Macbook Air Vs Macbook Pro

Not a lot in it, I'd say, but logically the MB Air with an SSD might be slightly faster. Personally, I'd go for the MBP, because the screen is better and it's slightly larger and possibly a little more adaptable, depending on what you want to do with it. Its my opinion that the Air falls nicely between the iPad Air and the MBP. I think for Uni, the latter would be the obvious choice being a little more flexible.

No theyre probably the same in terms of speed. It's simply put, a huge memory stick with no moving parts.

> Will i notice much difference between my model and the apple products i mentioned above

Not much. About 15% as measured by standard benchmarks.

MBA, MBP, and rMBP Benchmarks:

Overall speed is not a major differentiator among the MBA, MBP, and rMBP 13” models according to the standard benchmarks.

The MBPs are not much faster than the MBA on the Geekbench 2 benchmarks.

The high-end MBA and MBP processors are within 10% the speed of the high-end rMBP processor.

The MBA and rMBP frames-per-second speed was almost equal on the Cinebench benchmark.

The MBA was about 20 to 25% slower than the rMBP frames-per-second speed on the Unigine Heaven and Unigine Valley benchmarks.

Mactracker-Geekbench 2 benchmarks:

13” MacBook Air (Mid 2013) 1.3 GHz: 5946 75%

13” MacBook Air (Mid 2013) 1.7 GHz: 7284 92%

13” MacBook Pro (Late 2011) 2.4 GHz: 5912 75%

13” MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) 2.5 GHz: 6690 85%

13” MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) 2.9 GHz: 7841 99%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.4 GHz: 7136 90%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.6 GHz: 7648 97%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.8 GHz: 7899 100%

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/11/how-to-choose-13-inch-macbook-air-vs-13-i nch-retina-macbook-pro/2/

Cinebench R 15 GPU Test OSX 10.9.0 (Frames per Second)

13” MacBook Air (Mid 2013) 1.7 GHz: 22.9 103%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.4 GHz: 22.2 100%

Unigine Heaven Benchmark 1440x900 (average frames per second)

13” MacBook Air (Mid 2013) 1.7 GHz: 4.0 73%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.4 GHz: 5.5 100%

Unigine Valley Benchmark 1440x900 (average frames per second)

13” MacBook Air (Mid 2013) 1.7 GHz: 4.2 81%

13” Retina MacBook Pro (Late 2013) 2.4 GHz: 5.2 100%

P.S. The 15” rMBP benchmark results were substantially faster: ~1.5x to 5x compared to the 13” MBA speeds.

http://www.barefeats.com/mba13b.html

Mujibkhan4 wrote:

is the ssd on the new macbook pro retina better than the ones in the air?

No, luckily both the Air and Pro have been upgraded to the new PCIe type of SSD, so they are much faster than the old ones used in the Air and Pro.

The NEW macbook Pro and Air are EXTREMELY close in form factor

The newest macbook Pro is essentially a larger macbook Air with Retina display and options for speed in increasing prices up to an independent graphics and quad core processor.

both Air and new Pro now have PCIe SSD and permanent RAM.

The Air is the lightweight portable form factor, fast to boot and shut down, but with longer battery life than any of the macbook pro in 13"

Now the new macbook Pro and macbook Air are extremely close in form factor and nature.

both have 802ac wifi

both have permanent RAM, no superdrive

both are slim profiles and SSD

The only real differences now between Air and Pro....are (in the most expensive Pros) faster processors and quadcore processors and top end model autonomous graphics and the Pro has HDMI output.....and of course the retina display

both are now "very good for travel"

Other than features the form factor of the Air and Pro are VERY close now,....so now its merely a matter of features and price more than anything.

You need an external HD regardless of what you get for backups etc. Drop into an Apple store and handle both and make your choice based on features, such as Retina or non-retina, .... both at a distance now look like the same computer.

The Pro weighs more, ....but nowhere near what it used to just a month ago on the older macbook Pros

The NEW macbook Pro is a different creature entirely than the older macbook Pro, .....the new Pro is thicker than the Air, but id frankly call the NEWEST Pro a "macbook Air with Retina display" , or

Maybe a “macbook Air PRO with Retina display”

Instead of Air VS Pro now,.....its really a smooth transition from Air to pro without comparing say, 2 different creatures, now its like contrasting a horse from a race horse.

Either one in 8gig of RAM (preferably)... the 4gig upgrade costs very little, the I7 you will notice only 15% faster on heavy applications over the I5, and NOTHING on most APPS.....I5 has longer battery life.

As you see below, the non-Retina 13" AIR is 82% of the Macbook with Retina display in resolution

there is no magical number of pixels per inch that automatically equates to Retina quality.

http://www.cultofmac.com/168509/why-you-might-be-disappointed-by-the-resolution- of-those-new-retina-display-macs-feature/

A huge internal SSD isnt a game changer for anything, you need an external HD anyway

➕what you WONT READ on Apple.com etc. is that the larger SSD are MUCH FASTER due to SSD density

"The 512GB Samsung SSD found in our 13-inch model offers roughly a 400MB/s increase in write speeds over the 128GB SanDisk/Marvell SSD"

http://blog.macsales.com/19008-performance-testing-not-all-2013-macbook-air-ssds -are-the-same

Here is an excellent video comparison between the 11” I5 vs. I7 2013 Macbook Air.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDqJ-on03z4

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7113/2013-macbook-air-core-i5-4250u-vs-core-i7-465 0u/2

I5 vs. I7 performance 13” Macbook Air 2013

Boot performance

11.7 I5 ……11.4 I7

Cinebench

1.1 I5….1.41 I7

IMovie Import and Opt.

6.69 I5….5.35 I7

IMovie Export

10.33 I5…8.20 I7

Final Cut Pro X

21.47 I5…17.71 I7

Adobe Lightroom 3 Export

25.8 I5….31.8 I7

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Performance

27.3 I5…22.6 I7

Macbook Pro processor and configuration options:

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs-retina/

Macbook Pro ports:

Macbook Air (13") ports:

i would choose mac book pro

because it has much more GB and it can handle much harder tasks