The day before the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Apple's WWDC Developers Conference released new products. Mainly is the system update. I think you've seen the new IOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, both of which belong to the software category. This time, we'll focus on the new hardware products of apple (Mac Pro has also seen it): the 13 inch Apple MacBook Air in the mid-2013 version. In terms of appearance, there is not much change compared with the previous generation of MacBook Air, and the ultra-thin tapered design is still maintained. The brushed aluminum alloy shell and the port are the same as before (including the thunderbolt port). Unfortunately, we didn't see the retina screen this time.
Apple chose to sacrifice screen resolution to increase battery life this time, and the effect was immediate: 11 inch battery life reached about 5 to 9 hours, while 13 inch battery life was 7 to 12 hours. Of course, we need to use it for a day before we know that such endurance performance is related to the new Haswell chipset, and Apple also promises that the new CPU will bring better performance. We also tried to run the test software to see what kind of performance the new product has. You can see the details in the jump.
First of all, we ran the blackmagic disk speed test software to see the performance of the hard disk read-write speed. The result is very good, the write speed is 433.4 MB / s, which is a good performance that has never been heard before, and the read speed is also very good, reaching 725.4 MB / s. This means that it is much better than the existing 15 inch retina MacBook Pro, and almost twice the reading and writing speed. It's strange that the value of geekbench and xbench test software has declined. We will continue to implement this test performance in the future. However, it is possible that the software has not yet matched the new hardware implementation, so the test results are not accurate. I believe that we will have a more accurate answer after careful testing.