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MacBook Air Teardown Reveals M2 Chip and Single Storage Chip for 256GB Model
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...unless you only have 8GB RAM and swap starts getting used, in which case the SSD is going to dramatically hammer performance vs the previous generation
This is not even a debate -- that's objectively true
It's not a benchmark thing on a given task, but the real world facts of how these systems work and is actually far more relevant for a typical user than any specific task benchmarks, particularly for folks who tend to buy base models.
i.e. loaded up browser tabs and a couple apps researching wedding reception ideas or doing a school paper...(swap getting used)...why are things slowing to a crawl on my $1200+ new M2 MBA?
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They’ve never had any to begin with. Unlike other kiss-ass bloggers, these guys buy all their units with their own money.
With the price jump on this, they should’ve just went with 512Gb SSD on the base model if they cannot provide two 128Gb SSDs
140W isn’t a PD spec. Neither is the cable. The point is they’re proprietary.
Higher price, slower speed, that’s a bad apple.
For reads. For writes it's 40% slower than this MacBook.
yeah lol i just copy pasted what apple executive said ,was in a macrumors article few days ago ,when he reflected on 12" mba and m2 ssd's
) kinda funny how he dares lie in people faces' like a cobra spitting his venom in your eyes and blinding you ,making you purchase the latest apple product only to realize that you've been sucked out your money ,and since we need money to live ,it basically means that nasty cobra sucked the life outta you ,but i digress have you actually a mba m2 ? is it truly as bad as u wrote ? how many tabs have u ? chrome or safari ? how many programs ? could u show us all your open tabs with mission control ? i can keep a **** load of chrome tabs+many tabs on my mba m1 without problems
Yes! Pretty cool to see a motherboard so well designed fitting in the palm of your hand.
hold,again ,m1 ? m1 is more than amazing for me,and i have 8gb 256
Correct
Problem will be quite a bit worse on an m2 with a halving of SSD speed (base models)..
That will directly impact performance when using swap
If you know them more than just this video, they catalyze Apple's marketing much more than they kill it.
I think it's good that someone tells the truth. Apple should either advertise it clearly, or should stop doing this altogether.
Yea have you ever been able to self upgrade Apple without decent skills and tools? Used to be able to just open a panel and upgrade RAM and SSD in PCs, but even they are crap now with having to take the whole bottom off.
Apple really should have made 16gb RAM the default for all M2 machines.
Problems solved re: swap … and way more futureproofed machine
I.e. much much better value and offering for their customers
Problems solved re: swap … and way more futureproofed machine
I.e. much much better value and offering for their customers
Yeah I would be so disappointed that exporting 4K HEVC videos in the background while I surf the web would take a little longer to finish if I bought this.
If only Apple sold other machines designed to do that process quicker for those who need it done faster.
Steve jobs was the first to ‘cheap out’ with components 😂😂 another case of using his name when one doesn’t really know what one is saying.
The shortcut command is also written right next to the command that you click in the menu bar. It’s been the same command for decades. It’s not the same as windows but I hardly think that’s relevant. It’s certainly not complicated. No one I know, non geek or not, is unable to realise either how to, or how to find out how to quit an app on any os. You’re arguing an absolute non issue.
I am so outraged by the SSD situation I had to register specially to say so.
This is a VERY BIG DEAL. You can tell that because I used caps.
I am thinking of returning my Tangerine G3 iMac to Apple in protest.
This is a VERY BIG DEAL. You can tell that because I used caps.
I am thinking of returning my Tangerine G3 iMac to Apple in protest.
I wonder who the first YouTuber will be that solders in a 256GB SSD chip into that empty slot to see if they can get it to recognize the whole 512GB?
There's two kinds of people on these threads. There are people who say what they themselves want, and what they will do. Then there are those people who say what they think everyone else should like and do.
The point is, non-geeks don't quit apps in macOS because it's not intuitive to do so. The fact that you need a shortcut to do that is relevant. As a result, memory usage will be higher for new macOS users, especially those who choose 8/256.
It's relatively easy to force quit apps in iOS as well, but most people don't it because it's not intuitive.
How do know it will be noticed?
macOS will write the swap before its necessary so that when you run low of memory, the memory content has already been written.
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The M2 MacBook Air 256GB SSD has a sequential write speed of 2260 MB/s when writing 1GB blocks (The Verge)
The M2 MacBook Air 512GB SSD has a sequential write speed of 2760 MB/s when writing 1GB blocks (The Verge)
So writing 1GB of swap till take 0.44 seconds vs 0.36 seconds.
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