Lab Tested: CTO 11-inch MacBook Air an impressive performer
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Macworld Lab recently tested a configure-to-order (CTO) 13-inch MacBook Air, set up as what we call an “ultimate” configuration with upgrades to the processor, RAM, and storage. But since that story ran, we've heard from readers who want to know how a similarly outfitted 11-inch MacBook Air compares. I'm not sure if those readers think that the 13-inch MacBook Air is too big, too heavy, or too expensive, but we bought and tested an ultimate 11-inch CTO MacBook Air to get them some answers.
This CTO 11-inch MacBook Air takes the standard $1199 system with a 1.3GHz dual core Core i5 processor, 256GB of flash storage, and 4GB of RAM and boosts the laptop with a faster 1.7GHz dual core Core i7 processor (an additional $150), 8GB of RAM ($100) and 512GB of fast flash storage ($300), for a total price of $1749. The processor, RAM, and flash capacity of the CTO 11-inch configuration are identical to the specs of the ultimate CTO 13-inch MacBook Air previously profiled. That 13-inch model costs $100 more, due to its larger display and higher battery capacity.
Speedmark 8
11" MacBook Air/1.7GHz Core i7 CTO (Mid 2013) 205.0
11" MacBook Air/1.3GHz Core i5 (Mid 2013) 165.0
13" MacBook Air/1.7GHz Core i7 CTO (MId 2013) 204.0
11" MacBook Air/1.7GHz Core i5 (Mid 2012) 151.0
13" MacBook Air 13/1.7GHz Core i5 (Mid 2011) 127.0
13" Retina MacBook Pro/2.6GHz Core i5 (Early 2013) 190.0
Higher results/longer bars are better.—Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Albert Filice, and Jeff Sandstoe
As you’d expect with such comparable systems, the two CTO configurations performed very similarly. In fact, just one point separated the two CTO MacBook Airs in our overall system performance benchmark suite, Speedmark 8. Most tests finished within a second or two of each other.
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