The recently released 2014 MacBook Airs are seeing improved processor performance all due to updated Haswell chips, but storage performance appears to have declined. In a series of performance benchmark tests performed by Macworld, tests of the flash storage suggested the new MacBook Airs are performing slower than 2013 MacBook Airs.

The comparison, which included a 2013 11-inch MacBook Air with a 256 GB SSD and a 2013 13-inch MacBook Air with a 128 GB SSD vs a 2014 11-inch model with a 128 GB SSD and a 13-inch model with a 256 GB SSD, found that the 2014 models were twice

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