I'm considering getting the base model M2 air, however, I've never tried the slower gimped hard drive that apparently performs much slower than the M1 or M3 air. Can anybody comment if the OS feels slower for day-to-day use on the base M2 air?
Like many other things, the big problems which are often discussed here by the glittering technorati of macrumors experts, this is a bit of a damp squib as an issue for actual use.
As
@snipr125 and
@page3 have said, the practical issues with the M2 256Gb SSD is that since it is slower, it will result in slower data save/retrieval times, which I didn't notice at all really when comparing my M1 to an M2. It's barely noticeable on typical file activity, and only of any import if you're moving multi-Gb files around.
Overall system performance is impacted
a bit when putting the system under heavy use with intensive work, but even then it's not something you'd really notice all that much, and a base model might not be the right choice if that's what it is intended for anyway.
Benchmarks have been with us since the very early days, but they are not as helpful as a guide to performance as some tend to think.
