Macworld puts the MacBook Air through the paces
The MacBook Air is a sexy machine, there is no doubting that, but how does it perform? Our buddies at Macworld ran some preliminary tests and this thing isn't a speed demon. Macworld tested a stock MacBook Air 1.6GHz processor and the 80 gig harddrive and compared it to a stock MacBook (2Ghz Core 2 Duo), a MacBook Pro (2.2GHz Core 2 Duo), a Mac mini (1.83GHz Core 2 Duo), and a PowerBook (1.67GHz G4).
How did the MacBook Air rate? Well, it beat the PowerBook and that's something, right? All the other Intel based Macs were faster than the MacBook Air, but these results aren't too shocking. If you're interested in a MacBook Air you aren't buying it for performance, but rather for its compact size.
