2023 MacBook Pro SSD Has Performance Drop Similar to M2 MacBook Air

SSD RW performance dramatically lower than previous generation

By Jean Jacques Maleval | January 27, 2023 at 2:01 pm

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2023 MacBook Pro SSD has performance drop similar to M2 MacBook Air
A quick look inside the base-level M2 Pro MacBook Pro revealed something I hadn’t expected to see – or, rather, that something I HAD expected to see was missing. Like the base level M2 MacBook Air, the base level of the latest 14? MacBook Pro seems to feature fewer NAND chips – at a higher capacity – than the last generation. This results in SSD read and write performance that’s dramatically lower than the previous generation.