Chasing 'trons

I got my new 11 inch MacBook Air in the mail yesterday. One of the first things I did was to install one of my most used, applications MATLAB (r2009a). I figured I’d run bench, MATLAB’s built-in series of benchmark. I’ve never actually used bench before, but perhaps there’s another MATLAB user out there who is thinking of getting this new little computer. I don’t have much to say about it, since I’m not a MATLAB power-user, but it works for me. Here’s my results:

11 inch MacBook Air & MATLAB benchmark, raw numbers

11 inch MacBook Air & MATLAB benchmark, relative speed

And here’s my setup:

Update on Monday, December 6, 2010 at 8:02 by

Jay Kickliter

I think I fixed the image problems. Also, I should I give my opinion. If you see the results, it may not look that great. But I’ve been using MATLAB on the Air, and find it totally usable. It’s easy to get lost in the numbers, but as long as you aren’t doing massive number crunching, it’s fine.