Jason Discount: My personal take from the numbers is that Lion FileVault comes at a large performance hit on Core 2 Duo machines w/Toshiba drives; a performance hit that I would personally find unacceptable. Inversely, the performance hit on a Core i7 machine w/Samsung drive is 3x less drastic, and thus, for me, well worth … Continue reading MacBook Air SSD Benchmarks: 2010 vs 2011 vs Lion Encryption