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New 256GB Mac Mini and 512GB MacBook Pro Have Slower SSD Speeds Than Previous Models
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But in real world usage, it won't make too much difference.. especially for people who are in market for low end desktop. I wouldn't mind paying $100 less as a trade off. That said, I'm excited to get my mini pro today. 
While I agree with you, do other aspects of the new machine's architecture make up for that? Disk read/write speed is just one factor, not the end-all-be-all.
I'm not defending Apple except to say that people need to keep perspective. If the M1's never had the faster speeds, this would be a non-issue today. Apple _did_ lower the price of the M2 mini, so that matters, too. It's not like they are doing shrinkflation with it. It still outperforms the M1 mini in every other aspect.
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I guess the goal is to be cutting costs thus profit remains all time high.
And they charge 200 USD for additional 256 GB. Greed.
Sigh...again?
Apple seriously? You gotta cheap out with M2 AGAIN?!
You better start displaying the SSD read/write speeds in the tech specs if you're gonna keep this up.
Apple seriously? You gotta cheap out with M2 AGAIN?!
You better start displaying the SSD read/write speeds in the tech specs if you're gonna keep this up.
That sucks! The new single nand ssds have a similar random read speed to the old two nands. This means that in day-to day usage (excluding swap memory) they perform almost identical. I don`t understand why they are going backwards with this, kinda hope that in the future we will see faster ssds!
Although this time Apple did lower the price of the M2 mini outside of the US(atleast in my country), but the new MBP are more expensive.
Although this time Apple did lower the price of the M2 mini outside of the US(atleast in my country), but the new MBP are more expensive.
Good news for shareholders, Apple won another 20 cents per Mac Mini sold.
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This is almost as outrageous than the changes made to the M&Ms ad characters.
Ok so not too surprising tbh. With precedent happening on m2 air it’s only a matter of time for such practice to creep in other products.
Theres gonna be dozens of people at the very least jumping in arguing “it doesn’t matter” when swap speed directly impacts the performance and experience.
We will see.
Theres gonna be dozens of people at the very least jumping in arguing “it doesn’t matter” when swap speed directly impacts the performance and experience.
We will see.
Surprise!
Crooks like everyone else
Next......
Crooks like everyone else
Next......
It probably saved Tim ten cents per unit.
Good news, Now the 512Gb is a single nand too, that`s amazing!!
Next time put a 5400rpm HDD on the base M3 for good measure.
Next time put a 5400rpm HDD on the base M3 for good measure.
I hate that click bait and stupid crap like this gets more attention than actual usage. Sure this is not good if you’re editing 4K movies and I swear everyone here that wants to buy a Mac does that for a living 😂
I don’t edit 4K videos, so I will likely be buying the base M2 mini.
I don’t edit 4K videos, so I will likely be buying the base M2 mini.
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Now THAT would be brutal. We already know they skimped on the M2 Air/MBP 13 with the 256gig base spec, so no surprise that they would do the same with the M2 mini. But on the 512? I would love to see confirmation.
Classic Tim Apple move. The wonders never cease!! 🤣
When are we moving to 512gb for base models? That should be the ethical thing to do, even if the Mini price had stayed the same as M1.
I would have bought a base M2 Air if it wasn't by the slow SSD. And all those saying this doesn't affect "real world performance" watch this video:
Plenty of use cases that match mine where this SSD issue will show up it's uggly head!
Plenty of use cases that match mine where this SSD issue will show up it's uggly head!
That's like the biggest slap in the face, since it's not even an entire SSD they change, its just an extra chip.
For reference sake, you can get a full nvme Samsung 2TB gen4 ssd for $179 USD.
It's price gouging, nothing more.
If you read the article and see the pictures of the m2 pro MM tear down. It clearly shows 2 NAND chips. One on each side of the motherboard.
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OK get ready for the YouTuber splash screen displaying the typical Apple face palm moment! Priceless!
That’s crazy. Makes me appreciate my M1 Mac mini all the more!
As far as I know the M2 Pro uses 4 NAND chips. So in this case the 512 GB M2 Pro Mac mini is using 2 256 GB NAND chips while the 1 TB version is using 4.
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