macbook air vista performance

Thinking about running Windows Vista on a new Apple MacBook Air? Well according to the folks at PC World, don’t expect earth shattering performance. Vista on MacBook Air (via BootCamp) scored a 61 on PC World’s WorldBench 6 test - slower than the top-rated ultraportable - the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 which scored an 86 on the same test. It certainly isn’t the slowest ultra-portable out there either but don’t expect blazing speeds. Of course when you consider that the system utilizes a blazingly slow hard drive inside, is it any surprise that the MacBook Air would be a tad bit slow?

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