My school updated our macOS labs in the library to M1 iMacs in silver. I was expecting them to be the base models but they are the highest specced iMac besides the SSD -- a mere 1TB each! Not sure why, and whoever set them up (we have a horrible IT department) did so in a way that makes them painfully slow compared to the 2015 iMacs we had previously
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Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Has Significantly Slower SSD Speeds
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In all likelihood, the NAND chips for iPhone are priority over those for a Mac should a shortage be affecting Apple.
Something more than sequential and 4K speed, is wear leveling. Having more NAND flash means one of them won‘t just die prematurely (writing can be distributed across multiple NAND chips), potentially making those SSD lasting longer. Remember, when those MacBook internal drive dies, your only option is to visit Apple Store for a repair. External boot is NOT POSSIBLE. Having only one NAND means that one NAND is going to wear out faster than those with 2 or more NAND chips.
Maybe Apple couldn’t be bothered to order 128GB chips anymore. Maybe there’s not even a single manufacturer building 128GB NAND or below in bulk at this point anymore. We don’t know. But sacrificing NAND lifespan to cheap out a little bit while still charging a ridiculous premium is unthinkable.
Maybe Apple couldn’t be bothered to order 128GB chips anymore. Maybe there’s not even a single manufacturer building 128GB NAND or below in bulk at this point anymore. We don’t know. But sacrificing NAND lifespan to cheap out a little bit while still charging a ridiculous premium is unthinkable.
So much misery and whining here! even 1,450 MB/s is screamingly fast. No one who buys this machine will ever notice and no one who worries about disk speed will buy this model anyway/ Just more FUD for MF
The problem with Macs in school environments is that schools tend to install several apps for monitoring and security software. These apps are resource hogs and will slow down any computer; even more if the security apps aren't optimized for Apple Silicon.
Maybe the purchaser demanded 16GB, but Apple only offers 16GB standard iMac SKU in that 4-port 16GB 1TB config (this is also available as in-store walk-in / pickup). I think this is a right call, having more storage helps performance and SSD provisioning down the road, even if most of its capacity is unused, and the price difference from the base 256GB isn't that far away.
As to how they are setup slower than 2015's, maybe there are mostly Intel apps running?
My first mac, a birthday present from my grandma. OMG the cost of that SSD (yes, I BTOd it)
$867 for a measly 64GB SSD, which was way faster than the stock HDDs in any laptop.
We all know you can't do that. The point is that super fast storage is cheap, yet this $1000+ laptop is woefully underspecced in that category.
Furthermore, it wouldn't surprise me to see Apple drop support for this machine sooner than other 2022 Macs because of the lower SSD speeds. They've already drawn a line in the sand with iPad SSD speeds, nothing to say they won't do it with Macs as well.
/me wonders how it can run Stage Manager with a SSD “slow” as the iPad2020 has and just 2GB RAM more. 😱
Apple loves to sell crap that will become obsolete and unsupported soon.
My condolences to the buyers.
Apple loves to sell crap that will become obsolete and unsupported soon.
My condolences to the buyers.
Shame they didn’t bump the base storage to 512GB really, tiny cost increase to them and then no problem. Their margins must be huge on this old design by now.
For iPhone Pro, yes. But somehow, I doubt $479 iPhone SE or $549 iPhone 11 has priority over $1,299 MacBook Pro.
Yes, that is true. However, it is also true that each manufacturing site has their own stock already and the SE or 11 aren't big sellers anymore. Lot's of "ifs"
After so many integrated graphics Intel models with poor performance, is it really horrible, though?
Not really - 1.4GB/sec is hardly slow.
I'd happily have the "slow" one if it's a hundred bucks cheaper - which it probably is.
Don't forget MacOS caches files in RAM if possible. There won't be any difference when that's happening.
Yes and people are forgetting that the RAM bandwidth has been doubled to 100 GBPS on this new MBP M2. Maybe this factored into why Apple put a single 256 GB NAND chip.
Apple only have 1 Laptop that isn’t labelled “pro” at the moment. Everything is basically “pro” with them. I think people should stop reading into the name. It’s meaningless when it comes to their laptops at least.
For everyone saying it wont be noticeable, I am not an expert but if you open a file or an app and it takes double the time to read the file, how can it not be noticeable? Okay, the new Mac will feel snappier because of the smell of the new device and the placebo effect but sorry, I don't bite it. It will be slower.
Lol my M1 MBA has better read/write speeds than the M2 13" Pro.
How bizarre.
How bizarre.