Apple's new MacBook Air caused a lot of talk during its presentation at the last WWDC conference. Indeed, with its M2 chip the device has unprecedented power for such a model from the Apple brand. But in addition to this chip, Apple has worked a lot on the design of its new MacBook Air. Completely revised, the latter has regained all its meaning: light, portable, but powerful.
But while everyone had already studied the design and chip of the device, the disassembly of the MacBook Air M2 had never been done before. It was the Max Tech YouTube channel that took care of it first. In the recently published video, the YouTuber offers a complete and rigorous teardown of the device.
Storage as the only difference?
If overall the design of the MacBook Air M2 resembles that of other MacBook Airs in a few details, one detail caught the attention of Max Tech. In fact, the model with a storage capacity of 256 GB only has one NAND piece. As usual, Apple has always placed 2 chips of this type in its devices.
This problem had already been noticed on the MacBook Pro M2, also presented during the opening of WWDC. The lack of a second storage chip results in slower SSD speeds. According to initial tests, read and write speeds should be 30-50%.
A single SSD chip for the MacBook Air M2
On this new MacBook Air, as on other devices from the Apple brand, the storage chip is soldered to the motherboard, which makes it impossible or almost impossible to upgrade these devices, such as by adding a second NAND chip .
For the moment, Apple has not given any explanation regarding this choice of components. Some dissatisfied users tried to contact the Cupertino company's after-sales service to ask for answers without obtaining more information from Apple.
