“With the recent update of the 12-inch MacBook, Apple touted not only battery life increases but also improved performance,” AppleInsider reports. “Packing a new Skylake processor and integrated graphics, along with faster storage and memory, we wanted to check for ourselves how much of a performance boost the 2016 MacBook provides over last year’s model.”
“We started off comparing the SSD speed which was faster and more consistent in the new MacBook,” AppleInsider reports. “This should result in a faster loading applications and bootup of the Mac, but in real world usage, we didn’t notice much of a difference.”
“Next, we used GeekBench 3 to test processor performance. Both finished the test at about the same time with the latest MacBook being just slightly faster. Our next test is a CPU and GPU rendering test called Cinebench,” AppleInsider reports. “Once again the 2016 Macbook pulled ahead by just a bit.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This looks like a shoutout between the entry-level MacBooks. The 2016 MacBooks starts with a 1.1 GHz dual-core Intel Core m3 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.2 GHz, but we’d like to see how the 2016 MacBook with 1.3 GHz dual-core Intel Core m7 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.1 GHz can outperform the best-spec’ed 2015 MacBook with a 1.2 GHz dual-core Intel Core M processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 2.6GHz.
We bet that a shootout between 2015’s and 2016’s top-of-the-line MacBooks would yield more significant improvements.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]