No, that argument has been debunked. Apple are just being cheap and screwing us over...end of!
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First Benchmark Result Surfaces for MacBook Air With M2 Chip
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this is an example of the camera+sensor assembly from one of the MacBooks. Not sure which one but it is typical. They are not as small as you imagine.
I just reverted from Monterey back to Big Sur and the whole process from downloading 12.4GB Big Sur, creating the USB install media, erasing storage, installing Big Sur to booting to desktop took several hours and not 35 minutes. Creating Big Sur USB install media alone without counting the time to download took 40 minutes. For comparison, writing a 5GB Windows 10/11 ISO takes 3 minutes plus 7 minutes (just wiped a device to measure time) to install and boot to desktop then several minutes more for updates. Anyhow, the point is M1 256GB is already slow to reimage/boot/launch apps/etc. so Apple needs to make M2 256GB faster and not slower.
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Hold on now, we’ve been over this. When using the Windows Media Creation Tool, how long does it take to download and create the flash drive? At least an hour.
Why in the world did you go out of your way to discuss download and imaging of the macOS drive and just skirt around already having the Windows ISO and clearly using a different utility that the official Microsoft one?
If you want anyone to take you seriously here at least do an actual Apples to Apples comparison.
It’s faster for me at work to fully image up a windows machine than a Mac….but not by more than half an hour or so.
Wrong, it's called cheapening out and screwing over customers which only dumb evil companies do!
Customers pay for the specs and speeds they are told they will get only for Apple to then deliver less.
This basically forces customers to pay more to get a machine with good enough specs and is clearly brazen attempt by Cook to squeeze as much money out of customers as possible with zero justification.
See Max Tech YT vid on the M2 MacBook Pro and the fan is awful as is the machine. It runs dangerously hot and the fan hardly kicks in and when it does it hardly spins up and shows once again how useless Cook is as CEO regarding products.
The point is not if people notice the difference but the fact we should not be charged for performance promised that we do not get and then have to pay even more just to get half decent performance.
There is no justification for this and evidence shows Apple are being cheapskates, they even are reusing old M1 MacBook Pro 13" boxes.
How is that a result of supply issues?
How is that good business ?
That is like a cafe owner reusing a slice of tomato that a previous patron did not eat and calling it great business rather than cheap skating .
This is what the Apple apologists refuse to accept which is that Tim Cook is a money guy and is deeply cheap and miserly.
He does not care for the product like Steve Jobs did!
Steve fired a engineer for not caring about what font should be used on the iTunes store website, Cook only cares how much money he can empty from our pockets.
That's not the point. Point is being shafted whilst told everything is better and faster when it is not.
That was not the point. Point is Tim and Co tell us and you that the M2 machines will be better than the M1 etc and yet we now know that to be false with the 13" Pro at least.
So that blows your defence of them out the water, stop apologising for what is obviously a money grab and despicably so!
Cook is even reusing M1 boxes and putting a label over the M1 print.
How cheap and scummy can he get?
Well I am tech neutral and can tell you you must be doing something wrong as when I reinstall macOS it does not take that long, not even close.
I used that method too and it took a lot less than half a day. Your doing something wrong or your machine is defective, I promise.
I know you won't accept it but it is true.
No offence.
I will say the two are not mutually exclusive.
Apple is still in the business of selling us a great user experience, and managing their supply chain is how Apple is able to crank out said products in sufficient quantities for their customers.
The fact of the matter is that the Apple of today is a very different company compared to the Apple of yesteryear, and running it successfully is going to entail a different skill set and judgement calls to be made.
I accept that the new 256 gb SSD in the MBA is slower. I believe it was done to cope with the supply chain crunch, and I don’t think it will have any noticeable impact on the overall performance of the device. That’s how Apple has always rolled - specs aren’t as important as the experience they enable. And the 256 gb SSD will still be plenty fast for the people buying the entry level model and what they likely intend to use them for.
If you can’t accept this, and if you can’t accept that its decisions like this that have helped keep Apple at the top and made them as successful as they are today, then I can only say that you don’t understand business in general, and you don’t understand Apple.
I have and it does not take that long, sorry but stop being so proud, you are wrong.
Yes they are still manufactured, I just found the wholesale price and it is just over $2!
So please stop apologising for behaviour from Apple that should not be defended.
I restored mine back to Mavericks and it took a lot less than 4 hours and my Mac is over 6 years old!
My 6+ year old Mac took a lot less than 4 hours and that went back to Mavericks so you are doing something wrong, sorry but you are!
I just deployed my Mavericks image to my 2011 Air this afternoon because I was bored and it took about 7 min.
Why don't you prove it to us since you are claiming it takes so long despite me telling you my situation was worse than yours and it took me less than 1.5 hours total and that included going back to Mavericks and then upgrading back to Big Sur!
No offence but it is you who needs to learn as I told you before and I will keep telling you!
My situation was worse than yours any day of the week and yet I took less than 2 hours and yes that was from USB!
Please stop trolling!
Actually they would know as it is their job to know such things.
I worked for BT Repair as a CSA yet I knew a lot of technical details that you would think the engineers would only know.
The reason is that it helped me to deal with customer's problems better and no I do not need to show proof, that is on yourself to do so seeing you are the one defending Apple here.