![]() Add to that the fact that it is based on the new Haswell chipset and it is the first with the new PCIe storage solution, a solution that will definitely appeal to media professionals who transfer countless gigabytes of media files on a daily basis. ![]() No other laptop on the market can reach 12 hours battery life, and it’s build and pricing model consistent with the last generation MBA, make purchase a no-brainer for those looking to purchase the Mac experience. We are not going to belabor this report by rehashing things that we stated in the linked reports above, but to say that the new 2013 is an amazing ultra, regardless of what we discovered while testing this system in a Windows 7 environment. This understanding may save potential buyers of SSD contained systems a great deal of money or….may cost them a great deal of money unnecessarily. Our storage review of the new 2013 MBA is a great opportunity to illustrate the need to understand different storage performance and in very common language. While testing in Windows 7, performance had even increased from 794MB/s to 824MB/s and, on the outset, this machine appears to the screaming thunder of storage performance. ![]() To be frank, our PC benchmarking of this SSD resulted in some of the worst SSD performance we have seen to date and we don’t believe this to be the fault of the Samsung PCIe SSD. ![]() Since our initial MBA reports, we have had the opportunity to do what we do best and install Windows 7 on the MBA, followed by complete testing of the new Samsung PCIe SSD in a Windows environment. If you’ve been hanging around TSSDR or Technology X lately, you will have noticed that Apple shipped us a brand smacking new MBA, complete with a Samsung 256GB NGFF PCIe SSD that spits out performance as high as 825MB/s. ![]()
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