Ondrej Holzman Apple Tuesday introduced a new version of its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display, which received a Force Touch trackpad and also, according to the manufacturer, faster flash storage. The first tests confirmed that the SSD is indeed much faster in the new MacBook Pros.
Apple claims that the new flash storage on the PCIe bus is 2,5 times faster than the previous generation, with a throughput of up to 2 GB/s. French magazine MacGeneration new MacBook Pro immediately tested and confirmed Apple's claim.
The entry-level 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD performed excellently in the QuickBench 4.0 test with a read speed of 2GB/s and a write speed of 1,25GB/s.
The MacBook Air also received a twice-faster SSD some time ago against previous models, but the latest 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro is still much further away. The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are currently comparable in terms of flash storage speed.
On the larger Retina MacBook Pro, it took 8,76 seconds to transfer an 14GB file to the computer, compared to 32 seconds on last year's machine. For smaller files, read/write speeds exceed one gigabyte per second, and overall, the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro has the fastest storage of any Apple laptop.
As with its latest hardware innovations, Apple has bet on SSDs from Samsung, but MacGeneration notes that the faster NVM Express SSD protocol is not used in the 15-inch version, unlike the 13-inch version, so we can expect further storage acceleration in the future.
Faster reading and writing of files is a rather pleasant novelty in the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, which was otherwise a slight disappointment. It was expected that Apple would wait for Intel to prepare the latest Broadwell processor with the update of its biggest laptop, but it didn't make it, so Apple had to stick with last year's Haswells.
It seems to me that after a certain speed it is more of a marketing trick. Rather than these synthetic tests, I would be interested in the real benefit in real work.
You have it in the article. In real work, it will take you only 8 seconds to transfer a file of more than 14GB instead of the previous 32. Any saving will be approximately 2x faster. If those speeds are real, it at least somewhat justifies the high price of the SSD drive.
But that's what I'm talking about. How often do you copy 8GB in real work?
Greetings.. to be honest, I copy a lot of data in practice and daily thanks to my profession (special audio data), approx. 30-50 GB :) regardless of size. I've been interested in ssd speed ever since the first ssds were launched on the market... apple offers the best SSD without competition (please use another connection) and pay panbuh for it :). So just faster and faster... yes, I would really welcome a 2TB disk and not just 1TB :)
Sure, I understand that, but those are special cases.
I am alluding to the fact that in articles and press releases it is presented as a suer advantage for everyone.
It's similar to the hunt for megapixels in cameras, it's important for a few special cases, most people won't use it, but resolution is still considered one of the most important parameters :-)
Well, I agree.. anyway, it's better to increase such wonderful speeds and the size of ssd as well, than just to step on the spot, isn't it? :). All in all, Apple has become a really suitable platform for me from HW to SW... and I'm a developer. And with all my work, I (not only me) need to work and not wait for the data to be loaded... so now I have a 1TB disk in a MBP 15-inch from last year, and I definitely already know that I will go to a new one again when it has twice the read and write value. .. for me it's money saved :) and nerves. Have a nice day.
There are a lot of important parameters and it is not considered that the more mpix the more adidas.
For me, it is important that the phone can take a relatively high-quality photo in automatic mode quickly and without blur.
Most Samsungs can't do that.
Sony, Apple, and some Chinese manufacturers can do it perfectly.
I have now bought a mobile with a 20Mpix sensor and it is a huge difference in detail. The chip is Sony, the cover is sapphire. It takes better pictures than the iPhone6. I have a better feeling about taking pictures with the iPhone 6 Plus, this may be due to the optical stabilization, but the multi-pixel sensor cannot catch up with the details.
If there is something missing from current iPhones and iPads, it is mainly ram memory and a photo sensor with a higher resolution.
Otherwise, of course, I agree with the opinion that better quality photos can be obtained from an 13mpix iPhone than 8mpix in a noname compact with china, which probably also has a plastic lens.
It is a purchase for the future. Faster drives are needed for programs that process large amounts of data. And the programs process more and more data every year. So it's an advantage for everyone, even if not today, in 4 years everyone will appreciate it. Another long-term strategy of Apple is that storage will sooner or later replace RAM. Of course, we are not there today, but from the point of view of ten years, the trend is definitely there. So why not prepare for it today?