“The results for the new $999 entry-level 11-inch MacBook Air with a 1.6GHz Core i5 processor, 2GB of RAM, 64GB flash storage, and the integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000 (which is found across the new MacBook Air lineup), show the system to be more than twice as fast at many processing tasks than the previous entry-level 11-inch MacBook Air with a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor.”
Macworld found the new MacBook Airs – which come equipped with Intel integrated graphics – perform slower on graphics-intensive tests than last year’s models, which used speedier integrated graphics from Nvidia. But performance tests that emphasize the CPU were quite speedier, across the board.