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MacBook Air Reviews - The Best MacBook Air Reviews From Around The Net!

 

Latest January 2008 MacBook Air Reviews

macbook Air Reviews
Review - Dr. Mac Reviews MacBook Air
The MacBook Air has no clothes
A Few More Days with the MacBook Air
MacBook Air: The proof's in the packing
MacBook Air makes a great ultraportable... for Vista
First opening up of the MacBook Air motherboard
MacBook Air survives the ultimate stress test: Windows Vista
Martha Stewart Loves Her MacBook Air [MacBookcake]
Throw down, MacBook Air
MacBook Air reviewed... as a Windows machine
Martha Stewart: My New MacBook Air
A Few Days with the MacBook Air
Loving the MacBook Air
No Compromises, Except for the Compromises
Infoworld User Note: One Month with MacBook Air
ABC News reviews Apple’s MacBook Air: Sexy and skinny as a supermodel
Photos: Cracking open the MacBook Air
CNet Reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X300
Ihnatko: Putting on Airs
Woz waxes warily on MacBook Air
MacBook Air Gives a Little on Features, Gets a Lot on Design
Apple MacBook Air Specifications Page
Lenovo's Official X300 Comparison vs. MacBook Air Shows Why It's Better For Business Dudes [Lenovo X300]
MacBook Air can be like sporty second car
Lenovo X300 vs. MacBook Air: More Features, Less Sex Appeal
MacBook Air Solid State Drive Performance
Lenovo X300 Benchmarked Versus MacBook Air [Thin Laptop Fight]
Samsung Dismisses SSD Reliability Concerns
MacBook Air Diary-Day 23: Lovin’ the F8 key
MacBook Air temperature tests
MacBook Air a compelling option for the true road warrior, Steve Watkins, The Practical Mac
Walt, stop reviewing that other junk
Mossberg: Lenovo X300 Has More Features than MacBook Air, Less Sexy
Mossberg review pits X300 vs. MacBook Air
Review: A second look at Apple's MacBook Air
SSD Benchmarked Against SDHC, SSD Wins Convincingly [Storage]
MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)
MacBook Air's Superdrive is Restricted?
MacBook Air Diary-Day 15: Temperature benchmarks
The MacBook Air takes a long time to recharge
Thank you Steve
The Apple Core: Tackling the MacBook Air Storage Issue
MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)
PC World: MacBook Air runs Windows medium-fast
Which is sturdier, a MacBook Air or an HP business laptop?
MacBook Air Diary-Day 9: Is the SSD overhyped?
Getting testy with the MacBook Air
First Look: MacBook Air Migration Assistant
From the Lab: Building a better MacBook Air
MacBook Air Review
MacBook Air: Initial impressions
Ars Technica reviews Apple MacBook Air: Despite questionable battery life, it’s a keeper
MacBook Air Diary-Day 5: Battery observations
MacBook Air Diary-Day 4: The packaging
TechRestore Takes Apart MacBook Air on Video
MacBook Air (HDD model): an in-depth review
MacBook Air benchmarks posted
MacBook Air Diary-Day 3: Migration assistance
MacBook Air unboxing: notes and high-quality photos
What's wrong with the MacBook Air?
MacBook Air Q&A Part 2
MacBook Air Diary-Day 15: Temperature benchmarks
From the Lab: Building a better MacBook Air
MacBook Air with SSD tested: performance boost nowhere to be found
MacBook Air: Initial impressions
MacBook Air benchmarks posted
MacBook Air face-off: HDD vs SSD (with video)
MacBook Air Review
Apple's MacBook Air Will Soar
Gallery: MacBook Air Unboxing
Review: MacBook Air
Assessing the MacBook Air
MacBook Air: Making the migration
Computerworld reviews Apple’s MacBook Air: incredible, amazing, truly innovative Mac
MacBook Air: first benchmarks
MacBook Air: First Lab Tests
From the lab: MacBook Air in the house
MacBook Air: SSD or HDD
Inside the MacBook Air: The solid-state drive option
MacBook Air has landed
NBC's Today Show Gushes Over the MacBook Air
Newsweek’s Levy reviews Apple MacBook Air: an instant object of techno-lust, a design triumph
USA Today’s Baig reviews Apple MacBook Air: 3-pound marvel for frequent travelers
Mossberg reviews Apple MacBook Air: Beautiful, amazingly thin, daring design
Early MacBook Air reviews trickling in
First HDD-based MacBook Air reviews hit the wires
The MacBook Air reviewed
MacBook Air review


Performance

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Graphics ..... 42% Slower
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Game .......... 44% Slower
Application ... 13% Slower
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13 Inch MacBook Air 1.8GHz - Z0FS0LL - Originally $3,098
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Performance

Compared to iMac Core Duo 1.83 GHz
Processor ... 27% Slower
Graphics ..... 41% Slower
Hard Drive ... 35% Slower
Multi-File Copy ... 30% Slower
Game .......... 59% Slower
Application ... 18% Slower
About the Tests

This section updated: Monday, April 27, 2009

MacBook Air - 13-inch 1.6GHZ- Z0ER-1.6GHZ - Originally $2,798
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