#HTE

Depending on the lighting, the rose gold version of Apple’s new, slightly faster MacBook looks either kind of bronze or incredibly pink. Sitting here on my desk next to last year’s space gray version, it’s so vibrant it looks almost like I would get an electric zap of energy if I touched it.

The speed improvement on the inside are not quite as electric. Apple gave us the 1.2Ghz Intel Core m5 version to test, and though I can notice the difference, it’s small enough that it’s not an easy or automatic upgrade from the previous MacBook. I ran a few benchmark tests and have been poking around for the last twenty minutes or so — nothing too crazy — and here’s the long and short of it. Geekbench 3 pegs the speed improvements on raw processor…

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