On March 4, Apple introduced new MacBook Air models with the M3 chip and other big-ticket improvements. Looks like with their new laptops Apple also fixed an issue that was present on the previous generation MacBook Air.SSD storage speeds.

The MacBook Air with the base 256GB M2 chip had slower speeds than other configurations with higher storage. Because that was it The 256GB MacBook Air used a single chip instead of two 128GB chips.

The MacBook Air with M1 chip had two 128 GB chips. A hardware configuration that returns with the arrival of the M3 chip model.

New MacBook Air M3 has faster SSD speed

A new discovery reveals that 2024 MacBook Air increased SSD speed This was one of the main differences between the MacBook Air M2 and MacBook Air M3, thanks to the implementation of two 128 GB chips.

The news emerged after YouTuber Maximum Technology After opening the laptop and examining its hardware, he will publish the information in video form.

This is unexpected; apparently the 256GB base model M3 Air has a faster SSD drive compared to the controversial M2 Air. pic.twitter.com/mTqwxcbtSE

— GregsGadgets (@GregoryMcFadden) March 8, 2024

This was unexpected; It appears that the base 256GB MacBook Air model has a faster SSD drive compared to the controversial Air M2.

Thanks to this interesting innovation that Apple has included in its new laptops, MacBook Air with M3 chip, process more tasks in parallelIt increases data transfer speeds.

MacBook Air M3 typing speed 2108MbpsReaching MacBook Air M2 write speeds 1584Mbps. On the other hand, the reading speed of the MacBook Air M3 2880Mbps and that of the MacBook Air M2 1576Mbps.