![]() The Air was just a bit of a long term test to see if he could live with a Mac rather than Windows. He didn't upgrade because of lack of performance - he really loved the air, just needed more RAM than 4gig. You can spec the airs with a Core i7, and the i5s are standard.Ī friend had a 2011 13" air for a bit (his first mac, before stepping up to a 15" pro for more RAM for Vmware) and he could run Half Life 2 and a few other common LAN shooters just fine on it. To give you an idea of just how much faster the new CPUs are - a Core i3 (dual core) has comparable performance to a Core 2 Quad at the same clock speed. Hence, any game or application that is any way CPU bound will be much faster on a 2011.Įspecially so in the 11" models, where the fastest 2010 CPU is a 1.6 Core2 Duo. However, sandy bridge core I series absolutely DESTROYS the Core2 Duo in the 2010 Airs. I think the HD3000 got a bad rep because it wasn't much of an improvement, not because it's totally crap. ![]() The HD3000 is also faster on a few things as well. In some things the 320m is marginally faster, but its very very close. ![]() The order of GPU performance for the GPUs you mention goes something like this:ĩ400m -> -> (i.e., significant gap) -> -> HD3000 -> 320mīoth the newer GPUs are significantly faster than your 9400m. The HD3000 GPU has had a lot of unjustified bad rap around here (before it was released).
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