Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by jeswin on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:02AM
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> and they come with blazingly fast SSDs...
Actually, they're somewhat slow compared to the competition.
A 500GB M1 SSD gives you about 3.1GB/s of write and 2.75GB/s of read performance [1]. In comparison - a $219 Samsung 980 Pro benchmarks at 4.2GB/s of write and 5.2GB/s of read performance [2]. Both on Disk Test from Black Magic.
Actually, they're somewhat slow compared to the competition.
A 500GB M1 SSD gives you about 3.1GB/s of write and 2.75GB/s of read performance [1]. In comparison - a $219 Samsung 980 Pro benchmarks at 4.2GB/s of write and 5.2GB/s of read performance [2]. Both on Disk Test from Black Magic.
[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/k2lhi8/ssd_speedtest_o...
[2]: https://www.servethehome.com/samsung-980-pro-500gb-pcie-gen4....