That the Cupertino company is used to launching “identical” products on the outside, and radically different on the inside, is something that doesn’t really surprise us either. There is a long list of Apple products that may look similar, but have a price difference that makes us suspicious.
Again, Apple isn’t telling you the secrets of the huge price jump that exists between Macs with different storages, and we’re not just talking about capacity. Thus, the mere fact of opting for a 256GB or 512GB version can also make a big difference in performance.
This was already happening in 2012 between the 13″ 128GB MacBook Pro and the 512GB MacBook Pro, for some reason no one could figure out, far from what might seem logical, the lower storage option had a lower read and write rate. writing significantly lower than that offered by the 512 GB version.
In this order of things, with the new MacBook Air M2 they quickly realized that this tactic was perpetuated over time, the SSD mounted by the version with less storage had significantly lower performance than previous versions.
The same thing happened with the Mac Mini M2, where thWe found that the 256 GB version has a single chip (instead of two in parallel), and therefore even offers 50% lower performance which versions with higher storage.
This is unbelievable but true, especially since after the CPU and GPU, the hard drive is perhaps the biggest contributor to system performance. It’s like that Apple tarnishes the work of the M2 processor for those who have not decided to pay the additional cost of 230 dollars implicit in the extension of memory to 512 GB, since you not only improve storage, but also performance. Something they don’t tell you when you buy it, in fact Apple barely mentions it anywhere…did you know that?
