Currently, customers in various countries have received orders for the MacBook Pro M2 and some of them made video reviews of the hardware performance of the device.
MacBook Pro M2 is designed as the next generation of MacBook Pro M1 which was released at the end of 2020.
Despite its status as a successor, the MacBook Pro M2 doesn't necessarily bring "perfect" improvements over the MacBook Pro M2.
MacBook Pro M2 does not bring an SSD compared to the previous generation MacBook Pro M1.
A test video from the Max Tech Youtube channel proves that the MacBook Pro M2 SSD has a lower speed than the MacBook Pro M1.
The standard MacBook Pro M2 model has 256GB of SSD storage with lagging read/write capabilities compared to the MacBook Pro M1.
Max Tech did the test with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test which is an application that measures the performance and transfer speed of internal and external memory on Mac.
Benchmark results reveal that the entry-level MacBook Pro M2 SSD is 34% slower than the Model M1 for write speeds.
As for the read speed, the MacBook pro M2 is up to 50% slower than the MacBook Pro M1 .
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MacBook Pro M1 has a speed of 2900MB/sec for read speed and 2215MB/sec for write speed.
While the MacBook Pro M2 only has a read speed of 1446MB/sec and a write speed of 1463MB/sec.
Something quite different is found in the comparison of the MacBook Pro M2 with a SSD 512GB
YouTuber Zollotech points out that the 512GB MacBook Pro M2 has the same SSD speed as the MacBook Pro M1.
speed MacBook Pro M2's slow SSD is due to Apple changing the SSD type in the base model of the MacBook Pro M2.
Based on a teardown video from YouTube channel Created Tech, the MacBook Pro M2 with a 256GB SSD only has one NAND chip.
While the MacBook Pro M1 has 2 NAND chips of 128GB each.
Please note, SSDs that have multiple NAND chipsets can have better speeds.
This is the main reason why the MacBook Pro M2 256GB has a slower speed than the MacBook Pro M1.