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| - | [* black] With the heavy bits removed, we catch the logic board before it floats away. Turning it over, we |
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| + | [* black] With the heavy bits removed, we catch the logic board before it floats away. Turning it over, we found the heart of the matter: |
| [* red] 1.6 GHz Intel [http://ark.intel.com/products/84984/Intel-Core-i5-5250U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_70-GHz|Core i5 5250U|new_window=true] Processor, with integrated Intel HD Graphics 6000 | |
| [* orange] Intel [http://ark.intel.com/products/76721/Intel-DSL5520-Thunderbolt-2-Controller|DSL5520|new_window=true] Thunderbolt 2 Controller | |
| [* yellow] GL3219 Genesys Logic SDXC Controller | |
| [* green] [http://www.linear.com/product/LT3957|LT3957|new_window=true] Linear Technologies Inverting Controller | |
| [* icon_note] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwell_(microarchitecture)|Broadwell|new_window=true] is mainly a die shrink of the existing architecture (meaning [http://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/10/macbook-pro-2015-benchmarks/|not a lot has changed performance-wise|new_window=true], but a new manufacturing process makes the transistors smaller, and therefore more power efficient by up to 30%). | |
| [* black] In contrast, the integrated Intel HD Graphics 6000 brings a legit graphics performance boost (roughly a 20-25% improvement over HD 5000). |