![]() ' button and you get a nice descriptive panel telling you various things about your Mac, under the tabs Overview, Displays, Storage and Memory. Once that happens, OS X manages your data, but it always keeps a small amount of space free as a buffer for incoming data to ensure file transfers, copies and other incoming disk operations remain as fast as the SSD permits.īecause of this, despite the large bulk of your storage being on a traditional hard disc platter, write speeds will remain fast.įor those Mac owners into techy stuff, you probably know you can choose About This Mac from the Apple menu, and then click the 'More Info. The iMac relies solely on the faster solid state storage until it's nearly full (apparently when there's about 4GB left). ![]() Copy information to the hard drive - install software, download via a browser, the offload photos from a camera - and it is copied to the SSD first. You never really do with the way Macs handle data, anyway, unless you want to. You don't need to think about where you put what. This makes your Fusion Drive appear as a single volume rather than as two different volumes. For $560 extra, you can get the 3TB internal Fusion option.įusion Drive is really Apple's name for the technology built into OS X Mountain Lion and later versions of Mac OS: the data management maximises the performance that the combo-drive offers. So fitted, this iMac retails in New Zealand for $3419, or $320 more than the stock model (on Apple's site the optional drive is listed as '1TB' in capacity). If you recently bought a MacBook Pro or a MacBook Air I'd love to know why you picked your model you can reach me via email or via twitter.However, this test model is also fitted with the 1.11TB Fusion Drive which combines the speed of a Solid State Drive with the cheap mass storage of a traditional hard drive. I'm curious whether it's the cheaper price or the faster performance (or a combination of both) that's contributing to the MacBook Pro's popularity. These results suggest users who want the fastest 13-inch Mac laptop are opting for the MacBook Pro, while everyone else is opting for the 13-inch MacBook Air. However, the opposite is true for the faster models the Core i7 MacBook Pro outsells the Core i7 MacBook Air by the same factor of two to one. ![]() Based on the results uploaded to the Geekbench Browser, the Core i5 MacBook Air outsells the Core i5 MacBook Pro by a factor of two to one. Now that both models have been out for a week it's possible to test that hypothesis. ![]() ![]() When the new MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs came out, I wondered if the new MacBook Air would be more popular than the new MacBook Pro the lack of results for the new MacBook Pro suggested that would be the case. The Core i5 13-inch MacBook Pro is 10% faster than the Core i5 13-inch MacBook Air, while the Core i7 13-inch MacBook Pro is 15% faster (and $100 cheaper) than the Core i7 13-inch MacBook Air. The latest MacBook Pros also offer a nice increase in performance over the latest MacBook Airs. Some of the increase is from higher processor speeds, while some of the increase is from the improved Ivy Bridge processor architecture. Both the Core i5 and the Core i 13-inch MacBook Pros are over 10% faster than the equivalent Late 2011 13-inch MacBook Pros. The latest MacBook Pros offer a nice increase in performance over the previous MacBook Pros. ![]()
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