Here at Macworld, we tend to recommend that customers not buy the entry-level configuration of any Mac. It generally doesn’t have enough storage for most people, even people who rely heavily on iCloud or other cloud storage will likely run into space constraints down the line.
But there’s another reason why) of the machine show that the 256GB SSD is up to 50 percent slower than the 256GB SSD in the M1 model it replaces.