OWC unboxes, tears down the new MacBook Airs

11 Mar 2015 • appleworld.today

With the 13-inch MacBook Air (AKA 13” 2015 MacBook Air7,2 SSD), the company not only did a teardown but also ran benchmarks on the solid-state drive (a four-lane PCIe SSD) to see just how fast it was. Running the QuickBench 4.0 suite – also Apple World Today’s favorite drive benchmarking tool – they found that the extended file tests came in at 1,388 MB/second read and 1,216 MB/second write.

Crazy. Fast.