According to a French website, the renewed MacBook Air, of which Apple recently lowered the price by 100 euros, has an SSD with lower read speeds compared to the SSD from the MacBook Air from 2018. It would be a reduction of 35 percent.
The website Consomac states that there is little difference between the MacBook Air introduced last week and the previous version from 2018, except for one point: the SSD. With the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, the website determines that the new laptop with 256GB storage is capable of writing speeds of 1GB/s and reading speeds of 1.3GB/s. The previous model reached 920MB/s and 2GB/s respectively. That means a small improvement in the writing speed, but the reading speed is a lot lower. Consomac speculates that the price drop in the updated MacBook Air may be due to the integration of a cheaper SSD into the laptop, and that this will make little difference to most buyers.
A week ago, Apple introduced the renewed MacBook Air and gave it a hundred euros lower starting price than last year’s version. The cheapest new model costs 1249 euros and has an SSD with a storage space of 128GB; it has read speeds of 500MB/s and write speeds of 1.3GB/s, which would correspond to the 2018 version. The version with a 256GB SSD costs 1499 euros and does not differ from the 128GB version apart from the SSD. Both models have True Tone for automatic adjustment of the color temperature of the screen and get the same CPU: an Intel i5 dual core of the eighth generation with a clock speed of 1.6GHz and a boost to 3.6GHz.