The MacBook Pro 16 starts at $2,500 for a 12-core CPU/19-core GPU M2 Pro, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. The laptop tops out at $6,500 for a 12-core CPU/38-core GPU M2 Max, 96GB of RAM, and an 8TB SSD.

Apple recently launched its M2-powered 13-inch MacBook Pro. The base model of the laptop delivers slower SSD speeds than the M1 MacBook Pro and competing Windows laptops, leading to criticism of ...

And it’s not a small difference: The new M2-based laptop has SSD read speeds that are 50 percent slower, while write speeds take a 30 percent hit.

The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros powered by the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips feature faster SSD write speeds compared to their predecessors, according to tests and reviews of the new laptops ...

Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag tested a 14-inch M2 Pro-equipped laptop with a 2TB SSD, as well as one with an M2 Max processor (which is only available with a 1TB SSD and up), and the storage turned ...

The base 256GB version of the M2 MacBook Air has a slower SSD than the M1 MacBook Air, leading to slower data transfers between the laptop and super-fast external hard drives. Antonio Villas-Boas ...

With the switch to M2, Apple moved from using 128GB NAND chips to using 256GB NAND chips, so now the base M2 laptops only have a single chip. This leads to a significant decrease in SSD read and ...

These new laptops are all about the new M2 Pro and M2 Max processors, ... The M2 Pro’s SSD more than doubled the performance of the M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, which we tested with a 1TB SSD.

The MacBook Air M2 we tested, by comparison, arrived sporting an upgraded M2 chip with a 10-core GPU (instead of the default 8-core), 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. To buy the same laptop from Apple ...

The M2 MacBook Air is the laptop Apple has always wanted to make -- and in most cases, it's a rousing success. ... which is the $1,499 model that comes with 8GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD.