#Pixel tester mac pro#

I would have preferred the option to plug in two monitors at once, which many Windows laptops in this price range offer.įor more details, check out our in-depth MacBook Air M2 benchmark results (opens in new tab) comparison with the MacBook Pro M2, and this report on MacBook Air M2 thermal throttling issues (opens in new tab). My biggest complaint is that the new Air is stuck supporting only a single external monitor (up to 6K). That’s a bummer, but I never felt like the Air M2 was slowing me down.

#Pixel tester mac plus#

See our MacBook Air M2 vs Dell XPS 13 Plus benchmark comparison (opens in new tab) for more info. Interestingly, the Dell XPS 13 Plus notched 4,879 and 3,638 MBps for writes and reads, so it was considerably faster. That’s slower than the same size 1TB SSD on the MacBook Pro M2 at 2,794 MBps/2,953 MBps, respectively, for reads and writes. On the Blackmagic Disk Speed test, the new Air’s 1TB SSD on our model averaged 2,800 MBps for reads and 2,210 for writes. There’s been some questions over whether the new MacBook Air would have a slow SSD. The Dell XPS 13 Plus scored only 670 in the Photoshop test and 279 in the Premiere Pro test. But the Pro widened its lead on the Premiere Pro video editing test, notching 552 compared to 452 for the new Air.

Interestingly, the MacBook Air M2 and MacBook Pro M2 were evenly matched in the PugetBench for Adobe CC Photoshop test. The Zenbook S 13 OLED took a speedier 8:15 but was still slower than the MacBook Air M2. The Dell XPS 13 Plus took 8:31 and the Yoga 9i needed over. However, the MacBook Pro M2, which has active cooling for better sustained performance, took a minute less than the new Air at 6:51. The previous Air M1 needed 9:15, so that’s quite an improvement. On our Handbrake video editing test, which involves transcoding a 4K video clip, the new MacBook Air M2 took 7 minutes and 52 seconds to complete the task. The Air M2 easily beats the best Windows laptops, defeating notebooks like the Asus Zenbook S 13 OLED (7,606) and Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 (7,140). However, the new Dell XPS 13 Plus with a 12th gen Intel Core i7 reached a higher 10,621. The MacBook Pro M2 was on par with the Air M2, reaching 1,898 and 8,911. That’s 11% faster on single core and 17% faster on mutli-core. On a slightly older 5.3 test, the MacBook Air M1 hit 1,736 on single core and 7,575 on multi-core. On Geekbench 5.4, which measures overall performance, the MacBook Air M2 hit 1,932 on the single-core CPU test and 8,919 on multi-core. But in general I didn’t notice a step down in performance for everyday tasks versus the MacBook Pro 14-inch with M1 Pro chip, which is a pretty big compliment. I noticed only one time when the new Air showed lag, and that was when I had more than 100 tabs open in Chrome across multiple windows. And the MacBook Air M2 powered through it all with ease. I was juggling dozens of open tabs in Google Chrome, jumping between lots of Slack messages and editing photos in Photoshop all while uploading files to our CMS. The best thing I can say about the MacBook Air M2 is that it easily handled my Prime Day deals workload (which is pretty freakin’ intense) with ease. When I played both laptops side by side, the Pro had a fuller bass and was less tinny, but it’s also $800 more.

The lyrics had plenty of room to breathe, and the beat was punchy enough, but the sound wasn’t as well rounded as the six-speaker sound system on the MacBook Pro 14. The MacBook Air M2’s four-speaker sound system is pretty good, delivering clear audio when I played “I Ain’t Worried” from One Republic on Spotify. However, the Air’s Delta-E accuracy score of 0.2 was the same as the XPS 13. The XPS 13 OLED notched a higher 117% and 83%, respectively. The Air M2’s display registered 107% of the sRGB color gamut and 75.9% of the more demanding DCI-P3 color space. Things looked just as good in terms of color reproduction and accuracy. That’s slightly better than what the MacBook Pro M2 turned in (474/490 nits) in the same tests and brighter than the Dell XPS 13 OLED’s 357-nit average. It averaged 489 nits of brightness and peaked at 495 nits with HDR content. The MacBook Air M2’s panel impressed in our lab tests as well.

Plus, the picture was bright enough that I could enjoy the action from wide viewing angles. While watching the trailer for Minions: The Rise of Gru, I was captivated by the level of detail in little Gru’s eyes, hair and scarf as he exploded down the road on a jet-powered bike. (Image credit: Tom's Guide) (opens in new tab)