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A coworker claims that his personal MacBook Air m1 without encryption is much faster to update MacOs than his work MacBook Pro m2 with encryption.
by speedgoose 3y ago
A coworker claims that his personal MacBook Air m1 without encryption is much faster to update MacOs than his work MacBook Pro m2 with encryption.
- acdha 3y agoI’d want to see real benchmarks to make sure that’s not due to a confound (e.g. updates used to be slowed by things like Homebrew having huge numbers of files in the /usr/local directory which were inefficiently moved & restored by the installer). Every time I’ve tested it the difference has been negligible.
- runjake 3y agoYour coworker is "full of it" for the following reasons: - Storage is always encrypted on Apple Silicon Macs.[1] - You can enable FileVault, but all FileVault does on Apple Silicon is add the user's password as an additional key[2]. There is not an additional performance hit with FileVault. 1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-overview-secf6276da8a/web https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-ove... 2. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/volume-encryption-with-filevault-sec4c6dc1b6e/web https://support.apple.com/guide/security/volume-encryption-w...
- mickelsen 3y agoWow! So this explains why setting it up later down the road is almost instant on Macs with T2 or M1/M2? Because IIRC with <2016 macs there was a long wait if you already have been using that disk for a while.
- speedgoose 3y agoThanks, that's good to know.