Apple doesn't generally use higher quality RAM or storage chips than Windows OEM's.
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First Benchmark Result Surfaces for MacBook Air With M2 Chip
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How on earth would it take at least an hour? That's ridiculous.
Even when I use a slow USB 2.0 drive it doesn't take more than 8 minutes to write a Windows image with Media Creation Tool.
The download portion takes a bit, then the writing with the stick generic tool takes 30-40 minutes.
I could take shortcuts, but I’m giving a direct comparison to what that facetious poster was doing for the Mac re-image.
Yes I could just burn the ISO to a flash drive in way less time, but that poster was talking about how it takes “half a day” to download the MacOS installer, write it to a drive, then image a Mac.
I gave him the equivalent process with downloading the Windows Media Creation tool, and using it to download and set up the flash drive. I do it several times a month (because I lose drives or reformat them constantly). It’s quicker than the equivalent on the Mac, but not by hours like that poster stated.
Hopefully that clarifies what I was describing?
Shplock... You have been beating a dead horse for no reason.... How about you move on and buy a windows machine. The toxic environment of Apple is ripping us all off and bs found in so many posts is really getting old on a site for Apple fans.
Looks like someone forgot about size, weight, portability, battery life, and color options.
A lot of people on the forum are saying get the 14" over the M2 Air but, there are a lot of people who don't need all the ports and other features of the 14". Why pay for features one isn't going to use just to say you got more bang for the tech buck? That argument doesn't make sense.
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Exactly! First off, I want something portable for travel. Second, I use a monitor, mouse & keyboard, and dock at my desk at home. Because of that, the built in ports, screen, and speakers are all but useless to me. The only real advantage for my work flow would be the ssd speeds and fans, but I’m no power user so there is 0 point of me shelling out the extra money for a brick with better features, simply because people deem it “better value”.
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Fastest EVER Geekbench single core numbers from a Mac, and folks are like "Nothing to see here really. This is what we've been expecting." Those folks don't understand processor development, thermals, or how to manage expectations.
Insanity. Absolutely nuts. For single core operations, my fully loaded 16-inch MacBooks Pro hits a single core score of 1794.
MacBook Air - no fan, limited thermal envelope, and this is the fastest ever.
Sure, synthetic benchmarks have limited usefulness and don't accurately model everyone's workflow, but I think folks have become incredibly jaded. Apple Silicon is absolutely amazing. The MacBook Air M2 is poised to be the killer Mac. Small, lightweight, long battery life, silent, and more than enough computing power for the majority of users.
