It does when Apple promise us better specs and deliver worse ones and reuse old boxes just to squeeze us for as much as Tim's greedy grub mitts can get hold of!
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First Benchmark Result Surfaces for MacBook Air With M2 Chip
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Point is Apple are selling us performance but delivering awful specs and making as much out of us as Tim can get his dirty grubby hands on!
It would be like Rolls Royce charging $500,000 for premium luxury car but giving you a Ford Focus instead whilst telling you how luxury and better it is!
Apple doesn't state the tech specs of the SSD drives etc. ahead of time. Apple states the size of the drive and that is all. If a potential customer wants to know the speed of the SSD etc. he or she will have to wait until tear downs are done and speed confirmed by multiple testing.
If Apple had stated the speed of all the drives on their website ahead of time and delivered less than that after the fact to the customer, your post would have some merit.
Jumping to conclusions about a drive none of us know the speed of and then making false allegations against Apple isn't right.
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Yes but I don't need to! Google is your friend though why not look at Max Tech channel on YT for a start and their many in depth tests and proof!
It may be too hard for all the blind Apple apologists to accept but when Apple start reusing M1 MacBook Pro boxes and sticking M2 labels on then that is nothing to do with supply issues!
That is just being cheap and miserly.
see my other posts as my situation was worse than you by a merry mile and took less than 2hours, you are either:
Lying
Have a defective machine
Doing something wrong.
Sorry but these are the only options and you need to stop flogging a dead horse.
I asked for proof regarding supply chain availability of storage modules. Show your work. There is nothing to be gained from MaxTube regarding supply chain analysis, back up your claim that this notion has been debunked.
Yes but I don't need to! Google is your friend though why not look at Max Tech channel on YT for a start and their many in depth tests and proof!
It may be too hard for all the blind Apple apologists to accept but when Apple start reusing M1 MacBook Pro boxes and sticking M2 labels on then that is nothing to do with supply issues!
That is just being cheap and miserly.
I disagree. 128gb chips are still available and Apple are reusing M1 boxes but sticking labels on top so that is not to do with supply issues. There's not shortage or supply issue with boxes. That smacks of being cheap.
I appreciate that Apple under Jobs is different to Apple today but that does not excuse Apple for this nor can you give Apple a get out of jail card for whatever wrong doing they do, or do you think they can do no wrong?
I am an Apple fan but I refuse to give them a free pass here and refuse to see Tim Cook as a saint!
Specs do play a part in a great user experience as otherwise Apple might as well give us nothing in your view and still charge fortune?
You can not blindly say that Apple being where they are means they can do what they like as that is the same logic that allows wrong doing to occur with zero accountability.
If you can not accept that then you need to leave this website and stop defending Apple!
Will you be voting with your wallet on your next computer/phone/tablet purchase, going with a different company, to send Apple a strong message you will not submit to being screwed anymore?
Found your BS. M1 doesn't run Mavericks so irrelevant to the discussion. Plus, Mavericks is much smaller at like 5GB install vs 12.4GB with Big Sur.
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I will be actually, I was pretty interested in the M2 Pro, I am currently very satisfied with my M1/8/512 Air. While I am not the target market for a base model and would go for at least a 512, the 512 speeds posted from an M2 are still not as fast as my M1. I do move a lot of files around in my hobbyist journeys and SSD speed is important to me, also I hold Macs a long time and since they can't be upgraded its forever. While the SSD may not be that huge a difference today in 5+ years 1200-2000 R/Ws is going look like USB 2 does in 2022. The XPS plus is reported to reach 5000+ by comparison. In the age of PCIe 4.0, it's an arbitrary hinderance to an otherwise very attractive machine that is a deal breaker for me. Maybe its supply chain, maybe is Scrooge McCook or maybe its a design choice, no one except Apple can 100% say why, but it does matter.
I won't be leaving the Apple ecosystem I own 18 Macs, several iPads and iPhones, HomePods, Watches, AirPods... I have all the Apple things...and love each and every one of them, but I don't like this SSD situation and will pass on any future Mac that is ill equipped for 2022.
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"...but I don't like this SSD situation and will pass on any future Mac that is ill equipped for 2022."
It sounds like for your computer needs base models with minimal SSD (where at the moment Apple SSDs take a hit on speed) work for you.
And 1TB and greater storage would be a waste of storage and money. Correct?
Base cpu and ram yes. Storage no. I can make 512 work but I would prefer 1 or 2 TB. My 2015 13” has a 2 TB and about 500-600 GB free. It gets around 1300 R/W. It’s fine, but the 3000+ my M1 gets is wonderful.
I’m doing the same thing. Moving from a 2012 MacBook Air. Starting to get a little slow and outdated ( has been for awhile) but great machine nonetheless.
I did look at the M1 MacBook Pro 14 inch really carefully and strongly considered it. However, by going with the M2 rather a M1 variant, I figure it would give me one extra year of MacOS support and would delay the dreaded "vintage" designation by Apple and end of support at the Apple Store.
Linus Tech Tips did a test a few years ago using all the techies in the office to see if they could guess high speed NVME vs SSD versus HDD or something. It was mind blowing as they couldn’t in real world usage of the computer. It would take actually sustained transfer of lots of data somehow to notice. It’s just not that big of deal. Of course MaxTech on YouTube would make you think it’s a reason not to buy an M2 MacBook Pro or any other Mac with 256GB that only uses one chip. But in the real world nobody is going to know without a benchmark.
Technically yes, but the Mini LED display is in a class all it's own. It's second to OLED.
Allegedly, the 128 GB NAND chip that Apple uses in parallel is being phased out—less manufacturers are buying 128 GB NAND chips, so it no longer has economies of scale behind it, and the supplier can't produce numbers like they did two years ago for that chip size at the same price—thus would cost the supplier more to ramp production back up for the M2 Air (which is going to sell WAY more than an M1 Air that's at the long end of the tail—and to keep costs down (It's already $200 more than expected!), so Apple decided against it. Big woop. 99.999% of users wouldn't know if you didn't tell them, because it's just the base model, and it's still super fast for 99% of tasks. It's a dumb hill to die. Let me put it into perspective:
The 2022 M2 MacBook Air...AIR!... is faster in CPU and GPU than a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro that started at $2,399.
In other words: you're getting that same 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro but at 1/2 the weight, 1/2 the cost, and 50%+ battery life.
These are golden years for Apple customers. Our money is getting us twice the performance than just a few years ago, and no fans, no heat, and all day battery life. Apple isn't robbing us. And these computers will last a decade.
No, Apple should be criticized for making 256 GB the base model—that's the true crime here!
I like MaxTech, or did, but they are dropping the ball. Supposedly, they used the wrong benchmark version (Rosetta or something) and so nobody could reproduce the issue they created.
Even then, their test was meant to saturate ALL cpu and gpu cores at the same time, something that is very hard to do and most people won't ever do on an entry-level laptop.
A few years ago, these MacBook Airs and entry level 13-inch Pro had two cores, got super hot, and throttled just doing basic tasks. Now the Air is better than a 2019 16-inch Pro. I mean, the Air was meant for web browsing and word processing, mostly. But just a few years later and it's practically a super computer at this point in relation to people's everyday needs. We're really at the nitpicking stage of computing. "Oh no, the SSD is only super fast and not super-duper fast!"
A 2019 MBP is still a pretty new machine (as long as you take care of it). You just need to make sure you prop the back up so air can run underneath the machine and it is running on a hard surface (like a desk). My daughter is a recent CS grad from Cornell, and she made it through carrying two laptops. A 2010 MacBook with 16 GB RAM and 2 TB Samsung SSD was used for all her coding classes. Her 2015 maxed out MBA was used to write papers and other school task. The CS TAs made fun of the 2010 MacBook, but I told her, "You ask those TA if their machines have 2 TB SSD for storage or 16 GB of RAM?" She graduated a semester early (Dean's List every semester), and is now a software product manager for a FinTech company. So, don't be too quick to get a new machine. You are student and you can't always have the latest and great things. Wait later in life when you have a good paying job to buy a new Mac. I wish you luck with your studies.
Business: Dentist
Software: Using a Scansnap Scanner to scan all my paperwork. I use FineReader to ORC the scans. Finally, I store the scans by years, and folders for each category. Reason: I didn't want to have thousands of PDF in some kind of database that could get corrupt. Also, since the PDF are stored in folders, it is easy to backup in TimeMachine and easy to retrieve PDFs if needed. I use Alfred and Spotlight to do my searches. With this method, I can go to my CPA, and if he ask me for any receipt, I can easily search and pull up the receipt right in front of him on my laptop. Yes...I am very organized and it does take discipline.
To future proof the machine since I will be in this machine for the next 10 years, and I can't upgrade RAM and SSD like previous Macs.
I don’t think “reusing“ means what you think it means. Just because they put a sticker on the box doesn’t make it reused. It has only been used once. Also, it doesn’t mean they are cheap. How about environmentally responsible by not simply throwing out perfectly good, already manufactured boxes?