Macbook Air 2014 refresh: slow SSD?

Question

MacWorld reports that SSD speeds are very much slower with the refreshed Macbook Air. I was going online to order one just now but I saw this article:
http://www.macworld.com/article/2150841/lab-tested-new-2014-macbook-air-benchmar ks.html
Can someone at Apple comment? Is it fixable? This is a dealbreaker for me, so I'm holding off on purchase (even though I really need an Air ASAP) until I get more info on a solution. Would appreciate a response. I'll just get a used 2013 model unless there's a fix in the works. Thanks!

Answer 1

Andy-J-D wrote:
I would be surprised if you got a direct answer, though.
be surprised then.
http://blog.macsales.com/19008-perfo...s-are-the-same
In the meantime, we have noticed a vast difference in write speeds between the two SSD offerings that we’ve received so far. The 512GB Samsung SSD found in our 13-inch model offers roughly a 400MB/s increase in write speeds over the 128GB SanDisk/Marvell SSD as our 11-inch model was configured. the write SPEED performance is mainly due to NAND densities and not brand performance in these cases, but we’ll know more once we can run the same tests on a few more models.
SSD densities on 256 and 512 are higher, and therefore faster than 128GB SSD
however the real truth is:
just slower on random writes
Ultimately it all levels out,  so the figures are spurious
However the 802AC wifi is about 15% faster on the new 2014 AIR