16gb ram availability (now I can run several VM's comfortably when developing) second thunderbolt port (now you can have 2 displays native and not be down a precious USB3) move the thunderbolt port beside the power connector (no more stethoscope when plugged in driving a display) Here are some "cheap" things they could have done to actually make this product an upgrade:
Best ssd for macbook pro 2013 Pc#
You've been criticizing PC makers for 2 years about the 1366x768 resolution, and here we have apple in 2013 and you say they "perhaps should have changed" "The only thing that hasn't changed, that perhaps should have is the display. Apple has been deliberately stifling user upgrades for years….That is why they have proprietary connectors…ON EVERYTHING.your readers, and your reviewer knows this. I think anand, like many other review sites invested heavily in apple stock and are now trying to stop the bleeding. "the m.2 spec wasnt far enough along to be used in this generation" Whoop dee f*ckin do…….This is apple innovation? Ultimately, You get a slower, longer lasting air for a 100 bucks less that carries over all the little annoyances from last year." "intel came out with a new CPU, samsung made a new SSD and apple slapped it together last minute in an existing design.
Users have spotted both Samsung and SanDisk based PCIe SSDs in the 2013 MacBook Airs. Do keep in mind that you’ll likely see slower results on the 128GB drive. As I pointed out in my initial look at the new MacBook Air, my review sample’s 256GB SSD had no problems delivering almost 800MB/s in peak sequential reads/writes. The move to a PCIe 2.0 x2 interface completely eliminates the host side bottleneck. Apple’s implementation uses two PCIe 2.0 lanes, for a total of 1GB/s of bandwidth in each direction (2GB/s aggregate). Each PCIe lane is good for 500MB/s, bidirectional (1GB/s total). The first generation of consumer PCIe SSDs will use PCIe 2.0, since that’s what’s abundant/inexpensive and power efficient on modern platforms. With SATA out of the way, you can now easily scale bandwidth by simply adding PCIe lanes. You can remove the middle man by sticking a native PCIe controller on the SSD controller. The SATA interface will talk to the host’s SATA interface, which inevitably sits on a PCIe bus. The SATA side has been limiting max sequential transfers for a while now at roughly 550MB/s. You can view a traditional SSD controller as having two sides: one that talks to the array of NAND flash, and one that talks to the host system’s SATA controller. Rather than wait for another rev of the SATA spec, SSD controller makers started eyeing native PCIe based controllers as an alternative. Today that number is roughly 500MB/s for 6Gbps SATA, which even value consumer SSDs are able to hit without trying too hard. The result is a setup that can quickly exceed the maximum bandwidth that SATA can offer. A good controller will be able to have reads/writes in flight to over half of those die in parallel. A 256GB SSD can be made up of 32 independent NAND die, clustered into 8 discrete packages. Not only do solid state drives offer amazingly low access latency, but you can hit amazingly high bandwidth figures by striping accesses across multiple NAND Flash die. Hard drives were rarely quick enough to need more than they were given to begin with, and only after generations of platter density increases would you see transfer rate barriers broken. In the old days, increasing maximum bandwidth supported by your PATA/SATA interface was always ceremonial at first.