Apple put some interesting stuff in its new 15-inch MacBook Air notebook. According to the cool cats at iFixit, who completed their usual reardown of the new hardware and posted video of the process, the 15-inch MacBook Air has a similar internal design as the 13-inch model, with the only notable difference being two extra […]
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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 […]
As nifty as the 2023 MacBook Pro might be, its SSD speeds may be lacking. A quick set of benchmark tests has shown that the SSD speeds on the 2023 14-inch MacBook Pro yields slower read and write speeds than the M2-based MacBook Air. The reason for this comes as Apple trades off using fewer […]
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 […]
The first reviews of Apple’s M2 MacBook Air have surfaced, and while the reviews are generally glowing, a number of them cited that the $1,199 base model equipped with 256GB of storage has a single NAND chip, has demonstrated slower SSD speeds in benchmark testing, but real-world performance may vary. Last month, it was discovered […]