“Lenovo’s Yoga 3 Pro convertible laptop–which uses the same Broadwell Core M processor as Apple’s new ultraportable MacBook – has provided the first look at its likely performance,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac.
“AnandTech‘s numbers show that in overall performance terms, the Yoga 3 Pro was delivering a little over 90% of the performance of the early 2014 MacBook Air which has far fewer pixels than the Retina MacBook,” Lovejoy reports. “There are a large number of variables beyond the CPU itself that can impact on benchmark scores, so the score should be viewed as a ballpark rather than an exact measure, but it does reinforce my view that this is a machine for the typical base-level MacBook Air customer.”
Lovejoy reports, “If you want to do anything more demanding than writing and Internet use, this is probably not the MacBook you’re looking for.”
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MacDailyNews Take: The MacBook, like every other Mac before it, is designed for a certain range of use cases for which it will be damn near perfect. If you’re a geneticist looking to sequence the human genome, no, the two-pound MacBook isn’t for you. There are other Macs that will better suit your needs.