Geekbench: the mid-range 2020 MacBook Air is significantly faster than the 2018-2019 models
Jason Snell of Six Colors ran the Geekbench synthetic benchmark from Primate Labs on a mid-range version of the new MacBook Air, equipped with Intel’s quad-core 1.1GHz Core i5 CPU. That configuration produced the following Geekbench scores inSnell’s testing: By comparison, here are the scores for the mid-range MacBook Air from 2018: While those scores are impressive in their own right, Snell makes the case for an ARM-powered Mac notebook by noting that the previous-generation iPad Pro (the 2018 model) came six percent faster in single-core performance and 70 percent faster in multi-core performance....