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New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Re: New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Post by _ph_ »

cgriswald wrote: post #6

> Before you go and start casting aspersions at Apple, the move makes a lot of sense. It'd be one thing if it did this and raised the price, but it actually lowered the price by $100, and the education discount brings it down to $999, making it the most affordable modern MacBook laptop ever (the outdated MacBook Air does not count). Which is fine for the entry-level model. Is it true for the more expensive model? The…

As I wrote below, slower SSD for lower prices is something I agree with, their SSD prices are just completely disconnected from the market.

Re: New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Post by lotsofpulp »

_ph_ wrote: post #4

Apple might have chosen cheeper SSDs to lower prices - which in principle think is a good idea on the entry level laptop, even cheap SSDs are plenty fast - why are they still charging insane prices for their SSD upgrades? Current market prices for SSD are between 150 and 300€/tb. For SSD upgrades in the MB Air, Apple is charging 240€ for each upgrade step. That means prices between 1920€/tb (128->256g) and 480€/tb (5…

>why are they still charging insane prices for their SSD upgrades?

The answer to "why are they charging this much for so and so" is always "because a sufficient number of people are willing to pay it."

Re: New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Post by cpuguy83 »

cgriswald wrote: post #6

> Before you go and start casting aspersions at Apple, the move makes a lot of sense. It'd be one thing if it did this and raised the price, but it actually lowered the price by $100, and the education discount brings it down to $999, making it the most affordable modern MacBook laptop ever (the outdated MacBook Air does not count). Which is fine for the entry-level model. Is it true for the more expensive model? The…

Touch Bar, no... but Touch ID?

Re: New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Post by filleokus »

I like fast SSD's as much as everyone else, but it's not like those disks are a slouch. 1.3 GB/s is still plenty fast, especially for those who are in the market for the Macbook Air.

It's probably however the first time, I can remember at least, where Apple downgraded a newer model in such an unequivocal way.

I mean newer CPU's have had different multicore/single core tradeoffs, the inclusion of a dedicated GPU have been removed in base models etc, and the endless discussion of ports (rip SD card slot etc) but I don't think we have ever seen something like this?

Re: New 2019 MacBook Air features a slower SSD than 2018 model

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Post by jschwartzi »

_ph_ wrote: post #4

Apple might have chosen cheeper SSDs to lower prices - which in principle think is a good idea on the entry level laptop, even cheap SSDs are plenty fast - why are they still charging insane prices for their SSD upgrades? Current market prices for SSD are between 150 and 300€/tb. For SSD upgrades in the MB Air, Apple is charging 240€ for each upgrade step. That means prices between 1920€/tb (128->256g) and 480€/tb (5…

I just bought a 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD for $110.00 off Amazon. It's about 1Gbit/sec slower than the next price point but it's about 2 or 3 times as fast as my existing SATA SSD.

The next-highest price point was a 3Gbit/sec 1TB SSD for about $150.00.

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