Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Small update, nothing behind it? So boring, yet grand is the new 12-inch MacBook


The MacBook with its 12-inch Retina display is a great device, but still missing little things to greatness, which Apple gave little attention in the latest update days ago just over seven. Too bad, because it could be so good. In it, the tester of the different publications are unanimous. We have summarized the most important opinions on the new MacBook for you.

This is new in the MacBook 2016

With the 12-inch MacBook Apple introduced last year an ultra portable device that outwardly little changed this year. It only came to the new color rose gold added to the selection. The real innovations play rather from inside. So Apple used a faster flash memory and a better 8 GB 1866 MHz LPDDR3 memory. is fueled by the power the new dual-core Intel Core M processors are available with clock speeds of up to 1.3 GHz. In addition, Apple donated the MacBook Intel HD Graphics 515 graphics chip, which promises significant performance gains in graphics applications.

What does the trade press about the new MacBook?

For Dieter Bohn of The Verge, the new device really feels 25 percent faster than its predecessor:

If you're worried about the speed, you have to feel you 25 percent better one to buy.

Even the isolated USB-C port lets him continue to despair because in addition to the at least 1,449 euros expensive Mac come several hundred euros for adapters, cables and other accessories. Whereby Bohn notes that the availability and prices for the accessories to improve slowly. In addition, he is also briefly mentioned the new color and says that the rose gold depending on the angle and light between Bronze and Pink.

Similar words finds Dana Wollman of Engadget. According to her performance increase is particularly noticeable in the graphics performance and also the additional hour of battery life it can confirm. Wollman took within its test even faster SSD. Your model decreed it a 512-GB flash memory, the it on a read speed of 947 MB / s respectively to a write speed of 845 MB / s managed the benchmark. The predecessor brought it straight to 738.2 MB / s (read) and to only 451.7 MB / s when writing.

Where there is light, of course, there is also shadow. They, as well as Dieter Bohn, criticized the individual USB-C port and the battery life that may have become better, but competitors like still inferior to the Surface Share Microsoft something.

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