Solid State Drive vs Regular Hard Drive Performance Test on Apple MacBook Air Laptop

The Apple MacBook Air notebook comes in two versions: one with a regular 1.8-inch hard drive (the same as used in the iPod) and another with an SSD solid-state drive. Apart from the difference in hard drives, the SSD version of the MacBook Air also has a higher CPU frequency. However, the price increase is even more startling. So, is the SSD version of the MacBook Air worth the cost? Some people have already tested both the regular 1.8-inch hard drive version and the SSD version of the MacBook Air at an Apple specialty store using a demo unit. The testing software used was Xbench 1.3, and below are the results comparing the performance test scores: