Here at MacworldWe tend to advise customers not to buy any entry-level configuration. Mac. It generally doesn’t have enough storage for most people, even people who rely heavily on iCloud or other cloud storage will likely run into space constraints down the line.
But there’s another reason why you might want to avoid the entry-level configurations of Apple’s latest Mac Minis and MacBook ProsThis product went on sale Tuesday. While The new $599 M2 Mac Mini is a very nice computer at a great price, it hides an ugly secret we’ve seen before: a Slower. MacRumors reports benchmarks The machine shows that the 256GB SSD is approximately 50 percent faster than the 256GB SSD. M1 model It is the replacement.
The The same reason is cited for the slowdown as the 256GB SSD. 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro And M2 MacBook Air: Apple The SSD uses one NAND chip, while the M1 uses two. Macs They were replacing two NAND chips. YouTuber Brandon Geekabit This was confirmed Apple In his M2 teardown, he uses one NAND Chip Mac mini.
One chip may be enough Apple’s space-challenged engineers, but when it comes to SSD storage, there’s a general principle that affects performance: an SSD uses multiple channels in parallel to read/write data to an SSD’s NAND chips. The There are more chips available than there are channels. The better the performance, the more channels are available.
Somewhat The new base configurations of this vehicle are quite surprising. MacBook Pro Even though they have a 512GB SSD, they are still affected. 9to5Mac Reports During testing and teardown of the 14 inch, MacBook Pro A 10-core M2 Pro Processor, The SSD is comprised of two 256GB NAND chip, which is half the number found in the M1’s 512GB SSD. Pro model. And Because there are fewer chips, the M2 512GB is smaller. Pro MacBook Pro SSD performance is slower than the predecessor. We Assume the 16-inch entry-level model MacBook ProThe same performance problems are also present in the 512GB SSD.
While We can see why the lower-end uses fewer chips MacsThe new MacBook Pro The ultimate in performance, it starts at $1999 Most Users who purchase one desire the fastest possible speeds for all aspects of their machine. In The higher-end model that we tested had disk speeds comparable to our expectations, with write scores well above the M1 Pro M2 and M3.
After four models, it’s clear that Apple Customers will have to accept the speed sacrifice when choosing the cheapest configuration. Macs. Granted, most users won’t feel the difference in everyday use and will only notice it the slowdown when using software that needs to read files from the SSD frequently–but we recommend getting at least a 1TB SSD anyway so there are enough data channels in use to make the speed difference unnoticeable.
