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The new 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air soars with the powerful M3 chip, featuring a super-portable design, power-efficient performance, and all-day battery life.

Apple’s base model 13-inch M3 MacBook Air with 256GB of storage is equipped with two 128GB flash storage chips instead of one, slower 256GB flash storage chip as in the previous generation 13-inch M2 MacBook Air.

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors:
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This change results in significantly faster SSD speeds compared to the equivalent MacBook Air with the M2 chip, which has a single 256GB storage chip, as the SSD can read and write from the two chips simultaneously.

YouTube channel Max Tech ran Blackmagic’s Disk Speed Test tool with a 5GB file size test on both the M2 and M3 models of the 13-inch MacBook Air with 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM, and they found the SSD in the M3 model achieved up to 33% faster write speeds and up to 82% faster read speeds compared to the SSD in the M2 model.

Apple’s decision to switch to a single 256GB chip for the base model M2 MacBook Air was controversial, even though the slower SSD speeds are unlikely to be noticed by the average user working on common day-to-day tasks. Fortunately, the base model M3 MacBook Air’s SSD speeds are now roughly equivalent to the base model M1 MacBook Air again…

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MacDailyNews Take: Issue fixed. Still, if you have the cash, upgrade to at least 512GB internal storage as 256GB is too little for most users.
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