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hey guys this is Austin and today mute the test of the 2012 MacBook Air for starters we'll be doing a boot test and here the air is extremely fast only taking just over 13 seconds to boot this is mostly due to the faster SSD that makes opening ass very quick next up we have nova bench which is a general test of performance with 8 gigabytes of RAM the core i5 and 128 gigabyte Toshiba SSD here the MacBook Air notch to score of 633 which is a decent improvement over the 542 score of the last gen air moving right along we have the Blackmagic disk speed test to see exactly how fast the SSD is write speeds generally hovered around 350 megabytes a second and talk four hundred and sixty mega it's a second for reads which isn't far off from the fastest full-size SSDs on the market today for graphics I used Cinebench which runs through the scene of a car chase and recorded the French per second while the intel HD 4000 graphics are much better than the last MacBook Air the benchmark is only able to wrap up with 15 frames per second which is far off from a laptop with high-end dedicated graphics next we have a gaming demo with Minecraft as you can see the air handles the game no problem and although I did turn the render distance down a bit everything else works maxed out of course if you're on a crazy server you may need to turn a few things down but overall I had no problems moving on we've got portal 2 surprisingly this runs on the MacBook at native resolution with all settings turned up except for anti-aliasing from time to time the framerate did dip below 30 frames per second but overall it was quite impressed and they became perfectly smooth by bumping this things down very slightly lastly we have a test of the video editing chops this is a one-minute 1080p clip dropped into ScreenFlow and exported at 720p the air did respectably well here taking just over three minutes you can cut that down a good bit by moving to 720p also shut up for a minute so you can hear the fan noise overall while it can't compete with the new retina MacBook Pro the 11 inch air is a very fast portable machine that can handle moderate video editing and even a bit of gaming if you guys enjoyed this video be sure to leave it the thumbs up and if you're interested in more MacBook Air videos like this be sure to subscribe