The SSD In The New MacBook Air Is 217% Faster Than Before
The new MacBook Air not only has up to 512GB of flash storage, it’s also a whole lot faster than before.
The MacBook Air has never been a slouch in terms of performance, but with the 2012 model, SSD performance is scoring a whopping 217% higher than ever before.
In tests run by OSXDaily, read speeds reached a maximum of 461MB/s, and write speeds hit 364MB/s, a dramatic increase over the 2011 model, which scored just a modest 145MB/s read speed and a 152MB/s write speed.
