Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds

[kyykesko]

It won’t be noticeable at all for 99% of the target user base.

Even a SATA SSD is fast enough that there is no perceivable difference in daily use vs an NVMe.

The only people who will whine are the users on this forum, who already wouldn’t buy this laptop.

It’s a nothingburger.

Sorry, but you are not "99% of the target user base". You may be happy with even a floppy disk drive's speed, but it doesn't take much to see the difference between a NVMe and a SATA SSD in real life. My 80+yo father noticed it immediately and he knows next to nothing about computers. He was only worried that something was broken when the device he used for a short while was all of a sudden so much slower than he expected.

If you actually use your computer for anything you do notice the disk speeds. CPU speeds not so much. Many are happy with a slow CPU as long as the disks are fast enough, and suddenly offering last decade's speeds at today's prices is just pure greed. Nothing else.

 

[Kenjutsuz]

Sorry, but you are not "99% of the target user base". You may be happy with even a floppy disk drive's speed, but it doesn't take much to see the difference between a NVMe and a SATA SSD in real life. My 80+yo father noticed it immediately and he knows next to nothing about computers. He was only worried that something was broken when the device he used for a short while was all of a sudden so much slower than he expected.

If you actually use your computer for anything you do notice the disk speeds. CPU speeds not so much. Many are happy with a slow CPU as long as the disks are fast enough, and suddenly offering last decade's speeds at today's prices is just pure greed. Nothing else.

I Agree. Step up Tim...No old inventory..sell it off

 

[FreedomPenguin]

It really bugs me that they keep doing this stuff. Apple used to be a company you could trust for the most part. They had a culture of trying to make great products. Now they have a culture of trying to make as much money as possible by cutting corners they think they can get away with

2022 is the year I finally realized it had changed

See I personally see no issue here. I actually support the change if it brings more money in stocks.

 

[levander]

See I personally see no issue here. I actually support the change if it brings more money in stocks.

I’m a stock holder too. Have been since the 90’s. Finding ways to give your customers less of a product may save you a nickel today, but it’ll cost you a dollar tomorrow, Apple charges premium prices, They should have premium products. And that reputation has already fallen off from what it used to be.

Apple has developed such a strong position in the computer industry, the only ones who can mess up their growth is themselves. And this cutting cormers squelching on quality software, they’re really starting to work on messing it up.