How fast does your Macbook perform simple operations?

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Friends, I ask for help, I want to determine if my Macbook Air 2012 is worth it, on Macbook Pro.
I ask you to try some simple operations on macbook and measure the speed of their execution. But not on a freshly loaded laptop, but on one that has been working for more than 4+ hours, 20+ tabs are open in the browser, 10-15+ programs are running. In general, a normal busy working day. Perform operations without "preparation" - so that there are no document-sites in memory on which we are doing the check.
Particularly interesting are the results on MAcbook Pro late 2013 13"
I think this statistic will be useful to many and will allow you to compare performance in working with your hardware, all sorts of Geekbench are far from what you encounter every day.
Operations:
1. Open the document in excel 2011 (time from clicking on the document to displaying the document on the screen, not displaying the excel window, namely the document, any simple document 50-100 kb in size.)
2. Open lifehacker.ru and without waiting for the site to load, scroll all the way down in Chrome (time from the appearance of the first elements of the site on the screen, until we see the bottom menu of the site.)
3. Quicklook (space) on a jpg image (time from pressing the button until the image appears on the screen, any image of size 50 -100 kb.)
My results for Air 2012 13", OS X 10.9.1:
1. Opening an excel document
7.1 sec.
2. Opening in Chrome and scrolling lifehacker.ru
6.5 sec.
3. Quicklook jpg-file
3.8 sec.
The same laptop, but Windows 8.1 OS:
1. Opening an excel document, office 2010
1.3 sec.
2. Opening in Chrome and scrolling lifehacker.ru
3.1 sec.
3. Quicklook jpg-file (Windows does not have Qucklook, time to open the image by the viewer)
1.1 sec.
It would be cool if the Pro could achieve such results on OS X.

Answer 1

A 100MB SQL file and a 100KB JPG file open instantly with quicklook (less than a second, exactly). Air 2011. You're just doing something wrong.

Answer 2

there is no office, a medium file opens in numbers (10 pages) less than a second
chrome too lazy to set, in safari cmd-down less than a second
quicklook about a second (6-7mb photos)
maverick, mbpro mid2013 15 retina, battery powered (did not touch the power settings )
at the same time, a lot of everything is open, torrents are downloaded at 6MB / s, and so on

Answer 3

All proposed tasks are significantly less than a second. Mac Book Pro 13" mid 2013.

Answer 4

All tests within two seconds, without WINDOWS tests (don't have it). Macbook MD101 but with SSD drive and 16 GB of RAM. Works without reboot for 3 days in WEB-master mode.