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New Macbook Pro 14" and 16" WiFi6 Spec?
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No one use it ? Among the MacBooks u mean? Because as i told ya ,my (kinda cheap) laptop had wifi ax 3*3 ,and i was reaching over the 1300mbps
Ye ik that it's same as old macs ,still disappointing isn't it ?
Besides the intel's are 3*3 ac indeed ,which gives 1300 mbps.while the M1 macs are 2*2ax,which translates into 1200mbps ;lower
It's confirmed ?idk if I'd call that a confirmation,or did I miss something?
I'm getting 800-900 because the speeds at the router itself are 1300mbps,which is why I was able to get 1200 on my windows laptop (three times cheaper )
What baffles me is that from the inside, it looks like it has 3 antennas, where the MBA M1 only has 2:
Here is the new MacBooks:
Here is the MBA M1
Here is the chipset: https://investors.broadcom.com/news...-industrys-first-3x3-wi-fi-6-chip-mass-market
Haven't seen one brand uses it. If you see 1300 with 3x3 in a PC, that would been a AC card.
Yes, gregsapphire had confirmed that s/he has received it, the new MacBook has the same wifi as in MBA M1.
i think you may be right now,my laptop had 160mhz 2*2 then
im gonna ask him again as he had to dig deeper lol
I have a M1 Max 16”. My Access Points points are capable for 4x4 160mhz but my apple devices aren’t. Under 80mhz they have a theoretical max of 2400mpbs. I think UniFi rates them up to 3200mpbs under 160mhz.
So the bottleneck is the 2x2 80mhz WiFi chip in the devices. Unfortunately apple did not upgrade the WiFi capabilities in the new MacBook Pros.
I tried 160mhz on my access points but my new MacBook Pro didn’t like that. I can try more testing later but it really only wants to play nice with 80mhz or lower. Showing a theoretical max of 1200mpbs in the testing so far.
I’d love to be wrong and hope others may have their own testing.
crap ,thanks for answering man.btw can u test external ssds? im curious to see if they fixed the speeds compared to m1.i have a mba m1 which i use and both my samsung t5 and t7 have up to 50% slower speeds than on an intel mac...
System says 1200mbps max. Real world speed test I've done, I've gotten 600-750mpbs down. System monitor peaks at 99MB/s where as hardwired is 117MB/s (I have 1000/40 Xfinity).
Hmm good question. I don't really use one very often for my Mac. I have some connected to my gaming console. I can try and test them. If they don't reformat though.
Sorry I won't be able to test this out for the time being as I'd have to delete everything from my SDD, which I rather not redownload almost 2TB of games lol. If I find another one that doesn't need reformatting I'll test it.
I expected more dedication 😭
Yeah thank u buddy ,lemme know if u get another drive .
And thanks again for the help
Forced by Access Points to 160mhz. After a little bit of work I was able to get the Mac to connect to the AP that's 160mhz. It actually reduced speeds by 5-15% and still shows 80mhz connection and 1200 mpbs theoretical. No dice.
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Ok wiped my T7 500gb drive. Took a bit of playing around to get the speeds up and formatted to play the nicest with the Mac. Here you go!
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I think the expected for the smaller T7 is around 700-900. By there could be variances from size to size and drive to drive. Seems like a reasonable performance for the drive. Could be potentially lower, but I don't have a Intel Mac easily available to compare to. I don't feel "robbed" with regards to performance. Though I don't usually use portal hard drives on a regular basis.