rob-ART morgan writes for Bare Feats, “Readers wanted to know: Will the ‘early 2016’ MacBook Retina 12-inch run Pro Apps if the projects are not too extreme? And how its performance compare to other Mac laptops?”
“With one exception, the 2016 Retina Macbook is no match for the top 2015 MacBook Pro 15-inch laptop,” morgan writes. “However, in 4 out of 6 cases pro functions… it was competitive with the top 2015 MacBook Pro 13-inch.”
“With Intel M processor, RAM limited to 8GB, and lack of Thunderbolt 2 or 3 support, the MacBook can’t be considered a serious platform for demanding professional projects,” morgan writes. “It will be interesting to see what the next generation of MacBook Pros offer in all areas performance.”
Full article, with all of the benchmarks, here.
MacDailyNews Take: The new 12-inch MacBook, our new favorite Mac (displacing the beloved 11-inch MacBook Air units in our backpacks), isn’t meant to sequence the human genome or edit Star Wars. Rather, the new 12-inch MacBook is as close to the perfect personal computer for the road warrior that Apple, and therefore any company, has ever achieved. The Space Gray models look amazing!