MacBook Air beat the netbook series running Windows 7

The well-known technology website PC World announced the results of Apple's new laptop speed test with 14 ultra-thin and light products, the same size as other brands.

PC World installed Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system in two Macbook Air models and used WorldBench 6 software and Call of Duty 4 and DiRT 2 games to measure speed.

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Performance comparison table between MacBook Air and competitors.

With the WorldBench 6 application, the MacBook Air of 11.6 inches ($ 1,200) gives a score of up to 74, which is much higher than other top netbooks of only 55. When playing games, Apple laptops It also outperformed its rivals by integrating Nvidia 320M graphics card. However, netbook models give longer battery life from 6.5 to 10 hours, while the MacBook Air is only 4 hours long.

For a 13.3-inch model ($ 1,300) also offers higher performance than other products and only succumbs to the Asus U33jc model ($ 1,000).