured by Toshiba (part code APPLE SSD TS0256F), while the 13-inch MBA had the same capacity drive built by SanDisk (part code APPLE SSD SD0256F). Crucially these two MacBook Air laptops had flash drives from different drive manufacturing suppliers. We tested the 11-inch 256GB MacBook Air and a 13-inch MacBook Air model, also with a 256GB flash drive. Our Macworld UK tests suggest that what has been reported is caused not by an over-arching slowdown in the latest models’ flash drives, but instead differences in the performance of drives from different OEM suppliers that Apple now uses for its notebooks’ solid-state drives. In those tests it appears that the overall system score was brought down by slower flash storage results in comparison between the two generations. Indeed, the lab tests from Macworld US suggested that the storage in the 2014 models was slightly inferior to last year’s offering.
BLACKMAGIC DISK SPEED TEST VERSION V8.0.1 SERIES
However, performance tests of this year’s MacBook Air series have suggested that despite improved processor performance. Like the Flash storage in the 2013 model, this PCIe flash storage is up to 9x faster than a traditional 5400-rpm notebook hard drive.
