Macbook Air Info

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• Maxatoria Posts: 17,980

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  10/05/13 - 01:02 #2

  From what i remember from the 1st airs the SSD is not a standard drive but just a long strip with chips and a connector so is absolutely not just order a drive from somewhere and pop open 2 screws and replace and it does seem like its a strip down and rebuild job and if you aint happy to be messing with such stuff i'd buy it ready done as one slip with a screwdriver and you'll ruin the casing and cause lights to flash in culpertino and a visit from the turtle neck guys in silver cars late one night

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• jonner101 Posts: 3,410

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  10/05/13 - 01:03 #3

  I personally think the Macbook pro ( non retina ) 13 inch is a much better option. It's still very portable and the memory and hdd can be easily upgraded and uses a standard 2/5 inch format drive.
  
  You can also easily add a kit to make convert the optical drive to an extra HDD as well if you don't need it.

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• rottweiler Posts: 2,569

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  11/05/13 - 07:58 #4

  Yea look at this great price too
  
  http://store.apple.com/uk/product/FD101B/A/refurbished-macbook-pro-25ghz-dual-core-intel-i5

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• cnbcwatcher Posts: 56,681

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  11/05/13 - 19:26 #5

  Maxatoria wrote: »

  From what i remember from the 1st airs the SSD is not a standard drive but just a long strip with chips and a connector so is absolutely not just order a drive from somewhere and pop open 2 screws and replace and it does seem like its a strip down and rebuild job and if you aint happy to be messing with such stuff i'd buy it ready done as one slip with a screwdriver and you'll ruin the casing and cause lights to flash in culpertino and a visit from the turtle neck guys in silver cars late one night

  
  I don't think anyone would want to be visited by the men in black turtlenecks :eek: What would they do - make you use Windows 8 for the rest of your life or lock you in an Apple Store until they make you into a fully converted Cult of Mac member? :eek::D

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