Gadgetory

let's talk processors we ask a lot of the processors in our laptops whether we're playing games running Photoshop or just browsing the web and a dozen different sites while listening to music and chatting with their friends we want to do everything we want to do it all at once and we don't want to do it we're looking for power that's why a lot of people have turned to tablets and smartphones lately the ARM chips and those devices last forever they let us do a lot of things but Intel is catching up with a new breed of processors and latest laptops that offer all-day battery life with the same kind of performance you can expect from the last generation and a fruity finish I think you'll find a light phone the new version of Intel's chips the core i5s and i7 so probably fund inside your laptop are called as well the name doesn't mean anything but the implications are huge Intel's promising major performance increases better graphics performance for gaming and watching movies and most of all better battery life much much better battery life there's a lot of complex engineering behind it but the short version is that the power system the chip is now better integrated which lets Haswell chips ramp up and cool down much more quickly there are many different Haswell chips each with a different flavor profile and character that enhances different activities in different ways there's the ultra low power y series chip and then there's a high-end graphics chips the Irish card sort of let you play games on an ultrabook that's never even been close to possible before but here's that all means manufacturers can now build thinner laptops and tablets than ever before because they don't need to put in as much battery to get four hours of battery life they can also build much more powerful machines than ever before because the graphics performance is so much better or they can do what we're already seeing a lot of drop the new chips into existing models and just watch battery life shoot through the roof which brings us to the new 13-inch MacBook Air last year's model was already the best all-around laptop on the market thanks to good hardware a great keyboard and trackpad in solid performance this year's model changes almost nothing at least on the outside there are stereo mics on the side instead of just a single mono mic that's literally it on the inside though this has well we tested a 1.3 gigahertz core i5 one which came with a very slight performance decrease over last year's 1.8 gigahertz model but I didn't really notice the difference the story here is the battery life the new air lasted 13 hours and 29 minutes in our tests more than double last year's model and well above what intel says has well should offer 13 hours and 29 minutes is enough battery life to completely change things this is the first laptop we've ever seen that can legitimately claim the last you all day the new air is cheaper than last year's models starting at just 1099 and it's still the best all-around laptop on the market but it's also the first to the dramatically new breed of computer and it means that Intel can finally offer the ability for us to do anything we want on our laptops and do it all day long sometimes the best does get better with age you