

However, the Air's display falls down on some other display metrics. However, the 2014 Air was even faster, completing the task in 3 minutes and 46 seconds.Īt 334 nits, the Air's brightness is on a par with the HP x360 (339 nits) and is brighter than the typical ultraportable (272 nits), the nontouch XPS 13 (298), the Asus UX305 (281) and the Lenovo Yoga Pro (318). That's a minute faster than the XPS 13 (5:02) and the HP x360 (5:04), and more than twice as fast as the average (8:33). The Air also dominated the competition on our Spreadsheet test, matching 20,000 names and addresses in 4 minutes and 3 seconds. On Geekbench 3, which measures overall performance, the Air's Core i5-5250U processor scored 5,783, which just edges out the XPS 13 (5,530) and the HP x360 (5,614), which have slightly less powerful Core i5-5200U CPUs. That's twice as fast as its predecessor (190.3 MBps), the Yoga 3 Pro (175 MBps), the Asus UX305 (154.2 MBps) and the HP x360 (141.4 MBps). It duplicated 4.97GB of multimedia files at a rate of 358.4 MBps. The 128GB PCIe-based flash storage in the Air is leagues better than that offered by the competition.

While better than average, the Asus UX305 (9:38) and HP x360 (9:28) simply can't match the Air's endurance. Among competing systems, only the nontouch version of the XPS 13 came close, at 11:42.
