Original Apple SSD’s for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air are very expensive, especially compared to the price of standard NVMe SSD’s designed for Windows PC’s. macOS versions from Mojave and later support NVMe drives as boot device in MacBook Pro models released from late 2013 to 2015 and MacBook Air models from 2013 to 2017. MacBook Air SSD: MacBook Air hard drive: CPU: 1.80GHz Core 2 Duo: 1.60GHz Core 2 Duo : Memory: 2GB: 2GB: given the slight advantages that the SSD model has over the HDD in clock speed. Page: 1 See our ethics statement. Apple’s new 13-inch MacBook Pro M2 base model appears to have slower SSD speeds than its M1 predecessor. MacRumors reports that YouTubers Max Tech and Created Tech have MacBook Air MacBook Pro 14 & 16" macOS Sonoma SSD Speed Comparison - Please Contribute! Sep 9, 2013 1,481 2,157 Leicestershire, UK. These activities can slow down your system. Open System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver, click the Desktop tab and uncheck the Change picture option. Then, click the Screen Saver tab, click the drop-down menu next to Start after, and select Never. published 12 April 2013. We take our lab's MacBook Air, yank out its stock Toshiba-sourced SSD, drop in OWC's 480 GB Auro Pro 6G, and chart the performance of both drives. but slower than the Timetec 512GB MAC SSD NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 3D NAND TLC Read Up to 2,000MB/s Compatible with Apple MacBook Air (2013-2015, 2017 A55 M.2 SSD (SLC Cache for Speed Boost HiDZBxl.