The MacBook Air is not really thought of as being expandable or upgradeable, but it turns out that with a little effort and patience, you can replace the SSD on the MacBook Air yourself. Changing the ...

Apple launched updated MacBook Air models in October of 2010, featuring new, compact, and (originally) proprietary form-factor solid state drives (SSDs). The SSDs have so far only been available to ...

I blame the Retina MacBook Pro. Apple sent a unit for me to review for my Seattle Times column, and I was impressed (see “Retina MacBook Pro: a treat for the eyes, maybe not for the wallet”). Yes, the ...

When I first wrote about using solid state drives (SSDs) to radically improve the performance of older Macs, high-capacity SSDs were just beginning to become affordable. Replacing a Mac’s 500GB or 1TB ...

Apple on Friday released MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1 for certain MacBook Air notebooks to address an issue that may result in data loss in "a small percentage" of 64GB and 128GB disk ...

PhotoFast has complied with an Apple request that it stop making replacement SSD modules for its newest MacBook Air models based on fast SandForce controllers.

There are two things that disturb me about the impending launch of the third-generation MacBook Air. The first is that it could ship without a backlit keyboard (a deal breaker for me), the second is a ...

OWC has announced a new high-performance solid-state drive for older 13-inch MacBook Pro models lacking the Touch Bar, delivering capacity up to 16 times greater and speeds up to 2,720 megabytes per ...

We're revisiting this topic with a twist, since using 128GB in 2021 is practically impossible, in this video I show you how to upgrade your MacBook pro 2017 with a massive 1TB SSD upgrade. It's faster ...