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Base Model MacBook Air With M2 Chip Has Slower SSD Speeds in Benchmarks
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It's hilarious how people will grab on to something, anything, no matter how ridiculous it is, and pass that on as fact. For someone else to grab onto. And on, and on, and on.
So you're basically just here to whine about a product you have no intentions on buying.
It's as if people go out of their way to to cling to conspiracy theories and making onerous stuff up, just so they can tell the world how faux-outraged they are. The new normal.
It is the internet version of the telephone game also. One things leads to another to another and before you know it, Apple promised us M2 Ultra abilities in this Air.
Unless you want the nicer screen, bigger screen, magsafe charging and new body style. Then it really boils down to personal choice.
Is it material if the rest of the SOC improvements result in better overall performance for users in this category? Meaning, the actual target audience for an Air?
Not happy. Was thinking this might happen to the Air too after seeing the lower SSD speeds in 13” Pro. Looks like buying a variant with 512GB SSD might be the smart move.
What is surprising me is how many people here are defending Apple. This was a bad decision at best and some shady/dodgy activity at worst.
It kind of reminds me of how PC manufacturers used to put new generation RAM in the system so they could advertise they were using RAM with X speed, but they would pair it with an old motherboard that could only run the RAM at the same speeds as previous generations.
It kind of reminds me of how PC manufacturers used to put new generation RAM in the system so they could advertise they were using RAM with X speed, but they would pair it with an old motherboard that could only run the RAM at the same speeds as previous generations.
If you are poor, then buying a brand new laptop shouldn't be a priority. Lower priced products perform less than higher priced products from same company. Nothings changed in hundreds of years, so no it's not getting screwed.
Don’t buy a transparent case then. And just wipe the case.
I’m not defending Apple, it’s just for light general computing purposes this is a non issue. I have no hesitation recommending this laptop to my mom or my niece. It’s going to be wonderful for them. I might get one for travel through my work.
Some tasks will take longer, but nobody should be buying this for heavyweight computing like is shown in the benchmar tasks by headline seeking YouTubers.
it’s still a great computer for many people. Geeks like us might want more, and we can buy more.
Can’t you upgrade them to 8gb and put in an SSD? These are crappy HP’a you’re taking about, SSD upgrade alone with cloned HDD onto it is a fantastic upgrade for older PCs and notebooks
Different architecture and implementation. Plus it is not significantly faster looking at real benchmarks, plus the high failure rate. There's a reason all ssd manufacturers higher storage tiers run faster than their lower ones. Unified memory architecture can't just use off the shelf modules from an m.2 ssd.
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Everything I mentioned, except the RAM limit being higher, applies to the base model as well.
That's the thing, how much does it affect system responsiveness when using the base model Air like a base model Air, as opposed to using it like a 14" MBP.
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Stuff like this only hurts your fellow customers. Us. You do realize that companies pass cost onto us, yes? And they change generous return policies because of abuse, yes?
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Since I’m not one of those expert YouTube ‘Loopers’ publishing videos of how fast new machines can render videos of them reviewing other machines that they use to see how fast they can render videos of their tech reviews(!), I do believe my 1700€ 2011 13” Air (i7 4/256) is still good enough for my translation workflow — even using Parallels!
Slow SSD on the base M2? 1500MB/s? Maybe, yeah. All I know for sure is that I don’t mind sometimes waiting a few seco—minutes on my 200MB/s system.
Okay, maybe it’s time to replace it, since three keys no longer work — but that’s what bluetooth keyboards are for, isn’t that right Mr. 2010 i3 iMac, old friend?
Slow SSD on the base M2? 1500MB/s? Maybe, yeah. All I know for sure is that I don’t mind sometimes waiting a few seco—minutes on my 200MB/s system.
Okay, maybe it’s time to replace it, since three keys no longer work — but that’s what bluetooth keyboards are for, isn’t that right Mr. 2010 i3 iMac, old friend?
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Now I am confused. SLC>MLC>TLC>QLC is the rank of writing endurance for flash technology. and 256GB or so size would be expensive for MLC, let alone SLC. I'd guess Apple uses TLC either for 128GB or for 256GB.
My 2010 8GB Mac Pro is still running very strong. And I have just SATA SSDs in them. And it’s limited to SATA 2 speeds.
If you are concerned about swap and SSD speeds due to it, that is evidence enough you need more than 8GB of RAM.
If you are concerned about swap and SSD speeds due to it, that is evidence enough you need more than 8GB of RAM.
Well, yes, judging from their thickness I think they are user upgradable, but I won't do it for free in my own free time (because that's what they expect), it's not like they're friends or family.
Given that The ssd in the base m1 is faster than the ssd in the base m2, when both base systems need to use swap memory, the base m1 will perform better from a responsiveness standpoint.
My expectation would be for m2 to be no worse than the base m1. But if there’s a performance regression due to Apple’s choice of a slower ssd, that’s a problem.
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I agree its an issue, but how much the user will notice it depends on what they are doing on a base computer.