The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop (macrumors.com) 262
Last week, Apple refreshed the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro models, bringing newer Intel processors and quieter keyboards. The new 13-inch MacBook Pro also just so happens to feature the fastest SSD ever in a laptop, according to benchmarks from Laptop Mag. Mac Rumors summarizes the findings: The site's tests were performed on the $2,499 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar equipped with a 2.7GHz quad-core 8th-generation Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus 655, and a 512GB SSD. A file copy test of the SSD in the new MacBook Pro, which Apple says supports sequential read speeds of up to 3.2GB/s and sequential write speeds up to 2.2GB/s, led Laptop Mag to declare the SSD in the MacBook Pro "the fastest ever" in a laptop. Higher capacity SSDs may see even faster speeds on disk speeds tests. A BlackMagic Disk Speed test was also conducted, resulting in an average write speed of 2,682 MB/s.
On a Geekbench 4 CPU benchmark, the 13-inch MacBook Pro earned a score of 18,055 on the multi-core test, outperforming 13-inch machines from companies like Dell, HP, Asus, and Microsoft. That score beats out all 2017 MacBook Pro models and is faster than some iMac configurations. 15-inch MacBook Pro models with 6-core 8th-generation Intel chips will show even more impressive speeds. With that said, the 13-inch MacBook Pro didn't quite measure up to other machines when it came to GPU performance. "The 13-inch 2018 MacBook Pro uses Intel's Iris Plus Graphics 655 with 128MB of embedded DRAM and was unable to compete in a Dirt 3 graphics test, getting only 38.8 frames per second," reports Mac Rumors. "All Windows-based machines tested offered much better performance."
On a Geekbench 4 CPU benchmark, the 13-inch MacBook Pro earned a score of 18,055 on the multi-core test, outperforming 13-inch machines from companies like Dell, HP, Asus, and Microsoft. That score beats out all 2017 MacBook Pro models and is faster than some iMac configurations. 15-inch MacBook Pro models with 6-core 8th-generation Intel chips will show even more impressive speeds. With that said, the 13-inch MacBook Pro didn't quite measure up to other machines when it came to GPU performance. "The 13-inch 2018 MacBook Pro uses Intel's Iris Plus Graphics 655 with 128MB of embedded DRAM and was unable to compete in a Dirt 3 graphics test, getting only 38.8 frames per second," reports Mac Rumors. "All Windows-based machines tested offered much better performance."
No it's not (Score:5, Informative)
Some research [pcmag.com] turns up that:
In other words, the files weren't copied. A hard link (similar to a shortcut for you Windows users) was created. The whole story is an error by non-techie journalists who noticed something wildly odd in their test results, and rather than spend 30 seconds researching it online like I did, decided "it must be because it's Apple!" and published it. The reality distortion field is alive and well.
Apple has been using Sandisk NAND [ifixit.com] lately as a bid to try to reduce dependence on Samsung. Both Sandisk and Toshiba SSDs (also used frequently by Apple) regularly benchmark slower than Samsung SSDs.
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I could believe the 2.2GB/s sequential write speed, that doesn't sound outrageous. I just benchmarked a top end Carbon X1 (a number of months old now, can't remember how much) which is substantially lighter than the MBPs.
It might have an older gen SSD (not sure), but it happily gets 1.3GB/s sequential write speed. A factor of two improvement on disk for a larger, heaver laptop with a substantially smaller SSD doesn't sound outrageous.
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That means two things:
1) if you happen to write many files (eg tree copy) or a few very big files, the speed will go down quickly to something like the "regular" SSDs
2) if you copy a very big file, and power goes down while you think it is copied (but is still in buffer), then you lost one file. (power down on a laptop is a rare event I must say, esp. on a Macbook)
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Re:No it's not (Score:4, Interesting)
A clone is not technically a hard link, but it works similarly: The disk blocks storing the data are not affected, only references to them.
However, unlike with links, a disk block could get copied as soon as you would to write to a file.
Thus, cloning retains the same semantics as copying --- actual copying is only deferred until it is really needed.
This technique is classically called "copy-on-write" and is employed in lots of different ways in many different parts of mainstream operating systems.
BTW. Btrfs [wikipedia.org] for Linux also has cloning, and it was released eight years earlier than APFS. Sun's/Oracle's ZFS has cloning and was released earlier than that.
I think there are many more examples in the free software world than those two.
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It retains the same semantics as copying, until of course a block gets corrupted and *all* your backup copies are damaged in exactly the same spot. Then you realize it is actually not a copy, but a reference.
That's kinda what I don't like about Apple (Score:2)
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A hard link (similar to a shortcut for you Windows users) was created.
Softlinks are like shortcuts. Hardlinks are something entirely different, multiple physical filesystem entries to the same blocks of data. If you make a shortcut to a file and delete the original then the shortcut doesn't do anything. If you make a hard link and delete the original then the link is unaffected and the blocks are only marked as deleted when all hard links are gone.
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A hard link (similar to a shortcut for you Windows users) was created.
Windows has hard links [microsoft.com], most users just don't know how to make or use them. I'll bet for the same reason (lack of knowledge of command lines), most Mac users don't know how to do this either [howtogeek.com].
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So does MS-DOS 3.11, you idiot!
P.S.: what's a hard link?
SIZE, not speed is what most of us need in a SSD (Score:5, Insightful)
I have an SSD and it boots instantly. Apps and game levels are near instantaneous. Speed isn't my problem. With games taking up 100GB now, even my 500GB SSD is constantly running out of space. When I do upgrade, I'll get a fast replacement, but size, not speed will be my primary requirement,
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Apple does sell bigger sizes than their defaults. I remember seeing 1 TB SSDs last year. Yes, I agree to take sizes over speed. Also, small sizes and prices are the problems. :(
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Depends on the game, the difference between FO4 on an SSD and an HDD is noticeable. Most of the doors in that game = loading new area.
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This is not true at all anymore. Game assets are far too big to fit in memory anymore.
*Fastest*? (Score:3)
SSDs are already really fucking fast... Marketing this is a moot point. Your average consumer (worst, your average APPLE consumer) won't be able to tell the difference, assuming there actually is one.
I remember power cycling my Win7 laptop from college just for shits and giggles, being very impressed with the differences from installing your OS on a SSD over a HDD. That was 8~ years ago.
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As a start, what manufacturer/model SSD is it?
Some changes in laptops drop capability (Score:3)
There surely have been improvements in laptops such as higher quality screens, touch screens, two-and-one hardware, energy efficient electronics giving much longer on battery use, lighter weight, etc. But, laptops are generally meant to be easily portable. Thinner, lighter devices requiring a bulky dongles somewht reduce that advantage
While other notebooks (Score:2)
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I don't care... (Score:5, Insightful)
I want magsafe so my toddler won't destroy my mac while crawling around, a few usb ports I can use without a dongle, my F-keys, and a sane keyboard.
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I want magsafe so my toddler won't destroy my mac while crawling around, a few usb ports I can use without a dongle, my F-keys, and a sane keyboard.
And a physical escape key, so I know when I am pressing it.
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I want magsafe so my toddler won't destroy my mac while crawling around,
I found the BreakSafe cable from Griffin to be a nice substitute. It does suck a bit to have to buy an accessory to restore functionality lost from a previous design. On the other hand $40 to protect a computer that cost over $1000 is not that bad in the greater scheme. Given that I have an option to buy a non-Apple power supply and cable means I'm not locked in to whatever Apple charges for spares. Since my last two laptops needed spare power supplies because I broke the one that came with it I expect
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Re:Great. (Score:4, Interesting)
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Apple for giving me an entirely new laptop body; but what happens when the same failures happen in two years and I DON'T have Apple Care?
The same thing that happens anytime a 4 year old computer fails -- you need to make the decision of whether it's cheaper to pay for the repair or buy a new one (possibly from a different manufacturer). My last Macbook lasted just under 4 years before I ran into problems (screen blanked out randomly), and since that was in daily use (including commuting on the back of my bike), I consider that to be pretty reasonable.
I have a 7 year old Lenovo laptop that still runs fine, but it rarely leaves the house.
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"happens when the same failures happen in two years and I DON'T have Apple Care?"
I've had design/component failures on two of my Macs, both in and out of warranty. They were always fixed for free, including many nitpicky little things like a missing key cap, added RAM that didn't meet specs, etc. When the Geniuses see a 'known problem' they seem to fix it regardless of warranty. YMMV.
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The cost of manufacture is a pretty small portion of the total cost of these systems. Sure, the marginal cost of a single CPU is fairly low, but the R&D investment is massive and the fab itself is several billion dollars that needs to be recouped somehow.
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Fortunately for Apple, they're not the ones doing the R&D on the CPU.
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The cost of manufacture is a pretty small portion of the total cost of these systems. Sure, the marginal cost of a single CPU is fairly low, but the R&D investment is massive and the fab itself is several billion dollars that needs to be recouped somehow.
Exactly.
Looking at BOM costs only as the arbiter of what retail price of a high tech product should be is ignorant, dangerous and naive.
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No it isn't. What is ignorant is paying a 5000% markup on a product that is mass produced. Now THAT is stupid.
Ok, let's use those numbers.
If the BOM cost of a MacBook Pro is in fact $300, then the MSRP for that product at 5000% markup would be:
$15,000
Isn't debunking Hater Hyperbole fun?
Re:Great. (Score:4, Interesting)
I think the real reason is because MacBooks have kind of become the Windows of the laptop world, you get them because it's what everybody else has so it's the safe bet. They're everywhere across airport lounges to university campuses and they can run macOS, Linux and/or Windows, they have very limited configuration options so they are easy to manage, when they do break you can just take them into the official shop for repair rather than having to send them off, Apple has left the high performance and lowend markets to their competitors and provide a middling product for the majority. There isn't really a compelling reason to get one but there's not really a compelling reason not to either, they even mitigate the relatively poor value proposition with 0% interest financing options.
These days the people who don't have them are the people who either don't want them or are at the very low end of the price bracket that is really dominated by Chromebooks. In recent years the quality value proposition has died off too, they used to be way more reliable but my last 3 macbooks have had to go in for repair from creaky chassis to dead USB ports to rattling fans which really comes from poor quality control but at least when they do go wrong it's easy to get them fixed. For high performance computing there are way better options but for your average user the MacBook "Pro" covers pretty much everything.
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...you get them because it's what everybody else has so it's the safe bet. They're everywhere across airport lounges to university campuses
Other than motivation for developers to write software, how does the fact that other people have a Mac (or PC, or whatever) make it a "safe bet"? What does that mean? That is, what is everyone betting on?
Most software we use these days (speaking very generally) is web based and works with any browser. What does it matter which platform the people around you use?
And I'm also unsure why having them in airports and campuses is some sort of benefit to anyone. No one is going to loan you their Mac just because y
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Other than motivation for developers to write software, how does the fact that other people have a Mac (or PC, or whatever) make it a "safe bet"? What does that mean? That is, what is everyone betting on?
It's the same hardware and design that everybody else has so chances are if there is a serious design or manufacturing fault then everybody is going to have it and that puts much more weight behind it being fixed (see the keyboard issue as an example). Also community support is obviously much better when everybody is using the same product.
Most software we use these days (speaking very generally) is web based and works with any browser.
Maybe most software you use is, but that isn't the reality for most people. Many of the tasks common to the majority of users have web based versions but just because the
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I'm unsure why you think I was implying that, feel free to point out why you think that though. What I'm saying is they're everywhere, if you need a laptop beyond simple web-based apps (for which a Chromebook should suffice) and you don't have any specific or demanding compute requirements then most people seem to just buy a MacBook.
As I go through airports (frequently) and visit college campuses (occasionally), I do not see that most people have Macbooks...I see a mix of Chromebooks, Macbooks, and an overwhelming preponderance of Windows laptops.
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People who are serious about typing don't buy MacBooks any more. Apple keyboards used to be poor but acceptable, but they are just really poor.
My current workplace gave me a Macbook to use and yes, the keyboard is shit. Shit, shit, SHIT.
I've currently got it plugged into a spare Windows keyboard because the Mac keyboard is so sucky.
Re:Great. (Score:4)
But the counterargument is - who the hell needs a 4K or 5K display in a 13" laptop. Which could also be said of the "fastest SSD in any laptop".
We've long passed the time when desktop/laptop hardware improvements actually improve the experience of using the device - and we're rapidly approaching that time for mobile devices too. There may be some use cases that demand the best/fastest/highest resolution hardware money can buy - but it's not your average MacBook user's use case.
Which, I guess in a way is a shame. Improvements in commodity hardware led the way to improvements everywhere. Server hardware got cheaper because they could use RAID arrays of the same commodity hard drives that desktops - and later laptops - used, benefiting from the economies of scale that apply to consumer hardware, even though servers didn't sell at anywhere near those levels. But that party's over - and since most server platforms today scale horizontally, they have other ways of improving performance than relying on raw horsepower improvements.
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I really like having a 4K display in my laptop, 13" or 15". It provides much crisper / clearer text which is vital when programming with lots on text on screen. My next laptop is probably going to be the pixelbook 2 though, since it now runs linux client apps.
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A 4k 13" display has a PPI high enough to match phone display levels of readability. Small phone screens are very readable because the fonts are well defined.
Overall you are right though. A Lenovo or NEC laptop is pretty much perfect now, apart perhaps from the price.
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Remember to separate price (objective) from value (subjective). If you don't value the lightness, the price increase is just a negative.
And, for a fair comparison and as by your statement ("make sure that all data matches"), the macbook should also match the alternative. I would expect a $3500 device to have a USB-A port, and would value that more than -300 g.
That said, I sometimes explain (and demonstrate) to my coworkers that their $1400 equivalent Lenovo T-series laptop is not, in fact, equivalent (2 cor
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Remember to separate price (objective) from value (subjective). If you don't value the lightness, the price increase is just a negative.
And, for a fair comparison and as by your statement ("make sure that all data matches"), the macbook should also match the alternative. I would expect a $3500 device to have a USB-A port, and would value that more than -300 g.
That said, I sometimes explain (and demonstrate) to my coworkers that their $1400 equivalent Lenovo T-series laptop is not, in fact, equivalent (2 cores instead of 4, lower CPU speed, SATA SSD, intel GPU) to my MBP (no touchbar). (It is easy to demonstrate; build times are consistently ~30% lower on my laptop than theirs, no hocus-pocus.) Equally specced out, the price difference turns out marginal, as you indicate. And then my smug glee turns into a frown as they go to IT and get 32 MB installed while I am stuck with 16.
Just think how your smile will return when you submit that requisition for a 6 core, 32 GB MBP next time around...
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Just think how your smile will return when you submit that requisition for a 6 core, 32 GB MBP next time around...
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People talk like that but at least custom drivers don't break constantly in Windows.
Hmm. Reports of Windows 10 borking people's factory custom drivers are frequent. Just had a customer bring in his quite expensive HP EliteBook following the double whammy of the Windows 10 1803 upgrade and an update to his Intel graphics driver. The laptop would not light up the screen when waking up from sleep mode.
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In no universe does Apple pay retail prices for their CPUs.
Re: Great. (Score:2)
People are weird like that. Being cheap on their food, bed, work equipment and other thing that actually matter while lavishly spending on all kinds of nonsense.
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I don't understand why people continue to pay such prices for mainstream technology.
$2500 spread over 5 years, is less than 1% of a developer's salary. If a Mac makes you more productive, then buying it is a no-brainer.
The build cost is irrelevant.
Americans, in particular, typically confuse Price and Value. They continually do stuff like count Ports, GBs, etc,to determine "value", even if strapped together with chewing gum and bailing wire, and a hodgepodge of sweatshop-produced Drivers into a "Product" that will be in a landfill in 2 or 3 years.
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How would a Mac make you more productive?
Because, unlike Windows, it comes with a full suite of Unix command line tools.
Because, unlike Linux, everything "just works". No futzing with drivers, or figuring out how to crop an image with Gimp.
I have a Mac. It doesn't make me more productive.
Then why do you have it?
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How do you crop images? And how did you come to know this without having to figure it out?
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How do you crop images?
Just click on the image, and it will open the right tool.
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Didn't do that for me on either mac or windows, it loaded a tool (preview.app) and i had to figure out the appropriate option to make it crop the image - no different to linux.
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Because, unlike Windows, it comes with a full suite of Unix command line tools.
Uh, the last time I tried to write a bash script in osx I had to do a whole bunch of strange notation crap to work around osx. So, yes it's nice that ssh works, but not exactly native unix.
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Uh, the last time I tried to write a bash script in osx I had to do a whole bunch of strange notation crap to work around osx.
You should learn to write portable code. I have plenty of scripts that work with no changes on OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux. When there are problems, it is usually Linux that is the outlier.
but not exactly native unix.
Yes it is. Mac OS X is a full Unix kernel by any criteria.
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The current generation of Macbooks will have nearly zero resale value once their Applecare coverage ends.
That's highly unlikely, if history is any judge.
Re:overpriced (Score:5, Interesting)
It's one hell of a display, though... I'm looking at it now, and it beats the crap out of any other laptop display I've seen.
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Are you an extreme narcissist looking at a black screen?
Re:overpriced (Score:4, Interesting)
I'm not impressed by the Mac displays....they used to be very good but now they're just on par with offerings by every other manufacturer. I use a Mac at work and sitting next to a $500 laptop from Acer or Dell or anyone else it looks pretty much the same.
Re:overpriced (Score:4, Informative)
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I wonder if Apple does some factory colour calibration.
Other manufacturers do on some models, but often a better option is to buy yourself a colour calibration device. That way you can calibrate all your displays to be the same and suited to your work environment lighting.
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I guess Apple prefer displays that "pop", go insanely bright for epeen^W benchmarks and are very very thin. They have always been fond of using software to calibrate out limitations of hardware, such as their speakers.
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Re: overpriced (Score:2)
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You want me to compare a 2880 x 1800 to a 4k screen at 15 inches. Ok but you're not gonna like the results.
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So you want to compare a $500 Acer to a $3000 Mac. That's how your going to claim it's a better panel?
What part of "looks pretty much the same" was unclear? I didn't say it was "better", I said it looked about the same as the much more expensive Macbook.
To recap: the $500 Dell sitting next to a $2500 Macbook looks damn near the same to me. If we masked off the screens I doubt most people would reliably be able to tell which was which.
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I especially hope this is t
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A $500 Acer doesn't have the same display as a MacBook Pro.
Thank you, that's exactly my point: it still looks every bit as good and crisp and sharp and colorful.
Like I said, I really can't see $2000 worth of difference between them.
Great display - for 2013 (Score:3)
Sadly I think the display is one of its most dated parts - it's hardly changed from the screen on my 2013 MacBook Pro. Which was great for its day, but falls far short of modern offerings.
Other laptops offer much higher resolutions like 3200x1800 or 3840x2160, real HDR, 120Hz frame rates, smaller bezels, touch sensitivity... the Alienware 13 even has OLED. While Apple is still serving up basically the same LCD "Retina" 2880x1440 displays for years now. They still have decent colour gamuts but nothing you ca
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The 2013 MBP was a great machine. I still have one, maxed out.
It still works great. I also got very good service even after my AppleCare ran out. I paid $200 to get a new batter and got a new screen, keyboard and battery for free (because the old screen had some defects).
All I had to do to get service was to walk into a random Apple store. This is much harder with other vendors.
The old MBP was a great machine. I bought it because I couldn't stand the idea of moving to Windows 8, so I jumped ship. Its hands
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$2500+ for something with a display only slightly larger than a tablet? No thanks.
You know as laptops for a given performance get smaller and lighter the price tends to go up rather steeply. And you don't get very light laptops with large screens.
Though it's still a mac so it still has a shitty keyboard.
Re:Macs (Score:4, Interesting)
Linux enables me to spend a great deal more on a laptop or a workstation actually. I see this anemic little SSD and chuckle. So what if it's "fast". I would rather have more storage.
I can get 2.5TB of SSD storage on a Linux laptop.
My old bruiser has 2.5TB of conventional storage. My "outdated" bruiser probably still has a better GPU than this Apple toy.
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I'm running Linux on an old, beat-up 17" Macbook Pro. It does the job but the keyboard is a pain to use, e.g. why don't Apple know the difference between backspace and delete? Why not have an extended keyboard, which includes lots of convenient, time-saving keys, on a 17" laptop?
I swapped out the old HDD for an SSD (Basic Samsung 500GB) as soon as I got it and you know what? The SSD does everything faster than the rest of the laptop.
BTW, super-fast SSDs are only useful if you frequently transfer very large
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Linux enables me to spend a great deal more on a laptop or a workstation actually. I see this anemic little SSD and chuckle. So what if it's "fast". I would rather have more storage.
I can get 2.5TB of SSD storage on a Linux laptop.
My old bruiser has 2.5TB of conventional storage. My "outdated" bruiser probably still has a better GPU than this Apple toy.
That Apple "toy" can be configured with up to a 6 core CPU as well as 4 TB of the FASTEST laptop SSD around
Now what?
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I gave up buying Apple stuff in 1988
So, let me get this straight:
The las Apple Computer you bought had one of the following CPUs:
1 MHz 6502
2 MHz 65816
20 MHz 68020
25 MHz 68030
Think there's been any performance advances between that and a 2.9 GHz, 6 core Intel CPU? Think your comment has even a scintilla of relevance to this discussion?
Didn't think so.
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I was going to say Netscape Navigator, but either way.
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That's the one - monster fucking object of doom. 47,000 methods and 46,999 are getters and setters.
No it's not the same as having a load of globals, can't you see how OO it is?
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This is why I found Ruby on Rails an exercise in despair. Big ass "Swiss army knife" objects with a billion methods, each one harder to find sane documentation than the previous.
Single area of responsibility folks, learn it.
Re: I wonder .... (Score:2)
That's just awkward. You could have just said "shagging" and left the sheep alone, ya cunt.
Re: I wonder .... (Score:2)
Re:Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... (Score:4, Insightful)
A 5 year old computer is slower than a new one? I' m shocked.
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A 5 year old computer is slower than a new one? I' m shocked.
Ok, fair point. I'm stunned at the magnitude of the speed difference, though. My work laptop also has SSDs, and it doesn't install Windows 10 into a VM that fast - and it's a Lenovo W530; not exactly a slouch.
Re:Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... (Score:5, Informative)
My work laptop also has SSDs, and it doesn't install Windows 10 into a VM that fast - and it's a Lenovo W530; not exactly a slouch.
You're on the wrong side of the PCIe attached storage divide. The W530 has a weedy 6Gb/s SATA-III interface (my W510 has weedier SATA-II). The good Samsung drives can manage about 5x SATA-III speed on writes and more on reads.
Actually looking that up, I notived that the benchmark for the supposed "fastest SSD in a laptop" almost exactly matches the Samsung 970 EVO drive benchmarks.
Re: Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... (Score:4, Insightful)
You could have bought a $500 laptop, tossed a $100 SSD in it, and been equally blown away.
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The Apple products you have used must also have been eight years old then (ok, maybe four), if by outperforms you mean generally run faster.
The T400:s are great machines, but neither my T430 with a SATA SSD or the newer ones my colleges at work have, touch my 2015 MPB in speed. And the MBP touchpad makes the T4?0:s feel like toys.
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The T400:s are great machines, but neither my T430 with a SATA SSD or the newer ones my colleges at work have, touch my 2015 MPB in speed.
A laptop 3 years older, and substantially cheaper is slower? Well... yes. A good bit of the reason is the T430 probably has SATA, not NVMe, for the disc.
I've got a 2017 MBP for work and I'm not overly impressed, compared to other high end laptops of the same general vintage. The touch pad's OK I guess, but I'm not really a mouse heavy user (though the mac interface makes
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Dell's whole Latitude series supports NVMe M.2 cards. Even the cheapest 3490 (starting at $450).
However, you need to buy a 5xxx series to get 4x and not a 2x slot.
Re: Having just bought a new MacBoo Pro... (Score:2)
It's pretty much irrelevant; the difference in speed in unnoticeable unless you've got them side side and are doing a direct comparison. A decent SSD and a top of the line one FEEL the same for general computing.
Of course if he's got his laptop hooked up in a datacenter serving database content to thousands of users, it's going to make a big difference. But if that's the case he's a moron anyway.
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Truth.
I never bother with NVMe or even laptop M.2 slots when upgrading peoples' machines, I just throw a 2.5" SSD SATA drive in and everyone is always like "wow, it's so much faster."
Even on my big number-crunching machine (which for some reason the stupid proprietary software we use refuses to just use all the RAM, leaves half of it free, and does a shit-ton of small reads-writes to buffer files whose location is NOT CONFIGURABLE. Thanks.)... I tested moving from a SATA SSD drive to a PCI SSD and it didn't
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Yes it seems like something of a rather tall claim, especially as there are luggable workstations out there with nvme storage. Plus what are those shiteboxes getting a paltry 270MB/s. My ancient laptop from 2010ish happily does that, which is close to the theoretical maximum of its SATA II interface.
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OEM SSDs are notoriously overpriced (ie, the markup is HUGE) and they are notoriously the bottom of the line. That said, this seems to be about standard for an NVMe SSD running PCIe x4 over DMI.
True: and it more or less perfectly matches the measured benchmarks for the Samsung EVO 970.
Even if the "comparison" machines were using comparable hardware, the limitation is within the OS -- Windows cannot do I/O (of any type) with any efficiency whatsoever.
Yeah I was wondering that. Some of the benchmarked laptop
Are you daft? (Score:2)
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16GB for HOW MUCH?! $2,499?!!!? Wait... maybe it has a 10K display. That would account for it.