And guess what? It can be superior to the M1 MBA as a complete unit even if the base SSD is slower.
Do all the benchmarks show it is worse?
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Base Model MacBook Air With M2 Chip Has Slower SSD Speeds in Benchmarks
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Do all the benchmarks show it is worse?
Nobody would ever assume Apple would cut their SSD speeds in half. If you notice a pattern, every single model of Mac that has come out, they’ve always had the same or faster speeds for their SSDs for every generation. At no point has it gotten slower. This is the first time Apple has cut performance of any aspect of their computers by a significant margin. There’s no reason or justification for it. What’s incorrect is your defense of this decision.
You not seeing the point doesn’t make the point not exist.
And Apple never promised that SSD speeds will always be better. What's incorrect is your assumption of this trend to continue.
Is it possible that Apple might start equipping the M1 MacBook Air with the single NAND chip as well? I mean, is it technically possible?
I wondered if someone buying the M1 today thinking it will have faster SSD speeds than the M2 Air might find it's not the case.
Sorry if a dumb question (or if it's already been mentioned), I don't have enough knowledge about the designs of the machines.
I wondered if someone buying the M1 today thinking it will have faster SSD speeds than the M2 Air might find it's not the case.
Sorry if a dumb question (or if it's already been mentioned), I don't have enough knowledge about the designs of the machines.
I believe it is possible. Someone did suggest to open up new M1 MBAs to check when this was noticed for the M2 MBP.
The difference in speed doesn’t matter for average user between a 2015 MacBook air vs 2022 MacBook Air either. But that’s not the point. We are supposed to be progressing forward.
The problem is that apple is getting too powerful they no longer feel the need to put their best effort out there to woo customers. They can cut corners here and there and still get away with it. That’s a big shift away from Apple under Jobs. Apple back then creates controversy but it pushes society forward with guts. I don’t even mind the single USB-C MacBook and butterfly keyboard, because that’s what old Apple does. But now…No wonder Ivy has left. They company is now run by operation guys and finance people.
Again. Where does Apple give the SSD numbers for the 256GB config specifically on the product page or when configuring your M2 Air order?
Because I've asked for it and you all seem to suggest the 50% performance cut on the 256GB config is stated outright or can be deducted by reading the footnote about how the M2 chip in the 2TB config performs.
Would you be ok if the screen got worse?
Or if the newer machine was noticeably heavier?
What if it had half the battery life of the predecessor?
With respect, your line of thinking and argumentation here is non-sensical.
No one ever said that. You're the one demanding for 256 GB benchmarks. The absence of it means Apple never claimed anything about its performance.
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Yes - See MBPs
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As long as the overall package is an improvement over the predecessor
I'm not proposing numbers for the 256GB, I'm not even sure how you'd come up with that. No mind gymnastics here, just quoting the Apple web page.
That's not the overall package, i.e. the MBA itself
Yes it is. That’s part of the overall package. When a component’s performance gets cut in half, that has an affect on the overall package.
Trade-offs must be a hard concept huh. Not every constituent part has to be better to produce a better overall package.
A steering wheel is part of a car. The full car is the full car.
SSD is part of a laptop. The full laptop is the full laptop.