Are the brand-spankin’ new 13” MacBook Pros with M2 chips actually slower than the previous generation?
The last few weeks have seen a bubbling cauldron of reviews and reactions to the new 13” MacBook Pro. Most importantly, the conversation around the internal SSDs in the base model MacBook Pro has really stirred the pot, as it seems that the new base-model machines have slower speeds.
Is the new M2 chip slower than the M1? No, the new chips are on their own much faster and more efficient.
So WTF is going on? Well, your CPU is only a small part of the equation. To really answer this question, we have to get a bit nerdy.
Internal SSD Layout
To get the answers we need, we’ll touch on two YouTube videos—one from Created Tech and the other from MacRumors. But we do have to state that this issue only seems to affect the base-model MacBook Pro with 256GB of storage.
Author: Yaroslav Altunin
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
