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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
I know we don't have reviews, teardowns, benchmarks, etc., but for those of you who know about such things, how does this new Air, on paper/what we saw today, shake out against, say, an early 2013 13" MacBook Pro (Retina) with 2.6GHz Core i5, 8GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000?
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Well, if you take the 2020 13-inch Pro and compare it against the 2013, it's a very clear win. About thrice as fast at single-core tasks, and on top of that, you're going from two cores to 4+4.
The Air is a bit trickier. It lacks a fan, so for sustained loads, it'll eventually throttle and/or get rather hot. So it may be a bit more annoying to handle when doing long stuff like encoding video.