And while the Air's display is fairly bright, with accurate colors, its relatively low 1400 x 900-pixel resolution feels dated.Īmong Windows-powered Ultrabooks, the HP Spectre 13t is our top choice, offering a full-HD touch screen and good endurance for the same price. However, the flash storage on this Air isn't as speedy as that on the last model.
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Plus, OS X Mavericks is easier to use and less of a hassle than Windows 8 when it comes to security updates. For a reasonable $999, the MacBook Air boasts best-in-class battery life, fast performance and an excellent keyboard and touchpad. The Spectre 13t, XPS 13 and Aspire S7 all took more than 5 minutes.Ĭlick to EnlargeWhat was once a luxury ultraportable has become a bargain.
The newest Air took just 3 minutes and 46 seconds, compared to 5:36 for the previous model. However, the last-generation Air scored an even higher 242.4 MBps, and the S7 hit 196 MBps.Īpple's ultraportable certainly made quick work of our OpenOffice spreadsheet test, which involves matching 20,000 names with their corresponding addresses. That equals a zippy transfer rate of 190.3 MBps, outpacing both the XPS 13 (145 MBps) and Spectre 13t (159 MBps). The Air's flash storage booted OS X Mavericks in a brisk 14 seconds and copied 4.97GB of mixed-media files in 27 seconds. MORE: Apple's Best and Worst Notebook Brands Rating Still, the HP Spectre 13t (same CPU as the Dell and Acer, with 4GB of RAM) reached 6,436. That showing beats the category average (4,218), the Dell XPS 13's score of 5,153 and the Acer Aspire S7's 5,101 (both machines have 1.6-GHz Core i5-4200U CPUs and 8GB of RAM). On Geekbench 3, which measures multi-core performance, the 13-inch Air scored 5,393. The result is a system that's fast and responsive - whether you're editing photos in Pixelmator or opening multiple files at once - but not superior to its predecessor in all ways. That's below the category average of 83dB and behind the Spectre 13t (84dB), but only slightly lower than the Dell XPS 13 (74 dB).Ĭlick to EnlargeApple now equips the MacBook Air with a 1.5-GHz Core i5 processor, up from 1.3 GHz on the previous model, along with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of PCIe-based flash storage. On our audio test, the 13-inch Air registered 73 decibels at a distance of 23 inches. The chanting at the beginning of Bastille's "Pompeii" had significant oomph given the Air's slim profile. The Air's speakers, which are located beneath the keyboard, got plenty loud when streaming Alex Care's "Too Close." However, the instruments and vocals weren't as distinct as we'd like. The same Acer scored 6.1 on this test, and the average ultraportable gets an even higher rating of 6.6. The MacBook fared better on the color accuracy test, notching a Delta-E rating of 2.5 (closer to 0 is better). The Acer Aspire S7, by contrast, hit 98 percent. However, the HP Spectre 13t mustered just 231 nits.Īccording to our colorimeter, the 13-inch Air produces 63.3 percent of the color gamut (closer to 100 percent is better). The Dell XPS 13, for instance, averaged 356 nits. Click to EnlargeThe screen's average brightness of 288 nits outshines the average ultraportable (251 nits) but is not the best in class.
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