The Samsung SSD will be found in 256 and 512GB models while a SanDisk ‘Marvell based’ SSD is found in the 128GB SSD contained MBA.Ĭlicking on any of our charts or photographs will bring up a larger high resolution version. Once the base of the 2013 MBA is removed, the most prominent feature (at least to an SSD guy) is the Samsung NGFF PCIe SSD. The new 2013 MBA has set itself up for a definite following. 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.
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