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That runtime beats the ZenBook 3 (7:05) and HP Spectre (6:06) by more than 2 hours, and really means the difference between being able to leave your charger behind or having to take it with you. MORE: Laptops with the Longest Battery Life On the Laptop Mag Battery Test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi, the system lasted 9 hours and 29 minutes. The 12-inch MacBook beats all of the skinniest laptops in one key area: endurance. The MateBook X hit 71 fps and the Zenbook 3 47 fps, and that was at a higher 1920 x 1080 resolution. Even with the racing game Dirt 3 set to a low 1400 x 900 pixels, the system mustered only 23.6 frames per second. The MacBook's Intel HD 615 graphics aren't great for gaming. The ZenBook 3, HP Spectre, XPS 13 and MateBook X all took longer than 3:30. On our OpenOffice test, which matches 20,000 names and addresses, the MacBook Air finished in 3 minutes and 2 seconds. The 12-inch screen on the MacBook wouldn't be my first choice of for working on large spreadsheets, but this machine certainly has the muscle to crunch numbers. However, the ZenBook 3s 508 MBps is tops. It turned in a smoking fast 467 MBps transfer rate, which is more than twice as speedy as the MateBook X and considerably faster than the last MacBook (355 MBps), the XPS 13 (339 MBps) and HP Spectre (299 MBps). On the other hand, the MacBook offers a faster SSD than other notebooks in its class. I had no problem editing a photo in Pixelmator while streaming Spotify with more than a dozen tabs open in both Safari and Chrome. That's below the category average of 7,218, and it also trails the HP Spectre (7,888), ZenBook 3 (7,449) and MateBook X (8,419), all of which pack 7th-generation Core i7 chips. On Geekbench 4, which measures overall performance, the MacBook notched 6,853.

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However, other Windows ultraportables with full-power Core i7 CPUs are faster. Overall, I found the entry-level MacBook quite responsive.

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(You can upgrade to a Core i5 or Core i7 Y Series CPU. You also get 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD that promises more speed than the last model. Because the MacBook sports a fanless design, it comes standard with a 7th-generation 1.2-GHz Core m3 processor that's optimized for efficiency. It's taken a while, but the MacBook finally has a faster, Kaby Lake chip inside.

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