Air-y speculation

[Mark Smith]

On 26.02.2008, at 11:40, Jared Earle wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Mark Smith
> <markds.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> In my short tests I'd say that even the 1.6 GHz 80GB model is faster
>> than my 2GHz Macbook (1. Gen). A little of that might be down to
>> having a nice fresh disk with minimal fragmentation
>
> Core Duo vs Core 2 Duo perhaps? ;)

Sure. I thought that went without saying, but I wouldn't have expected  
such a noticable difference between the Core Duo at 2 GHz with a 5400  
rpm disk and the Core 2 Duo at 1.6 GHz with a 4200 rpm disk if the  
disks were in a similar state. They weren't, the 4200 in the MBA was  
half-full and likely minimally if at all fragmented. The disk in my  
Macbook is very near full and likely seriously fragmented.