It can just about scrape by with games, like Invisible Inc and Papers Please. The MacBook Air’s Intel HD 6000 is now about as powerful as some real entry-level dedicated laptop cards from a couple of years ago. It’s obviously not a gaming machine, lacking a dedicated graphics card, but even that is slowly getting better. So what can’t you do with the Air? Not much. It scores 170.9ms in Sunspider test and 5214 in Geekbench 3 (32-bit), which isn’t a huge boost, and is still way, way below what a MacBook Pro will get you. The laptop we’re testing has the same dual-core 1.6GHz Intel Core i5 CPU as last year’s model, but OS X El Capitan seems to have ensured a slightly faster performance than last year. It’s just that its CPUs come from a class of chips that care more about efficiency than heatsink-melting power. It’s not that the MacBook Air is slow: it uses the latest-generation Intel Broadwell processors.
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