MacBook Air M4: Actually 23 times faster than the Intel version?

Who looks at Apple Information website For MacBook Air M4, which will be published this week, some striking advertising promises. In addition to the fact that the advertisement for Apple Intelligence and the nerve engine manufactured in Apple-silicon chips for a long time, Apple performs two benchmarks. A: The new machine has “23x fast performance”. Other: Battery life is now six hours long. Problem: Apple measures the first value on an old Intel machine and the second M1 model-and also depends on a very special reading.

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23-fold performance affects only one function: In version 3.6.14 now the apple image processing pixelmator Pro in the so-called super-resolution feature in Pixelmator Pro. A 4.4 MB picture was used here. Super resolution uses Ki to increase the dissolution of a recording – a useful function, but also that you can do much less. Especially since the Intel machine that Apple used as a comparison model is remembering AI acceleration using a nerve engine. Finally, Apple compared comparatively fast Intel models with McBook Air M4 with 10 CPU core and 32 GB RAM: an Intel Core i7 with 1.2 GHz from 2020 from 2020. However, it was only 16 GB.

Other benchmarks listed by Apple are already more realistic: a spreadsheet calculation in Excel was 4.7x brisks compared to the fast intel -variant, video edit in iMovie up to 8x and up to a photoshop benchmark 3.6x. Apple saw a browser test 60 percent faster. Comparison for McBook Air with M1 was 1.6 times faster and 2x faster depending on the value benchmark. According to Apple, prototype devices of MacBook Air M4 were used.

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Battery performance test

In battery life, Apple compared a weak Intel model with MacBook Air M4 (Double-Core Core i3 with 1.1 GHz). The total word was measured with 1080p while playing films in iTunes.

Apple writes, “All devices had equivalent settings of performance brightness. Battery varies based on life use and configuration.” The Mac and I test will show what machines actually do.

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