Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Air SSD Really Is Twice as Fast as Previous Model

[leicaman]

This article aged well...

Indeed, but how many mae culpas are going to be said for the link-baiting frenzy?

 

[leicaman]

Because all disk access is 50% slower
That impacts everything, even just opening apps

And if you fill up the RAM, the swap performance/enjoyment will get hammered by the very much slower SSDs now.

They are so fast that really is a non-issue. You compare the slowest M2 to any PC laptop, it's going to look good.

And anyone serious about such performance is not going to buy a laptop for that kind of money and not spend the money to go at least 1TB. If they want 256 to save a buck, they are not going to notice the difference.

 

[turbineseaplane]

You compare the slowest M2 to any PC laptop, it's going to look good.

I'm comparing them to their direct predecessor -- which is the most relevant comparison one could make.

Let's just be honest here ... This particular aspect is a downgrade from the M1

It's ok to say that ... we can still love Apple and admit not everything they do is always forward progress in all areas.

 

[turbineseaplane]

And anyone serious about such performance

It's applicable to any users really, especially given the base RAM that's included.

Any type of user - even just a general web user - can rather easily load up 8GB RAM and be into the swap and the 50% slower SSD immediately comes into play -- even for basic users.

 

[Apple_Robert]

For those curious: I just did a speed test on my M1 MBA (256) 2145 write - 2835.4 read. My M2 (1TB) gets about the same read speed as the M1 with the write speed about 3250.

 

[Jack Neill]

It's applicable to any users really, especially given the base RAM that's included.

Any type of user - even just a general web user - can rather easily load up 8GB RAM and be into the swap and the 50% slower SSD immediately comes into play -- even for basic users.

Especially when your MP3 software takes up 1.5gb of ram..

 

[Jack Neill]

You compare the slowest M2 to any PC laptop

The XPS plus is 1299 and has a PCIe 4.0 512 as a base. So not really. Apple Silicon shines against Intel in other areas though. I just think this SSD thing is disappointing. I had a early 2020 Air and it was awesome, when the M1 near doubled the SSD speed I was really impressed. Now we're going backwards... Probably doesn't matter for the majority of users but its still worth noting and endlessly debating on forum boards.

 

[stylinexpat]

For those curious: I just did a speed test on my M1 MBA (256) 2145 write - 2835.4 read. My M2 (1TB) gets about the same read speed as the M1 with the write speed about 3250.

I thought it would be much better and faster, thanks for sharing. Am looking for read/write speeds for 1TB with24gb RAM shared.