Amaya Toman Also this week, the reverberations of the recent introduction of the new MacBook Air with the M3 chip are still resonating. The great news is undoubtedly that these new light laptops from the workshop of the Cupertino company finally have a faster SSD. On the other hand, owners of some iPhones, for whom the transition to iOS 17.4 significantly worsened battery life, unfortunately did not receive good news.
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iOS 17.4 and the deterioration of the battery life of newer iPhones
The latest version of the operating system iOS 17.4, according to available reports, degrades the endurance of some newer iPhone models. Users on social networks and discussion forums reported that the battery life of their Apple smartphones dropped significantly after upgrading to iOS 17.4 - for example, one user reported a 40% battery drop within two minutes, while another confided that writing two posts on social network X drained 13% of its battery. According to YouTube channel iAppleBytes, iPhone 13 and newer models saw a drop, while iPhone SE 2020, iPhone XR, or even iPhone 12 even improved.
Significantly faster SSD of the MacBook Air M3
Last week, Apple released a new MacBook Air M3 with higher performance, Wi-Fi 6E and support for two external displays. It turned out that Apple also solved another problem that plagued the base model of the previous generation MacBook Air - the speed of SSD storage. The entry-level M2 MacBook Air model with 256GB of storage offered slower SSD speeds than higher-end configurations. This was due to the base model using a single 256GB storage chip instead of two 128GB storage chips. This was a regression from the base MacBook Air M1, which used two 128GB storage chips. Gregory McFadden tweeted this week that the entry-level 13″ MacBook Air M3 offers faster SSD speeds than the MacBook Air M2.
Well this is unexpected – it appears the 256GB base model M3 Air has a faster SSD drive compared to the controversial M2 Air. pic.twitter.com/mTqwxcbtSE
— GregsGadgets (@GregoryMcFadden) March 8, 2024
At the same time, a recent teardown of the latest MacBook Air M3 showed that Apple is now using two 128GB chips instead of a single 256GB module in the base model. The two 128GB NAND chips of the MacBook Air M3 can thus process tasks in parallel, which significantly increases the speed of data transfer.
