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M3 MacBook Air teardown posted, Apple resolves controversial SSD issue from M2 model

“They’ll fix it in the next version” may be a cliche, but it seems to have applied to the SSD issue found in the M2 MacBook Air. On Wednesday, repair outfit iFixit posted a video teardown of the base model of Apple’s newly-released 13-inch MacBook Air with the M3 chip and 256GB of storage. The […]

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Apple repeats NAND SSD slowdown issue with 256GB drive aboard the $1,299 15-inch MacBook Air

Apple may have made the same snafu with its base model SSD with its new 15-inch MacBook Air that it made with the 13-inch version of the notebook. The SSD, which features a single 256GB NAND chip, offers slower SSD read and write speeds when compared to the other models with more storage available. The […]

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iFixit teardown notes smaller heatsink in new M2-based MacBook Pro notebooks

A recent teardown has shown that Apple’s new M2 Pro and M2 Max-based MacBook Pro note feature a considerably smaller heatsink due to supply chain issues. According to recent reports by iFixit and MaxTech, the new MacBook Pro’s revised thermal architecture appears to be caused by the reduced overall footprint of the ‌M2‌ Pro and […]

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Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman states Apple scrapped an M1-based Mac Pro that was ready for release for an M2 Extreme-based unit

With an Apple Silicon Mac Pro having yet to be released, and even alluded to in this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shed some light on the situation. In an interview with Max Tech, Gurman revealed that Apple has an M1 Mac Pro ready to ship months ago, but scrapped it to […]

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First teardown of M2 MacBook Air published, single storage chip for 256GB model confirmed

The first M2 MacBook Airs have begun to arrive and the cool cats at the Max Tech YouTube channel recently posted a video teardown of the redesigned lightweight notebook. Overall, the internal design of the new MacBook Air looks similar to the previous model, but the flatter shell allowed for Apple to fit larger battery […]