MacBook Air 15 inch uses slow 256 GB SSD

The fact that the standard 15-inch MacBook Air uses a 256GB SSD with a single NAND flash storage chip is not surprising to the technology world. Recently, YouTube channel Max Tech announced the above information and confirmed that the 256GB SSD of the newly launched Apple laptop model has a much lower read/write speed than the 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB SSDs using multiple NAND chips.

MacBook Air 15 inch price from 32.9 million VND in Vietnam

Previously, the 13-inch MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the standard 256GB Mac mini models also used similar hard drives, giving benchmark results that were 30% to 50% lower than the previous generation device. The reason is that Apple used to use two 128GB NAND flash chips on Macs with 256GB drives, but in some recently released models, the company replaced them with a single 256GB chip.

Slower SSD speeds can impact certain tasks like transferring files to an external hard drive or overall system performance, especially when performing heavy tasks due to the mechanism of using an empty SSD as virtual memory when the RAM on your Mac is used up.

However, the average user will hardly notice the above mentioned slowdown. Those who need high-speed processing are recommended to choose a model with at least 512 GB of SSD storage, which is currently $200 more than the standard version.

The 15-inch MacBook Air, which began shipping this week in the US, uses the same M2 chip as its 13-inch predecessor. The product is listed as "Unavailable" for delivery on the Apple Store Vietnam online store.

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