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2011 Mba Owners, share your ssd model and display model here

luked14 said:
I went to the Apple store in Greenville, SC today and picked up the 13" i5 128 MBA. I got a really helpful employee who knew about the SSD issue, and said he was getting an 11" soon and was going to make sure he got a Samsung with his. He seemed willing to go through as many MBAs as necessary for me. The first one he got out had the Toshiba, and while he went to the back to get another, I checked all the floor model MBAs and interestingly every 11" but 1 had a Toshiba and every 13" had a Samsung. He told me that he went to the very back of the stock (where the newest would be) and picked out the last one. Sure enough, it had a Samsung! I didn't care too much about the display but I checked it when I got home and it's the LG. Hopefully all the newer stock in Apple stores are Samsung SSDs.
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As far as I know, the only way to tell which SSD is installed is to open the box, boot the machine and check the system information. Did the employee open all of those boxes for you, or did he have some other way of identifying the SSD? Checking serial numbers or some such? I'm just curious because every post that I've read here says that the only way to know is to open the box, and I'd be amazed if an employee did that.
 
luked14 said:
I went to the Apple store in Greenville, SC today and ... got a really helpful employee who knew about the SSD issue, and said he was getting an 11" soon and was going to make sure he got a Samsung with his. ..
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If he was an Apple employee, then he should have known better than to feed this SSD hysteria...

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Just picked up a 13 i7 from the store Samsung all the way around BABY YEAH!!! Is it sad that its the first thing i did after turning it on? lol

Im coming from a 13 pro and I love the screen but can already notice the smaller text, I'm sure ill get use to it
 
BigB82 said:
Just picked up a 13 i7 from the store Samsung all the way around BABY YEAH!!! Is it sad that its the first thing i did after turning it on? lol

Im coming from a 13 pro and I love the screen but can already notice the smaller text, I'm sure ill get use to it
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I did the same thing. The very first thing I did after turning it on was to check the SSD and screen.

Double Samsung here too on my 13/256.

It might be my imagination but it seems that there are far more Samsung drives beiing reported on new purchases lately.
 
flowsy said:
Open "Launchpad" and find the "Utilities"-folder. In there you will find the terminal.
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Got my MBA 13" 1,8/4GB/256 today.

Samsung SSD and the LG-Panel. Fine with me. :)
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Thanks very much!

I got:

LP133WP1-TJA3

I have no idea what that means...but there you go. One for the statistic..
 
Bought an interim 13" Macbook Air i5 128GB to hold me over on my Amazon order (13" i5/256 GB Model). I have both a Samsung SSD and Panel, purchased from best buy 8/23/2011
 
Just arrived from Amazon (20% off coupon deal)

13" i5/4/128

- Apple SSD SM128C
- LP133WP1-TJA3

Samsung / LG.
 
I just bought a 13" 1.7ghz I5 w/256 SSD:

Got Samsung SSD
Got Samsung Display

I'm selling a 11" Air 4gb/128 SSD which came with

Samsung SSD
Toshiba LCD

BTW, when comparing the two LCDs side by side I cannot tell the difference.
 
I guess my MBA sucks

13/4/128

LP133WP1-TJA3 -> LG
TS128C -> TOSHIBA

Worst of the bunch...wow

And how are you guys opening up your units and then returning it to the Apple Store? What do you say to the employees when they ask you whey you're returning? They just hand you a brand new unit?
 
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13/128. Got it today from Amazon.

LG screen, Sammy ssd. Looks great, I haven't found any flaws yet.
 
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