Apple released a second generation macbook air in october 2010, with a redesigned tapered chassis, standard solidstate storage, and added a smaller 11. Replacing the pciebased flash drive in your macbook air is as simple as removing a few screws. It took me a total of about 20 minutes to upgrade my mid2012 macbook air with a 120gb ssd to this 480gb ssd. Unless you have a new, 2018 macbook air, in which case apple permanently soldered the storage. You need the rest of the options to get it, though. There are only baseline ssd options for the macbook, but there are two of them. When i see the ifixit website, it shouldnt be too difficult. Use this guide to upgrade or replace the solidstate drive in a macbook air early 2014. This macbook air uses a proprietary storage drive connector, and is therefore not compatible with common m. Mar 19, 2020 use this information to find out which macbook air you have, and where it fits in the history of macbook air.
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