March 9 Apple held a presentation at which unveiled its new ultra-thin notebook MacBook 12-inch display Retina, and also announced the release of updated models of MacBook Air. "Air" laptops with screens 11 inches and 13 gave the new processors and graphics Broadwell Intel 6000. Both models have the same chips, but the 13-inch also got more productive Flash Drives. Testing SSD Disk Speed in the program showed that the new MacBook Air are up to two times faster.
The benchmark results show that the 13-inch MacBook Air are working with the drive much faster than the 11-inch. In particular, the average write speed of the latter is 315 MB/s and a read speed - about 670 MB/s. At the same time, drive 13 inch MacBook Air offers high speed recording at 630 MB/s and 1285.4 MB/sec for reading data.
Increase performance 13-inch MacBook Air has become possible thanks to the drive and controller from Samsung, at the time, as a junior line "Ultrabooks" satisfied with the decisions of SanDisk.
Previously, employees iFixit, disassembled updated MacBook Air , found that the machines have some internal differences compared with their predecessors in 2014 release. It is also noted that the new laptops use the old model numbers used in 2012: A1465 and A1466. In the new machines is not possible to upgrade the RAM and SSD, but nevertheless the key modules are easily replaced, can not be said about the battery, which is glued to the frame.
Assessing the maintainability of the new MacBook Air on a scale, experts iFixit put them in four. In order to open their body requires a special five-pointed screwdriver type «Pentalobe».