The latest Macbook Pro and Macbook Air comparative evaluation (13 inch)

Attracted a lot of attention this week, Apple 15-inch retina Macbook Pro, followed by the latest 13-inch retina Macbook Pro and Macbook Air will also be listed, if you decided to buy a 13-inch Mac notebook, Pro and Air between the choice is very difficult, especially for their price is also $ 1,199. From 10 key points to analyze the Pro and Air, allows you to easily decided which one to buy.

13- inch Macbook Pro

Weight: 4.5 pounds

12-inch Powerbook G4 from 2003

Intel processors in 2006, released 13-inch polycarbonate Macbook

2008 aluminum one Macbook and the abolition of the FireWire port

2009 re-add the FireWire 800 port + SD card slot, and renamed the Macbook Pro.

Since then, the design remained the same, the slightest change in addition to the processor and integrated graphics.

2012 Intel's latest Ivy, Bridge, (Ivy chip) + HD4000 integrated graphics.

13- inch Macbook Air

Weighing 2.96 pounds

First released in 2008, light with

2010, released a 11-inch lightweight Macbook Air

2011 years ago, has always insisted on a small form factor + low-power, using the Core Duo processor

Late 2011 to switch to low-power ULV Sandy Bridge processor

The latest Air uses Intel Ultra Low Voltage The Ivy processor + HD4000 integrated graphics processor clock speed is slower than the Pro.

Round one: the CPU

Pro 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, the Core frequency the accelerated up 3.1GZ, 3MB L3 cache.

Air reasons because of the ultra-low power, 1.8 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 processor, Turbo accelerated up to 2.8 GZ, 3MB L3 cache.

Results: The Pro wins.

Round two: GPUs

Both use the Intel Core i5 processor + HD4000 GPUs have.

Results: tie

Round 3: RAM

Both are 4GB, can only meet basic needs.

Results: tie

Round 4 : hard

Air is Apple boasted four times faster than the ordinary hard disk of 5400 RPM's Apple's solid-state hard drive, 128GB of memory of the regular edition is only enough for basic use, general users need extra money to buy a hard disk.

Pro is another apple small rotation type of hard drive (you can also optional SDD solid state drive), the regular edition 500GB.

Results: The Pro, wins

Round 5 : monitor

Air 1440 * 900 resolution, LED backlight, the screen shining.

Pro uses a 1280 * 800 resolution, wider color gamut and dynamic range, the general application is not better than the Air than the Air, but the encounter colorful pictures, videos, etc., have obvious advantages.

Mainly rely on users prefer the fine resolution or color display.

Results : tie

Round 6 : Interface

The latest Air configure high-speed Thunderbolt interface, two 3.0 interface, audio interface, re-design of the MagSafe charging port, SD slot.

Pro: In addition to the above interface, Pro, FireWire 800 interface, two Gigabit Ethernet interfaces and the old charging port. Traveling without the extra to buy a charging adapter.

Results : The Pro, wins

Round 7 : CD-ROM

Pro there are double-layer DVD 8x speed CD-ROM, while supporting the CD player. Air has no optical drive.

Results : The Pro, wins

Round 8 : Weighing

In basically the same premise, the notebook is naturally the lighter the better. The Air 2.96 Pro 4.5 pounds, the Air victory.

Results : the Air wins

Round 9 : battery life

Air 50Whr battery life (about 7 hours), Pro 63.5Whr battery life.

But because the Air uses ultra-low voltage processors, both in the wireless Web test can be up to 7 hours battery life, screen was semi-bright, open WiFi, search the Internet. Ordinary users to use the day is no problem.

Results: tie

Round 10 : Upgrade Space

Pro and Air in FacetTime HD camera, audio interface, backlit keyboard, touch screen on par, so we look into the hardware upgrade up.

Pro Turbo speed can be upgraded to 3.6Ghz (Air up to 3.2Ghz), memory can be increased to 8GB (Air may also increase to 8GB), you are free to choose to install the regular hard drive or Apple's own solid state drive, hard disk can be increased 1TB (Air maximum increased SDD512GB).

Air DRAM chip is directly soldered to the motherboard (Pro with the standard SO - DIMM slots); Air only supports Apple's own SDD solid state hard disk, Pro, support for solid state drive and hard; Air rely mainly on custom SDD module, Pro Support for any standard Sata drive. A few years later, you can upgrade to Pro to a better configuration, but the Air die.

Results: The Pro, wins

Finally, we conclude that the space of Pro CPU, hard disk, interface, CD-ROM, upgrade all aspects of winning, the Air has obvious advantages in terms of weight, the other four aspects of a tie, so decided to buy Which Macbook good judgment.

Just remember, based on past experience, if you do the work contains a large number of visual requirements of the Air high resolution and can not compensate for the limitations of the color saturation. So the time to buy more from their own reality, you will regret less.