Fine, but don't charge a premium price for a non-premium product then. The amount Apple charges for SSDs is out of this world.
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Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
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It's an unpopular opinion because it's besides the point, the point is Apple is nerfing SSD speeds compared to the previous generation without telling anybody. Even if you don't use 90% of the power of the machine, it's sad cheap strategy by trillion dollar company.
You're right, I won't buy this machine. I've bought the 14-inches already. And multiple Macbooks before that, and some iPads, and iPhone... Two iPod touch back in the day, oh and an iPod classic.
I'm sure after all that I can consider myself an Apple user so even when I'm not buying this specific model, I (and many here) feel entitled to complain about cheap decision making by a trillion dollar company. And to point out when Apple does something wrong, so we can keep the premium quality of the products we buy spending the premium level money we spend. But hey, you keep whining about us instead of a corporation trying to squeeze you for money.
Pretty soon even PC people will start paying those are a NAND Flash shortage is looming.
This guys get it.
I'll be the devil's advocate here. Those speeds quoted are meaningless as they are the sequential speeds. For day to day operation what ultimately matters is Random 4K speeds @ QD1 speeds.
Sorry but no laptop with "Pro" in the name should come with 8GB of RAM.
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This is just BS.
C'mon, Apple.
It's this type of 'one step forward, two steps back' crap that pisses me off about you as a company.
Can you for once update a machine's internals without finding a way to cripple it?
I REALLY hope that the M2 MBAs are NOT crippled like this.
C'mon, Apple.
It's this type of 'one step forward, two steps back' crap that pisses me off about you as a company.
Can you for once update a machine's internals without finding a way to cripple it?
I REALLY hope that the M2 MBAs are NOT crippled like this.
You do realize this machine is exactly the same as the 2020 model, which in turns uses exactly the same chassis as the 2016, right? And that Apple is the company with the biggest margins of the entire computer industry, right?
Yet, here we are, justifying them cheaping out in an SSD chip that costs them $25 in a $1300 machine (manufacturing cost for them around $600) , and using the phrase "Apple is struggling" just a year or so after it became the first trillion dollar company.
I really don't understand anything at this point.
If it's a supply chain issue, they will.This is just BS.
C'mon, Apple.
It's this type of 'one step forward, two steps back' crap that pisses me off about you as a company.
Can you for once update a machine's internals without finding a way to cripple it?
I REALLY hope that the M2 MBAs are NOT crippled like this.
Keep up the good work Joe and I hope you enjoyed your time with your family.In fairness, I chose to enjoy my sunny Saturday with family! MacRumors writers deserve some time off too. I still voluntarily chipped in this front page story on a Sunday despite not getting paid overtime, and I believe we are the first major blog to cover the story. So give us a little bit of credit
If you switch from one computer to another with half the storage speed, you're going to notice. The average person will not know why or even exactly what is slower, but they will be able to feel a difference. Storage affects everything from swap memory (which MacOS relies on heavily esp low RAM models), waking from sleep, opening programs, etc.
I think in the context of the Air model, this drive speed is confusing for some. For example, one of the benefits of the pro model is cooling, which should allow sustained loads for longer. For example, exporting media such as video or batches of photos. Those tasks will suffer from slower drive speed. It seems to somehow dilute the benefit of getting this model over the Air model.
If you work with extra larger (over 1GB files) then sure, you'll notice. Otherwise, likely you won't.
Never said so, this article is about the base M2 MBP. I would say that it’s not acceptable either on the Air, but being a general consumer laptop, I’d think most of its users would never see the difference, as opposed to a device aimed at professionals. It’s not more acceptable, but maybe an issue for less people
None of that is relevant whatsoever. It should be, at the very least, the same performance as the previous model. No exceptions or reasons or excuses.
It’s the chip shortages.
You think that’s bad?
VW is shipping most US cars without any rear sensors meaning no blind spot or rear traffic monitors. You get a $500 discount (yeah, right) but you can’t add it back later.
You think that’s bad?
VW is shipping most US cars without any rear sensors meaning no blind spot or rear traffic monitors. You get a $500 discount (yeah, right) but you can’t add it back later.
A drive that can move way more bytes per second random access will read both large and small files more quickly.