OWC 240 Go SSD for Macbook Air
Thought I would share my experience.
I have a Macbook Air 11" with 64 Go. Bought it a few years ago and I am very happy with it, however I made the mistake to go for 64 Go.
In fact I reckon even 128 Go (max available) would be too small but anyway, I enjoyed the laptop, filled it and... Ran out of space of course.
So I recently went to OWC's 240 Go SSD upgrade.
I am not USA based and picked Fedex for delivery. Worked fine
I then followed the steps found here.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/05/review-supersize-your-macbook-air-ssd-with-owcs-aura-pro-express/
Like they said I went for Carbon Copy Cloner ( 30 days free trials) and cloned my computer. About 50 Go to copy which took about 30 minutes maybe a little more.
Then I carried on with the steps all the way. Very straight forward and quick apart from the cloning back to your newly upgraded computer which took about an hour this time.
Does it work ? It sure does.
Would I do it again ? Oh yes.
Would I recommend it ? Yep definitely.
So now I am just wondering why Apple does not have a Macbook Air with 240 or 480 Go option. Because the way I see it, next time I buy a Mac (But how often to do need to replace one
? ), I ll check what OWC has in stores in terms of upgrade for the cheapest version of the Mac I am interested in.
Then I ll buy the Mac and straight away upgrade it to the max specs available not with Apple but with OWC, which, I reckon would be amazingly more powerful than what Apple has on offer. And yet, remain a true Apple product with all the things we like about it (and the stuff we don't too
).
Sure it will make my Mac more expensive but not by that much.
Checking the price today of an 11" 64Go, I see it at 999 USD. Add 300 USD for 240 Go and you have a 1300 USD Macbook Air that doesn't even exist in store. Which has also a SSD twice a large as the biggest 11" for sale at the moment and costs 1100 USD.
Those of you who are not to techy, I would say the procedure is quite easy. Get the right screw drivers and if you are worried about the anti static precautions, use a wooden table for example. Do not wear wool jumpers and take your time. You ll be amazed how easy it is ( I was ).
Anyway, take care all.