Presumably 3rd party SSD manufacturers (ahem, SandForce partners I’m looking at you) could produce drop in replacements for the MacBook Air SSD. The SSD isn’t in an industry standard form factor, although the connector appears to be either micro or mini SATA. The 11-inch MacBook Air SSD, courtesy of iFixit iFixit already confirmed Toshiba is in the new MacBook Air with its teardown: Again, nothing can trump Apple's tight integration between hardware and software.Īpple likes to work with two different controller manufacturers for SSDs: Samsung and Toshiba. The new Airs both go to sleep and wake up from sleep quicker than any of the other Macs, including my upgraded 15-inch Core i7 MacBook Pro. I’d be willing to bet the SSD in the MacBook Air has tight integration with OS X to guarantee quicker than normal boot times.Ĭlearly the new Air isn't instant on from a boot standpoint, but it's pretty much there from a recover-from-sleep standpoint. Apple does customize the firmware on its SSDs. You'll notice that even the SF-1200 SSD in my 15-inch MacBook Pro takes longer to boot than these new Airs. It’s even a shorter boot than my MacBook Pro with a SandForce SF-1200 based SSD in it: System Performance Comparison
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That time is significantly reduced compared to the old MacBook Air and any other Mac with a conventional hard drive. From a completely powered off state the MacBook Air still takes time to boot.
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The inclusion of instructionsto do so in the manual is a pretty strong hint that it's OK.Apple advertises the new MacBook Air as being instant on as a result of the internal SSD. And the limitation of warranty for performing an operation like that might be illegal depending on the laws of where you live anyway.īottom line is I would (and do) do it, and Apple do treat such altered machines as covered. To mean that you can't do it - but that could mean you only have a problem if you cause damage while doing it. Repair, or maintenance of non-Covered Equipment (including accessories, attachments, or other devices such as external modems) or electrical service external to the Covered Equipment ī Damage due to accident, abuse, neglect, misuse (including faulty installation, repair, or maintenance by anyone other than Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider), Then I interpreted The Plan does not cover:Ī Installation, removal, or disposal of the Covered Equipment, or installation, removal, I had started by saying that the AppleCare plan specifically allows you to change the hard drive as a user-serviceable part. The new one from OWC bears a different label so I would say direct from OWC is the way to go, not from a reseller who may have older stock.Ĭurrent Intel drives are highly regarded but I have not used one personally. The only one that I have found good so far (fingers crossed) is the OWC Extreme 6G series, and even then only after getting a bad one first and having to exchange. In my office we have had bad Kingston, OCZ and other brands. Many SSDs will work at first and fail quickly. I have had a horrible experience with "iRam" drives - installed fully on two of them, after sleep both came up completely blank! But this is not an isolated experience. Having said that, I don't think you can buy an Apple OEM drive anyway. In fact I was surprised to find that it is not specifically allowed by AppleCare terms (linked below) as I had heard it was for Unibody models onwards. Moshe, If you can find one instance of AppleCare being refused for a simple HD swap I'll be amazed.
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