I am familiar but not sure about the apple air mac. It looks so small and thin.
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
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OVERKILL
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Originally Posted By: GGorman04
I am familiar but not sure about the apple air mac. It looks so small and thin.
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
This is a Macbook air? I thought they all had SSD's?
I am familiar but not sure about the apple air mac. It looks so small and thin.
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
This is a Macbook air? I thought they all had SSD's?
Overkill you may be right! That goes to show you how much I know about apples!!
Is apple the best place to purchase?
How hard will formatting it be to the computer?
Is apple the best place to purchase?
How hard will formatting it be to the computer?
OVERKILL
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No, it doesn't need to go to Apple, but I'd confirm the (physical) size of the drive to be safe before going and buying a replacement.
JHZR2
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Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
No, it doesn't need to go to Apple, but I'd confirm the (physical) size of the drive to be safe before going and buying a replacement.
Why? When I refit my 2008 MBP from a 7200 RPM spinner to an SSD, I picked what was the best value (256GB in this case), and didnt care at all what the OE size was. I also partitioned it to run Windows.
No, it doesn't need to go to Apple, but I'd confirm the (physical) size of the drive to be safe before going and buying a replacement.
Why? When I refit my 2008 MBP from a 7200 RPM spinner to an SSD, I picked what was the best value (256GB in this case), and didnt care at all what the OE size was. I also partitioned it to run Windows.
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Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
No, it doesn't need to go to Apple, but I'd confirm the (physical) size of the drive to be safe before going and buying a replacement.
Why? When I refit my 2008 MBP from a 7200 RPM spinner to an SSD, I picked what was the best value (256GB in this case), and didnt care at all what the OE size was. I also partitioned it to run Windows.
Because it is an air. I'm not familiar enough with them to know whether they take a regular sized SSD or something that is lower profile, which is why I suggested checking
If it was a regular MBP (of which I've done many an HDD swap) I would have told him to grab whatever 2.5" drive was the best deal and be on his way
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
No, it doesn't need to go to Apple, but I'd confirm the (physical) size of the drive to be safe before going and buying a replacement.
Why? When I refit my 2008 MBP from a 7200 RPM spinner to an SSD, I picked what was the best value (256GB in this case), and didnt care at all what the OE size was. I also partitioned it to run Windows.
Because it is an air. I'm not familiar enough with them to know whether they take a regular sized SSD or something that is lower profile, which is why I suggested checking
If it was a regular MBP (of which I've done many an HDD swap) I would have told him to grab whatever 2.5" drive was the best deal and be on his way
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: GGorman04
I am familiar but not sure about the apple air mac. It looks so small and thin.
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
This is a Macbook air? I thought they all had SSD's?
Yes, today's Mac Air models have solid state hard drives, except the very first models which had small hard drives.
Originally Posted By: GGorman04
I am familiar but not sure about the apple air mac. It looks so small and thin.
Where would be the best place to purchase a hard drive for it?
This is a Macbook air? I thought they all had SSD's?
Yes, today's Mac Air models have solid state hard drives, except the very first models which had small hard drives.
Mine has 10 screws on the bottom. Then it pops off. most things are visible from there.
I had my 2.6 core duo macbook pro apart to increase the ram to 8. a 10 minute job.
Run the disk utility to fix things
one of the things that will slow it down is too many pictures and not enough ram or disk space. My wife had 12000 pictures on her mac book air, and had made slight adjustments to almost all of them. That creates a copy so you can always go back, but fills up the drive quickly.
I had my 2.6 core duo macbook pro apart to increase the ram to 8. a 10 minute job.
Run the disk utility to fix things
one of the things that will slow it down is too many pictures and not enough ram or disk space. My wife had 12000 pictures on her mac book air, and had made slight adjustments to almost all of them. That creates a copy so you can always go back, but fills up the drive quickly.
Widman,
The disk utility notes a fatal hard drive error.
Once I but the new drive to replace does it need to be formatted?
The disk utility notes a fatal hard drive error.
Once I but the new drive to replace does it need to be formatted?
Very strange... I performed the Apple Hardware test recommended in the owners manual, and it said there was no problem. Yet, the disk utility noted a fatal hard drive error.
Which is right?
Which is right?
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