“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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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 […]
This probably wasn’t what you were expecting with a new M2-based 13-inch MacBook Pro. The $1,299 base model of the 13-inch MacBook Pro featuring 256GB of storage has significantly slower SSD read/write speeds compared to an equivalent previous-generation model. According to YouTube channels Max Tech and Created Tech, which ran tests on the new units […]
As much as you may love your old Apple Time Capsule, it may be time to back up its data and move on to a different drive. Per German data recovery company Datenrettung Berlin, Apple’s Time Capsule, which was discontinued in 2018, could pose a risk to users, as a flaw in the Seagate drive inside […]
This might not be the best news if you just snagged a 2019 model MacBook Air. Per the mighty Consomac, the 2019 MacBook Air released last week features a slower SSD than its 2018 counterpart. After running the trusty Blackmagic Disk Speed test, it turns out that the read speeds of the 2019 MacBook Air’s […]