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?
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/