Apple's Base 13-Inch MacBook Pro With M2 Chip Is 50% Slower Than The M1 Variants

Apple not very long ago unveiled the 13-inch MacBook Pro powered by its latest M2 chips, starting at a price tag of $1,299 for the base model with 256GB of storage.

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However, the Cupertino giant has slyly included a slower SSD for the base variant on the M2 MacBook Pro, compared to the 256GB 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro.

This was discovered by some YouTube channels such as Max Tech and Created Tech (highlighted by Macrumors) when they put the MacBook through its paces with Blackmagic¡¯s Disk Speed Test app.

Testing revealed a score of around 1,450MB/s, which according to the report was around 50 percent slower in reading and around 30 percent slower in writing when compared to the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 256GB of storage.

When Max Yuryev of Max Tech disassembled the novel MacBook 13 with M2, he was surprised to see that the notebook sported only a single NAND flash storage chip with 256GB of storage. Last year¡¯s M1 MacBook model sported two 128GB NAND flash storage chips. This explains the slower SSD speed since multiple NAND chips result in faster performance parallelly.

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This issue was only spotted on the base variant of the M2 MacBooks, with the higher 512GB and 1TB variants sporting similar read-write speeds compared to the M1 predecessor.

There¡¯s no accurate reason for this choice on Apple¡¯s part -- maybe it was due to costs or due to the chip shortage that currently engulfs the entire industry. But the considerable drop in performance is truly shocking.

Apple is yet to release an official statement for the same.

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