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?
lol no
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.
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.