Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 vs. MacBook Pro vs. Mac Mini

Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. 2013 Apple MacBook Air compared to Mac Mini sandy bridge and 2011 macbook pro.

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Apple OS X On MacBook Air 2013 vs. MacBook Pro vs. Mac Mini Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 5000 1024MB on OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com. 2013 Apple MacBook Air compared to Mac Mini sandy bridge and 2011 macbook pro. ,,"MacBook Air 2013","2011 MacBook Pro","2012 Mac Mini" Processor,,Intel Core i5 @ 1.30GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i5 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores),Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores) Motherboard,,Apple MacBook Air,Apple MacBook Pro,Apple Mac mini Chipset,,Apple SSD,Intel 5,Intel 6 Memory,,2 x 2048 DDR3-1600MHz,2 x 2048 DDR3-1067MHz,2 x 1024 DDR3-1333MHz Disk,,121GB APPLE SSD SD0128F,120GB OCZ-AGILITY2,500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302 Graphics,,Intel HD 5000 1024MB,Intel HD + NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 288MB,Intel HD 3000 288MB Monitor,,Color LCD,Color LCD,Acer P243W OS,,OS X 10.8.4 (12E3067),OS X 10.8.4,OS X 10.8.4 Kernel,,12.4.1 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64),12.4.0 (x86_64) Compiler,,GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.1,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3,Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.6.3 File-System,,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+,Journaled HFS+ Screen Resolution,,1366x768,1440x900,1920x1200 ,,"MacBook Air 2013","2011 MacBook Pro","2012 Mac Mini" "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,6197,5455,6181 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,118.97,129.36,127.74 "CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,0.53,0.73,0.65 "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,8656.33,7038.40,8570.60 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,407.43,249.70,243.00 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 800 x 600 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,17.95,21.83,32.92 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,17.15,21.75,29.95 "Nexuiz - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - HDR: Yes - Sound: Off (FPS)",HIB,16.48,22.28,39.46 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,22.73,20.63,24.57 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,1442,382,125 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,270.30,278.50,263.19 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,1024.03,740.35,940.07 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,343.24,375.69,383.55 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,193.19,141.24,182.49 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1662.38,904.59,1374.72 "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1802.27,1159.52,1630.16 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,1119.05,1120.72,1129.45 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,81.27,98.96,83.08 "Timed PHP Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,64.51,75.60,64.22 "Urban Terror - Resolution: 800 x 600 (FPS)",HIB,53.90,56.60,53.53 "Urban Terror - Resolution: 1366 x 768 (FPS)",HIB,52.67,56.73,30 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,110.16,80.04,134.11 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,105.19,80.22,130.33 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Low (FPS)",HIB,98.55,79.03,114.86 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,49.65,38.01,85.54 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,45.63,36.92,78.13 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: High (FPS)",HIB,43.95,35.30,58.44 "Xonotic - Resolution: 800 x 600 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,40.06,30.82,74.63 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1024 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,38.70,29.85,66.71 "Xonotic - Resolution: 1366 x 768 - Effects Quality: Ultra (FPS)",HIB,36.66,28.28,47.42