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New MacBook Air M2 slower than my old MacBook Air 2010, 2015 and my Dell XPS 17???
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HEY! CAN YOU POLITELY TO ME PLEASE!
I AN NEWBIE, BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ACCOUNT BEFORE AND I HATE TO CREATE APPLE ID BECAUSE I'M TOO LAZY! AND MY NEW M2 IS VERY SLOW!
You see I keep telling people this and they don't believe me, The 2019 Macbook Pro intel line up is the one of the worst products Apple has released. I had one and was so embarrassed to have such a dud of a machine.
My 2010 Air is faster than New M2 about 10 seconds boot time.
My records (from boot to desktop)
- 2010 Air - 23 seconds
- 2015 Air - 16 seconds
- XPS 17 - 6 seconds
- M2 Air - 1.06 mins
Yeah base storage model is bad. Sorry, I make mistake because I bought wrong model.
You have a faulty model. Replace it for the same M2 MacBook Air (even base) and it will be significantly faster than any of your other machines, even the base model will be.
Not that I think this is a genuine post, nobody can be this ignorant.
Not that I think this is a genuine post, nobody can be this ignorant.
Base storage has slower SSD due to only 1 chip, but surprisingly it is still faster than a Dell. LOL
Dont listen to everyone else here Ben Men, personally i would go with a 2018 retina Macbook Air,
Its gonna be familiar to you, have a better screen than what you have and itll be super fast!!
Clearly the M2 MBA is not faulty but just super slow!!
The SSD on the M2 MBA will always be slow as ****, even if you replace the base model over 9000 times.
The only fix is upgrading to 512 GB SSD.
Seriously, I mean who can work on such a slow and terrible machine?
Forget that the M2 Chip is "supposedly" faster than the M1 in almost every task thus saving people time....but that SUPER SLOW SSD would take literally seconds longer than the old M1 MacBook air...I don't know what Apple was thinking.
No worries Ben Men, I am happy to help you find a great laptop that wont be so slow!
To say M2 MacBook Air slow is to say 2014 11” MacBook Air capable at running Big Sur at the same speed as M1 MacBook Pro. It’s just a simple no. Take the above advise and move on.
Yes, my M1 MacBook Pro runs slow from time to time, but dragging the same set of software (albeit a bit older macOS) to my old 11” MacBook Air would be unbearable And unusable.
Yes, my M1 MacBook Pro runs slow from time to time, but dragging the same set of software (albeit a bit older macOS) to my old 11” MacBook Air would be unbearable And unusable.
How is his machine faulty when every base M2 MBA has a slow ass SSD?
You guys telling him his machine is faulty is total utter non-sense. Only Apple can fix it if they release a revision with 2 NAND modules.
I mean you're right, its not a faulty machine. 1 minute boot times are expected for that kinda junky laptop. I seriously dont know how anyone can work with the super slow SSD in the base model.
The base i7 16” model seems fine. The i9s were a bit crankier.
Glad to see the newbie has a ‘friend’ to complain with.
Yeah, I can’t see the ssd hindering everyday tasks. If you’re banging on it hard, big renders and file transfers, maybe. Maybe it’s old versions of software so everything is in Rosetta?
Over a minute to boot up?
Wow that is something.
Maybe this is more your speed. It has the super slim bezels like the M1 air. It has an ssd too.
These people and their M2 MBA thinking 6 seconds is normal boot up speed......Oh that it right, the chart is probably just out of order, replace Dell XPS 17 with M2 MBA and you got it
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Are you saying he will get a base M2 MBA that has a fast SSD if he exhanges it?
MacRumors always makes me laugh. The facts are clear, it has been clearly documented by benchmarks how slow the SSD is on the base M2 MBA. The numbers don’t lie.
He simply needs to upgrade to the 512GB SSD. That will fix his slow SSD speed.
And what I am saying is supported by facts.
Yes the facts are clear. It has a SSD which is still fast. Fast enough that people who buy the base model will never know there is any difference between the base and a larger capacity ssd.
Do you really think it takes over a minute to boot up the base Model M2 Air? Come on, that is just laughable on it's face and if you believe it or say that the base Model M2 MBA takes anywhere near that time then I know you are as real as this thread.
To put things into proper perspective the SSD on the base model is still faster than the ssd in the 2019 MBP.
It is super slow. Even my 2018 MBP has a SSD that is twice as fast than the base M2 MBA.
He just needs to upgrade to the 512 GB SSD. And problem is solved.
Exchanging it for a new M2 base model like others in this thread suggested won’t do anything.