apple recently launched its new MacBook Air M3, which should guarantee better performance, Wi-Fi 6E and support for external displays. Furthermore, the Cupertino company would also have overcome a critical issue that afflicted previous models: the low reading and writing speeds of the SSD drive. This issue was due to the fact that the 256GB MacBook Air M2 used a single storage chip instead of two 128GB units like the latest model.
In particular, thanks to Gregory McFaddenit was possible to find out that Apple has now changed course, employing on the new laptop two 128GB NAND chips which have the ability to process tasks in parallel, thus increasing the speed of data transfer. In detail, the tests performed revealed the MacBook Air M3 can reach writing speeds of 2108 MB/s, exceeding those of the M2 MacBook Air which stopped at 1584 MB/s. As for reading speeds, the M2 MacBook Air reached 1576 MB/s, while the M3 MacBook Air reached 2880 MB/s.
Therefore, it seems clear that the latest MacBook Air has SSD write speeds are around 33% faster while read speeds are around 82% faster. In short, it would seem that Apple has once again improved the user experience.
