![]() ![]() None of these machines are cheap, except for the Mac mini. On the subject of cost, I think apple could possibly eat it. The first is that it’s simply cheaper for Apple, while the second is that there was a shortage of 128GB chips, so it went with a 256GB one instead. Why Did Apple make changes anyway? There are some theories. No one would run Blackmagic on their Mac to make sure their SSD wasn’t powered off. If Apple had stuck to its manufacturing methods from the M1 Macs and doubled down on the NAND chips, none of this would have happened. Having said all that, and still being fairly convinced that none of this is the case, I still find myself a little irritated by the whole thing. Seriously, are we going to do this again? an avoidable issue And again, people are complaining that it’s slower than it should be. It has a bigger display, a faster M2 chip, and other great features.īut it’s also, in the 256GB configuration, only a single NAND chip. ![]() Apple announced the 15-inch MacBook Air on June 5 during WWDC, and it’s undoubtedly the best Mac around for most people. But fast forward a year and here we are again. history repeats itselfĪll this was in the middle of 2022. People actively tried to slow their M2 Macs down to a crawl and couldn’t do it. But as people soon found out, this was not the case at all. Some argued that with only 8GB of RAM, afflicted Macs would be bogged down because they would have to swap out their SSDs a ton, slowing down the system. The only people who noticed that the SSDs were slower in non-Pro Macs (again, only in the base configuration) were the people who were running the benchmarks. Probably because Apple knows those Macs need all the performance they can get. And none of these Macs seem to suffer from this “problem”. Creatives, people who regularly move multi-gigabyte files around, do it on a 14 or 16-inch MacBook Pro. The people who were most likely to see a problem with data transfer speeds were buying different Macs. Neither of those were pro-level machines - and I’d argue that the 13-inch MacBook Pro isn’t really a MacBook Pro until the cows come home. Remember, the machines affected were the 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini. And the people who were targeted? They weren’t moving the data around at a fast enough clip to notice. As the people who actually bought the machines will attest, none of this really mattered because these M2 machines were still insanely fast. Is it really a problem though?Įxcept, it shouldn’t be. Tests run by Max Tech suggested that M2 Macs were about 50% slower reading and about 30% slower when writing data than their M1 counterparts.Īnd that’s when the Internet lost its mind. So how slow were the new Macs with their single NAND chip? OK, a little too much. But those are outside the scope of this rant, so we’ll move on. It’s a bit more complicated than that, and the internet is your friend if you want all the nitty-gritty details. Having more storage chips allows macOS to read and write faster because it is not constrained by how fast a single chip can process that data. The M1 Macs, for completeness’ sake, were using two 128GB chips to achieve their total of 256GB of storage. Upgrade the storage to 512GB or more, and Apple used 2 x 256GB NAND chips (or larger) to get the job done, and boom – things are speedy again. And that’s when we learned that Apple was using a single NAND chip for storage on the 256GB versions of its new M2 Macs. YouTuber Max Tech set out to take apart his 13-inch MacBook Pro to get to the bottom of things. Reviewers found that those who were sent the base model of their respective Macs were seeing slower transfer speeds than those whose Macs had upgraded storage. This tool is designed to see how quickly a Mac can read and write data to its storage. They weren’t that fast when put through their paces using a tool like the Blackmagic Speed Test Tool. Macs had great displays, and their batteries could last for actual days, not hours, depending on usage. ![]() When they did, everyone was amazed at how fast those M2 chips were. But that was pre-M2, and before the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air launched. There was a time when nobody cared what storage configuration Macs had as long as they had enough of it. ![]()
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