If you press "reply" button on a post you actually can have the quoted material embedded in your post. In this way, a notice is sent to the person you are quoting so they know you are responding. As to the substance of your post, I already rebutted it in this thread -- so it's clearly not a dodge.
The target audience I presume is people who want the lightest laptop. Alternatively, it is for people who want the least expensive. Neither of these groups, ipso facto, want an SSD less capable than the prior device it replaces.
but... how many people are moving to the M2 air from an M1 air??
This very valid point seems to fall on a lot of deaf ears as they are too busy running benchmarks all day long lol
When working with big files such as video editing, some CAD, or software testing, the system requires more Ram. When there is not enough Ram, the system uses swap, the 256Gb Air will be slower when using swap.
Truth. The whole point is that you, me, and people like us would know, and we would run those benchmarks, and we would talk about those benchmarks. But none of that is true for the segment of users buying the entry level MBA.
i have an imac for the 'heavy lifting' (final cut, logic). i use the air for everything else... nothing complicated. if you buy an air (even the base level model), and do video, audio work, etc... there will be an impact. and even then... the sky won't fall.
A point many of us have tried to make lol. “But this YouTuber did this export and it was way slower!”
You posted 12 times in this forum thread and 6 of those 12 were on the first page. I'm not saying that I haven't littered a MacRumors forum thread to a similar degree and in similar fashion repeating the same point over and over again (most certainly, I have). But, you're calling it a ridiculous thread, and yet chiming in so fervently to defend a computer you purchased like people were insulting your religion for even thinking that the base model with an obviously inferior SSD is problematic. Stop and consider that for two seconds.
I dont buy my computers based on how well they perform in synthetic benchmarks. I buy them for how they perform for my needs, like most of the world does. Like I said before, who buys a computer with 256gb of storage to transfer large files as their daily use? Anyone with a brain wouldn't, thus taking the base storage out of the picture. You buy the right tool for the job, feel free to show realistic examples as to how the base storage harms the everyday user that buys the base model?
I would say that Apple deserves critique for not clearly stating this. They left it to YouTubers to find this out and for them to tell the public. Otherwise, it's for the buyer to decide. Personally, I don't like Apple to constantly cut corners for what everyone believes are premium products. But this case isn't as bad as when Apple until a few years back in time sold iMacs with slow 5400 RPM HDD's.
That's the issue, if coming from a base M1, will be a downgrade. If coming from an Intel Mac a significant upgrade. Apple should have bit the bullet and gone with duel 256 nand chips for the base model. As for me, I don't need or want large internal storage as I live between macOS & Windows so all data is on external drives.
Agreed, however if coming from a base M1 that's working hard your likely to see a difference. Apple no doubt is stuck with what makes commercial sense, hence the single 256 nand chip.
I agree and disagree. I think Apple did this as a cost saving measure and think it's not great. Will it affect everybody? No. It probably won't affect most. But buyer beware. You should know your use case and what you need.
That's it, some outliers will see the differnce. Irrespective the MBA remains to be a very potent notebook and then some...
