Already a subscriber?We’ve all been there: lined up to board some cramped bus or plane, behind someone who’s two metres wide at the shoulders, silently praying to the travel gods, “Please don’t have me sit me next to that person. Please don’t have me sit me next to that person. Anyone but that person.”
This very scenario played out two days ago, after I volunteered to be the guinea pig in an experiment we ran here in the Digital Life Labs to see if there werecircumstances in which the new 13-inch M3 MacBook Air would be preferable to the new 15-inch M3 MacBook Air..
In our benchmark tests, the top-end 15-inch M3 MacBook Air shows up as 81 per cent faster for single-core performance and 20 per cent faster for multi-core performance than the, even though the Microsoft machine is a pricey workstation that should more properly be compared with a MacBook Pro. The Pro is much heavier, it’s thicker and wider, and I shudder to think what that 7-hour bus ride would have been like with that beast on my lap the whole time.