Completely irrelevant... the Air doesn’t have the performance to leverage the speed of the current SSD anyway.
Would be great if people here stop whining and bring a single scenario that they use on their Air in which they would notice the slower SSD. I think even archive extraction is CPU limited on the Air...
Would be great if people here stop whining and bring a single scenario that they use on their Air in which they would notice the slower SSD. I think even archive extraction is CPU limited on the Air...
I wouldn’t generally say TLC or even QLC is bad. In fact, MLC these days lasts longer than 1st gen SLC SSDs did. And a decent TLC SSD will live longer than cheap MLC SSDs. Personally, I would prefer if the device is delivered with a 1024 GB QLC SSD, practically, that’s the same as 512GB MLC. After a while the SSD will age and have trouble operating in QLC. Then it should be possible to select MLC or even SLC Mode in the firmware, which should extend the useful life of the NAND chips well beyond the rest of the laptop at the cost of actual storage dropping to 512 or 256GB respectively. That said... you really need to be a heavy user to exhaust modern SSDs.It is, but that wasn't my point, fact is Apple uses more expensive MLC chips, I myself wouldn't touch TLC, just my preference.