macbook air compilation tests Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1536MB on OS X 10.10.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core i5: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Apple SSD, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM0256F, Graphics: Intel HD 5000 1536MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.10.5, Kernel: 14.5.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.15.2, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 3.0 + GCC 4.2.1 + LLVM 3.0 + Xcode 6.4, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 1368.97 |====================================================== Intel Core i5 . 170.23 |======= Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core i5 . 61.37 |========================================================