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2011 Mba Owners, share your ssd model and display model here
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Sold my old MacBook through the Best Buy trade in program and got another MacBook Air to compare to my Samsung Display/Toshiba SSD. Wouldn't you know it - got the inverse - LG Display/Samsung SSD.
Honestly - couldn't tell the different in vertical viewing angles between the two - which is all I was really concerned about based on reading everyone's comments. In fact, I think the Samsung display looks ::marginally:: more yellow - and I have a preference for cool displays. It's probably slightly brighter at full scale, but once again, I'll take contrast and coolness over brightness. I am super anal retentive about these sorts of things (as you can tell - I went about the ridiculous task of buying two MacBook Airs).
Honestly - I really would have been fine with either one! I am going with the Samsung SSD and LG Display, if only because the Samsung has been proven to be better in sequential reads/writes - which actually matter to me, as I am going to be using this machine as a secondary editing dock, and will likely be transferring 40-60GB at a time to my mothership iMac.
:-D
I'll chalk this up to us macheads being detail oriented and having unfair expectations of what is at the end, only a personal electronics company that doesn't actually make any of their machines.
LOL u just convince me
13" LG/SM128
Glad I could save you the pain of doing what I just did! I honestly also feel like if I'd gotten another Toshiba SSD, I would have been fine. If the numbers being reported are accurate (between Anandtech, Engadget, and the other unsourced whispers), we're talking about at most a 15% difference. Yes, it's pretty big, but 15% on 200MB/s. That's so fast already, I buy that you might not notice the difference. It's not like 35mph vs. 45mph. It's more like 105mph vs. 115mph. At that point, you're already breaking the law...
Just got MBA with 256GB SSD. Didn't even bother about Samsung/Toshiba or Samsung/LG "problem" before I tried to calibrate my new laptop's screen. It was a bit yellowish at the start, but the calibration got it turn to blue; the real problem was the very grayish color of the black, especially in the bottom side of the screen, and darkened blurred bar on the bottom when displaying white... and very shallow colors, washed out comparing to my 2009 MBA and 27" LED Cinema Display. The text is really not readable in some cases - with Lion switching to shades of grey in the interface instead of white/blue. I thought I could get used to it - but looking at my old MBAs screen after this makes a world of difference.
My display turned to be LG one; my display on the old MBA was AU Optronics.
The difference is so strong I decided to sell the new MBA - shame that i bought it in Hong Kong, but now i'm home in Moscow - so no way to return it to the store. Guess I'll have to sell it to some friends - many people are really too ignorant to notice the difference; but in my case I do some design work and I simply can't work knowing that the colors I'm looking at are all wrong.
Its my third Air - my first one was the very first 2008, then I bought the second one (128G SSD one) in spring'2010, and this was the planned upgrade... So sad a story it is
My display turned to be LG one; my display on the old MBA was AU Optronics.
The difference is so strong I decided to sell the new MBA - shame that i bought it in Hong Kong, but now i'm home in Moscow - so no way to return it to the store. Guess I'll have to sell it to some friends - many people are really too ignorant to notice the difference; but in my case I do some design work and I simply can't work knowing that the colors I'm looking at are all wrong.
Its my third Air - my first one was the very first 2008, then I bought the second one (128G SSD one) in spring'2010, and this was the planned upgrade... So sad a story it is
Just got MBA with 256GB SSD. Didn't even bother about Samsung/Toshiba or Samsung/LG "problem" before I tried to calibrate my new laptop's screen. It was a bit yellowish at the start, but the calibration got it turn to blue; the real problem was the very grayish color of the black, especially in the bottom side of the screen, and darkened blurred bar on the bottom when displaying white... and very shallow colors, washed out comparing to my 2009 MBA and 27" LED Cinema Display. The text is really not readable in some cases - with Lion switching to shades of grey in the interface instead of white/blue. I thought I could get used to it - but looking at my old MBAs screen after this makes a world of difference.
Its my third Air - my first one was the very first 2008, then I bought the second one (128G SSD one) in spring'2010, and this was the planned upgrade... So sad a story it is
That's too bad. The Pros are a better choice for photo editing, since they have better color gamut than the Airs and always have been. Perhaps the rumored 15" thin notebook (we don't know if it will be called a Pro or an Air at this point) will be a better choice.
Double Samsung, but no, it really shouldn't be a big concern. The Samsung display has slightly better viewing angles, and the Samsung SSD is slightly faster, but the differences aren't noticeable to most people.
Replaced my i5 11.6 Air with the i7, 256 11.6 (needed the bigger hard drive)
On the "old" i5 I had Samsung SSD & LG Panel
on the "new" i7 I have Toshiba SSD and LG Panel.
I notice no difference in the display quality (since its the same I suppose -- It looks fantastic to me, not issues reading and the colors do not seem washed out. Of course, I did a calibration so that might be why.
The SSD does benchmark a bit slower, but I do not notice it in everyday use. In fact, it seems snappier than the i5 with Samsung. Of course, the CPU is faster so that may be why.
On the "old" i5 I had Samsung SSD & LG Panel
on the "new" i7 I have Toshiba SSD and LG Panel.
I notice no difference in the display quality (since its the same I suppose
-- It looks fantastic to me, not issues reading and the colors do not seem washed out. Of course, I did a calibration so that might be why.The SSD does benchmark a bit slower, but I do not notice it in everyday use. In fact, it seems snappier than the i5 with Samsung. Of course, the CPU is faster so that may be why.
German MBA's
Hi out there in the Mac World ;-)
We bought 2 Air's 11+13 . Ordered July 20.
Location Germany. Delivered from Syngeon Netherlands 13" and Prague 11"
When we've read the first rumors about the different SSD's we changed the MBA's both. But got again (old) Toshiba SSD's …. :-(
Support was first wondering about the SSD problem , but then switched to :
we can't sort this different SSD.
One difference is also next to the Speed problem.
Samsung support's the "Trim" command, which i think is important for the SSD life cycle!
Also the SGC (Self Garbage Collection) is a thing that Samsung SSD Support
( 470 Series 2,5 inch Drives )
Does anybody know about the Toshiba SSD's support these things?
MBA 11, i5, 4GB RAM, 128SSD TS 128C
LTH Display (don't know the exact number, it isn't here any more)
MBA 13, i5 ,128 Gig
APPLE SSD TS128C
LTH133BT01A03 Color LCD
Hi out there in the Mac World ;-)
We bought 2 Air's 11+13 . Ordered July 20.
Location Germany. Delivered from Syngeon Netherlands 13" and Prague 11"
When we've read the first rumors about the different SSD's we changed the MBA's both. But got again (old) Toshiba SSD's …. :-(
Support was first wondering about the SSD problem , but then switched to :
we can't sort this different SSD.
One difference is also next to the Speed problem.
Samsung support's the "Trim" command, which i think is important for the SSD life cycle!
Also the SGC (Self Garbage Collection) is a thing that Samsung SSD Support
( 470 Series 2,5 inch Drives )
Does anybody know about the Toshiba SSD's support these things?
MBA 11, i5, 4GB RAM, 128SSD TS 128C
LTH Display (don't know the exact number, it isn't here any more)
MBA 13, i5 ,128 Gig
APPLE SSD TS128C
LTH133BT01A03 Color LCD
the ssd are easy to tell which make is in there, how about the display can anyone put a list together to differentiate which model is which maker?
how do I know if my screen is washed out or not? can i only tell if next to a macbook pro?
how do I know if my screen is washed out or not? can i only tell if next to a macbook pro?
If the Toshiba SSD is identical to the one used in Kingston V+, the Toshiba SSD garbage collection is so strong that it doesn't need TRIM at all. The Garbage Collection in the Kingston working almost realtime. On the other hand, the Samsung 470 is slacking pretty horribly, without TRIM support the SSD suffer from slow write speed after "torture" test.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/20087/5
However, with TRIM enabled since 10.6.8, TRIM and Garbage Collection shouldn't be an issue. However, Samsung SSD is still a faster drive when it comes to large queue of random reads. Toshiba however is better on single queue random read.
After all, if you read through the review in the link above, you'll see the Samsung 470 performance is more or less the same as the Kingston V+. You most probably won't need the multiple random reads performances, and certainly not an issue for daily tasks.
Hello everybody. During the last 5 weeks I ordered 2 MBA in the 13" model with the basic conditions. Both came with the slower Toshiba SSD to me. Produced 2011/07/15 and 11/07/29. So ... the latest MBA received me 8 days later after it has been produced. I guess that there are currently no Samsung SSD avialiable for Apple.
On the other hand you need to win the displaylottery got get the better panel from Samsung! I had both displays but the Samsung had a red pixel :-(
I canceled my purchase. The probability to get a Samsung display and ram is too low at the moment. So I decided to wait for 30 days
PS: It´s true that the Toshiba has no TRIM support.
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I tested the MBA with the DiskSpeedTest and a MB Pro Early 2011 C2D 13" with an OCZ Vertex II SSD. The II is faster than the MBA with Toshiba. But the Samsung SSD has better rates than the Vertex II !
It´s annoying that a MBP from early 2011 can be faster than your new MBA
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