I was looking to find a new M2 MBA 15in (16/256) when I found this on Amazon. What was surprising was that with AppleCare+ (3 years) added it was only $1438.99 compared to $1499 without it. It states also that it is shipped and sold through Amazon.com. Is there any reason for me to worry or does this seem legit?
No; theyve had 16, 512 for that price recently
But prolly without apple care+.
But 256gb speed is like hdd
lol no
Lol yes, airs with 256gb has slower disks than 512gb versions
M2 MBA gets over 1500 MB/s read/write on 256GB
A 7200rpm HDD is always under 200 MB/s
So no, more than 7x faster is not comparable
Sources:
https://www.theverge.com/23220299/apple-macbook-air-m2-slow-ssd-read-write-speeds-testing-benchmark
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/what-is-a-good-or-normal-read-write-speed-for-a-hdd.2822841/
Nothing like HDD though.
It's not 500Gb/s HDD
but it ain't 3000Gb/s either. Those SSDs are found only on 512GB models and up.
The 256GB/1500 Gb/s transfer speeds will be a device short lived if use it for anything other than surfing, productivity, checking emails.