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Initial tests point to 15% faster CPU performance, other changes in 2016 12-inch Retina MacBooks

Apple’s next-gen 12-inch retina MacBook is out the door and the numbers have been run on it. Over at Geekbench, Christina Warren noted that that 1.2 GHz configuration runs around 15 to 18 percent faster CPU performance compared to last year’s equivalent model. The notebook earned a single-core score of 2,894 and a multi-core score […]

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New details revealed as to Skylake processors that may be geared towards Retina MacBooks

New information for the Intel Skylake processors that are most likely to wind up in a MacBook Air has been released. The Skylake processors, which may be branded the “Core m3”, “Core m5” and “Core m7” offer the following specs: The low-end Core m3 6Y30 has a 900 MHz dual-core processor with Turbo Boost up […]