Gizmodo has gotten their hands on the new Apple Macbook Air. The first thing they did was benchmark the performance of the MacBook Air with the other laptops at Apple.

It turns out that the MacBook Air is just as fast as a MacBook at 2.0 ghz (The MacBook Air was running at 1.6 ghz). This is quite impressive when it is clearly running at slower clock speeds. The conclusion was made that the MacBook Air is clearly quite a performer and doesn't suffer from the problem many ultra portables do from slow processors and hard drives. We can only imagine how much faster a 64 GB SSD version of the laptop will be.