So the new Mac Mini M2 Pro is out and it comes with a superior M2 Pro chipset you
can also choose up to 32 gigabytes around and you could also pick an ultra fast SSD inside
no you can't what you can't okay no you can't actually pick a super fast SSD inside the Mac
Mini but does that really matter well today I'm gonna find out if it does really matter that we
should have a faster SSD inside the Mac Mini and also in the likes of say the MacBook Air with the
M2 chipset and also that MacBook Pro with the M2 and also wire at it let's talk about the Mac Mini
with the M2 as well so rewind back to last year we got a brand new M2 chipset and in that we got
tweaked up performance cores and also efficiency cores and we also got an extra couple of cores
in the actual GPU performance too inside the M2 however one thing that did let us down was when
we actually started testing out these map repairs and also the MacBook Pro M2 we began to notice
actually the storage speed was Far Far slower and we thought Apple were cutting quarters and let's
be honest they are cutting but we'll get on to that a little bit later on but in the grand scheme
of things did it really make a difference in sort of doing video exporting and sort of General tasks
with your sort of MacBook Pro or your M2 MacBook Air well we'll come to the answer in just a minute
because we do also have now the brand new Mac Mini and inside this too we've actually noticed for the
M2 chipset compared to the M1 chipset inside this machine actually the actual storage is also slower
in this too and not only this we've also noticed if you put an M2 Pro chipset inside this that the
storage inside this machine is still not as fast in the likes of what you could get in a 14 or 16
inch MacBook Pro and talking about the 14 inch and 16 inch MacBook Pros actually the storage
is a tiny bit slower in them too but going back why is the storage slower this time round well
there are multiple reasons for this the first one could be that Apple are trying to cut Corners so
right now we do have a recession coming and it's impacting ours obviously Apple have had
to increase the prices of some of their Macs so noticeably the 16 inch MacBook Pro is a bit more
dearer than what we got last generation with the 16 inch MacBook Pros with either the M1 Pro or
the M1 Max the 14 inch has stayed about the same but funny enough that actually in the Mac Mini
that we've got here with the normal M2 chipset actually the cost of it is 100 less compared to
the M1 chipset that we've got about two years ago so really kind of the prices reflected in the Mac
Mini that obviously we do have a slower sort of storage inside it so that kind of makes sense but
what about the MacBook Pro what is going on there because at the end of the day the store which in
that it's actually a tiny bit slower to the last generation and I believe the main reason is is
because like I said the cost of living is going up we're hitting a recession so things are getting
more and more expensive it's just the natural way of things so this could be partly the reasons why
Apple are basically cop casting for their sort of way around things they're basically changing the
way how they build their ssds up basically so to make them a little bit slower but there again does
it really matter that they are a bit slower when you're actually doing sort of saying video exports
and things like this well have a look here at a video export of what I've done here on a 14 and
16 inch MacBook Pro with an M2 Pro and also with a Mac Mini with an M2 Pro chipset inside it and this
is the exact same Xbox as you can see here the export is basically neck and neck all three of the
machines like I say have the exact same 12 cores CPU and they also have the 19 core GP you inside
it and they all exported the same 4K h36 file and what this had on it this had up to about three uh
4K streams on it all at once and also had separate audio too and it managed to export everything
together all around the same sort of speed so as we can see here straight away having a slower SSD
in this Mac Mini doesn't really do any difference so really I think Apple actually personally in my
opinion made a mistake when they bought out the M1 Mac Mini because they over sort of thought of how
much sort of storage sort of speeds were actually needed so there wasn't really there's not even
really a bottleneck today as there was about then because generally the kind of tasks that you'll
be doing on this machine the storage is more than fast enough for your needs obviously it's
great to do copy and pasting from say an external sort of hard drive or external SSD what can go up
to say I don't know sort of Thunderbolt three or four speeds uh kind of sort of 40 gigabytes
those kind of speeds and transferring onto the internal sort of storage that we have inside
it obviously that is going to be far far quicker but generally speaking it doesn't really matter
too much when you're doing actually sort of the actual tasks of exporting and also moving things
around so you would actually be creating videos and bits like this and creating photos really the
actual storage speed doesn't really matter at all because we've actually hit the limitation of the
M2 Pro chipset and it can't actually export or do anything anymore faster so the storage speed
is more than enough and I believe this is the same case for say the MacBook Air obviously the
MacBook Air you wouldn't be buying this map the air to be doing all your 4K video edits on it you
would not be loading say wedding videos onto this machine and editing it all the time as your main
machine you might have it as an on-the-go sort of device or backup device if you can afford it but
yet at the end of the day this wouldn't be your primary machine for those reasons an apple no
this the MacBook Air is designed for the kind of General kind of user out there and they know
that if you do want that kind of pro performance then you'd go and pick yourself the 14 or 16 inch
MacBook Pro but does actually have a faster SSD inside it because that is what that machine is
designed for and it's the same with the Mac Studio too you would only pick both of these machines or
one of these machines if you know you're going to be needing super fast speeds because you're
doing lots of sort of video editing you're doing 8K streams and things like this or lots of sort
of photos sort of buffering and bits and pieces like that on these machines you wouldn't be buying
either of these computers just to be doing word on it or just browsing the internet or maybe putting
a filter on a photo that you took on your iPhone you wouldn't be buying it for these reasons at
all there'd be no point with this and personally combined with Apple trying to make things a little
bit cheaper so they can keep the cost around the same or only rise it a little bit I think this is
the reason why storage is a little bit slower I think apple overestimated on how fast they needed
the ssds to be inside their M1 series of Max and now they've decided to actually cut it back
a little bit in the M2 series and for that we do feel a little bit sort of shortchanged or a little
bit cheaper to buy that but like I said what Apple should have done is in the first generation of the
M1 series of Max they should have had that same sort of storage setup what we're now getting in
the M2 series if we had got that experience on day one I don't think we wouldn't be having as much
of the sort of niggles or the complaints that we have now because at the end of the day like I say
it has been cut back and then again we do really feel cheapened out by that and that is my thoughts
on why I think that basically Apple have actually decided to cut back on the storage kind of speeds
I would love to know what your thoughts are as well on this so do put them down in the comments
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