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M-2 MacBook Air- What Do You All Think Of It?
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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1938656" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>I don't think that it is. Apple could have put an SSD in it's entry level models that is as fast as one would expect even a cheap SSD to be. Instead they went the cheapest route, and only offer a single chip SSD that is disappointingly slow. Read the articles that I cited. These 256GB SSD's are as much as HALF the speed of the previous M1 low-end SSD's. Not an impressive showing by Apple, a company that one usually associates with only high-end computers. </p><p></p><p>On the other hand, at this point, a 256GB internal drive is unusually small. Even if Apple had provided a drive of that size with ordinary speed, it likely would slow down very early in it's lifespan as it filled up with VM, temp files, meta data, databases, etc. It's almost as if Apple threw up their hands and decided that folks scrimping on cost so much as to be purchasing such a small drive are second class customers who don't deserve a fast SSD.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1938656, member: 190607"] I don't think that it is. Apple could have put an SSD in it's entry level models that is as fast as one would expect even a cheap SSD to be. Instead they went the cheapest route, and only offer a single chip SSD that is disappointingly slow. Read the articles that I cited. These 256GB SSD's are as much as HALF the speed of the previous M1 low-end SSD's. Not an impressive showing by Apple, a company that one usually associates with only high-end computers. On the other hand, at this point, a 256GB internal drive is unusually small. Even if Apple had provided a drive of that size with ordinary speed, it likely would slow down very early in it's lifespan as it filled up with VM, temp files, meta data, databases, etc. It's almost as if Apple threw up their hands and decided that folks scrimping on cost so much as to be purchasing such a small drive are second class customers who don't deserve a fast SSD. [/QUOTE]
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