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hey guys john here with TLD with an unboxing and performance review of the just released 2013 13 inch MacBook Air now I haven't had it long enough to bring you a full in-depth review I really want to put the battery through its paces test it out before I bring you the full review but at the very least for now I can sure as heck show you how it performs so from that we can go to move on to the obligatory plastic ripich from there set it up give it a little nudge and pop the cap in there she is the new 2013 MacBook Air as always Apple does an excellent job with the packaging in terms of aesthetics and just laying it out there so you can bring it out with ease well go to set it aside and take a look at the accessories first so of course you do get all your documentation which includes a Quick Start Guide a MacBook Air important product information guide and of course what would an Apple unboxing be without Apple stickers now aside from that you have your MagSafe 2 power adapter with an extension cable just in case you need some more length now in terms of what's new with the 2013 MacBook Air most of the tweaks and changes are under the hood so these feature Intel's fourth generation Core processors either with an i5 or i7 the model I am looking at is the baseline i5 model spec was a 1.3 gigahertz dual core i5 CPU but the kicker is it actually turbo boosts up to 2.6 cigarettes which is pretty impressive now because these do feature Intel's fourth gen CPUs not only are they bringing better power efficiency but it also brings HD 5000 integrated graphics to the table and in terms of how much of an improvement that is over the previous HD 4000 graphics well I will show you in a minute now of course the MacBook Air still features its ridiculously thin design sizes in at point six eight inches at its thickest point and then tapers down to an insane point 11 inches at its thinnest point it weighs in at just a shade under three pounds and out features a 720p FaceTime HD camera now in terms of the ins and the outs on the left side we have a Mac safe to power input there is the first of two USB 3.0 ports a headphone jack and dual microphones on the flip side we have an SDXC card slot which you do not have on the 11 inch model by the way the second USB 3.0 ports and a single Thunderbolt port so with that said let's go ahead and jump into the performance section of the video we're going to start out with a boot up speed test see how fast this guy is now something really kind of cool with the new 2013 MacBook Airs is that they feature PCI Express base SSDs so you effectively eliminate any state bottlenecks so you should get faster performance so it looks like we clocked in at a hair under 13 seconds let's go ahead and move on to the speed test of the SSD and see exactly how fast it is now in the Blackmagic Design disk speed test application I saw write speeds over four hundred and thirty megabytes per second and read speeds were a staggering 700 plus megabytes per second comparatively if you stack that up against a 13-inch retina MacBook Pro which features a SATA 3 SSD that's pulling in write speeds of 320 plus megabytes a second and read speeds of 450 plus megabytes per second so you can see there is a pretty significant difference there in Geekbench these 64-bit Edition the MacBook Air scored in at six thousand seven hundred and seventy two and again using the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro as a reference that's scored at seven thousand three hundred and ninety so considering the clock speeds on both there's not a huge difference between the two which was actually pretty surprising again I am using the baseline i5 1.3 gigahertz model and if you stack that up with the MacBook Pro you'll notice the base clock speeds there's a huge difference 1.3 to 2.5 on the i5 retina MacBook Pro but if you look at the turbo boost clock speeds that's actually not as big of a difference it's 2.6 on the MacBook Air and 3.1 on the MacBook Pro so there you can kind of see why the performance difference isn't that drastic and again the MacBook Air just like the MacBook Pro also features hyper threading so even though it is physically a dual-core CPU there's actually four threads so the OS will actually see and utilize four threads almost like a virtual four core processor jumping over to Cinebench 11.5 the MacBook Air and the CPU portion scored two point four six or again the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro scored two point seven eight again not a huge difference there jumping over to the OpenGL side of things the MacBook Air put out a score of just about twenty three average frames per second whereas the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro pumped out just about twenty frames per second now the HD 4000 graphics that are found in the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro are the exact same found in the 2012 MacBook Air so that should give you an idea in terms of graphic improvement of how that differs there wasn't a huge difference in Cinebench in the OpenGL section but moving on to Unigine valley there was actually a pretty big difference there the MacBook Air with the HD 5000 graphics got a max frames per second of 29.5 and a score of 751 whereas the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro again using the HD 4000 graphic much like the 2012 MacBook Air scored a maximum frames per second of eighteen point eight and a score of 528 so you can kind of see the gap starting to build there now like I said I have only had it for two days so I will be doing more extensive gaming tests I'll probably throw Windows on their bench market so if you have not subscribed make sure you do so so you do not miss any of that coverage hopefully you guys enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome make sure to hit that like button as always it is much appreciated in return I am dishing out virtual high-fives or internet cookies your choice now if you guys found this type of video helpful and you're looking to buy a new MacBook Air definitely make 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