Is This the Real Problem With Apple’s M2 Chip?
I spoke to Max Tech to find out!
Well, that escalated quickly, didn’t it?
A bunch of tests carried out by benchmarking experts, Max Tech, has revealed that the latest piece of Apple silicon is slower than its predecessor.
This is one-hundred per cent the case. If you’ll allow me to get unusually nerdy about this for a brief second, the issue relates to the use of a single NAND storage chip in the 256GB base model of the M2 MacBook Pro. The previous generation used two NAND chips, thus splitting that storage equally between both — a technique which delivers faster SSD speeds.
Max Tech’s tests confirmed this. Yet, I still made a follow-up video in which I suggested that ‘normal’ users simply aren’t going to notice the reduction in SSD speed. This, as you can imagine, drew a sea container load of attention to my channel — both good and bad.
I even bickered a bit with Max Tech’s Vadim Yuryev on Twitter.
