Macbook Air 128gb, sd cards and battery drain

[okusai3000]

Hello everyone,

I am about to buy a Macbook Air and as in Europe is like 300 extra euros what it cost a 256gb model, I'm seriously thinking about the idea of mac + sd.

I have read a lot of battery issues, but I have also read that ejecting the card from the OS it will help to avoid this problem.

I just would like to know if someone is using this, and if it's doable, or just a big problem.

Thanks a lot

 

[ftaok]

I have 13" MBA - i7 and I'm using the SD card slot for a 200GB card. I can't honestly say that battery life is affected. If it is it's very unnoticeable for me.

I did have the same worry that you have regarding battery drain, so I purchased the app Mountain. It makes mounting and unmounting the SD card very easy. You can set it up to auto-unmount, but I like to do everything manually.

 

[Ca_lvn]

I just bought the MBA 128g and I'm using two 256g micro sd cards with adaptor and it works fine haven't noticed any extra battery drain , im new to mac so unmounting/formatting was challenging until I located disk utilities on the system then its a breeze also using one SD card for back up

 

[Rok73]

I'd recommend to put the extra buck in it and buy the 256 GB model. The internal SSD is superfast and if you're going to keep that thing for 3-5 years it's really worth it imo.

Where are you located btw? In my country the difference between 128 & 256 GB is 250.00 € directly at Apple. But there are often 3rd party sellers where you can get a good deal. I'd watch out for something like that.

I bought my early 2015 256 GB model with 8 GB RAM for 1225.00 € compared to the price of 1349.00 € at Apple.