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SSD Upgrade Kits Push 2010 MacBook Air Capacity to 360 GB
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Photofast had a MFi license with Apple. Does OWC have one ? No ? Then this stuff is safe. Yes ? Then order quickly before Apple applies "pressure".
Fixed that there for you. There's plenty of better options for "more storage" that are cheaper.
Air 2010 SSD
There is more to the story I think as to why 'Apple killed' the Photofast SSD... just as there is more the story of just how it is PhotoFast did 'release' of said product right when the the 2010 Air came out.
Our product is going to be shipping very shortly - and the intent is to include the necessary tools, which is the primary hold right now. Installation video guides are in edit now as well.
Our product is real... and while we do not see any reason Apple would have for taking issue with our actual engineered product, we certainly hope they don't take issue wither way.
There is more to the story I think as to why 'Apple killed' the Photofast SSD... just as there is more the story of just how it is PhotoFast did 'release' of said product right when the the 2010 Air came out.
Our product is going to be shipping very shortly - and the intent is to include the necessary tools, which is the primary hold right now. Installation video guides are in edit now as well.
Our product is real... and while we do not see any reason Apple would have for taking issue with our actual engineered product, we certainly hope they don't take issue wither way.
Crazy Rich People!
It is those early adopters (with money) that drive in the long run the price down. Someone has to pay the high price for development. Once the market gets more competitive and/or the development cost is recovered, price will come down.
I think we should thank everyone who can and will spend that kind of money on new technologies so that the price will come down.
If nobody would buy it, those products might not make it to the mass market - don't think many companies like taking the risk to put it out for dumping prices (loosing money) and not being sure to recover development cost in the long run.
thats what USB 3 or SATA is for........ OH WAIT! no Macbooks have that...
USB 3 enclosures transfer at the limit of whats inside, so its not bad for portable storage.
eSATA is the equiv of pluging the drive into your Mobo's SATA Ch, there is no speed, overhead or seek difference
You forgot the "that is not a separate drive" part. eSATA and USB3 requires that you carry the extra drive separately.
10? how about next year?
for 1TB of storage, there is no internal solution
for Macs you have a SLOW external solution
for PC's you have a FAST external solution
external 2.5" drives arent that bad to carry, just 3.5s are
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Whats up with the weird sizes?
Whats up with the weird sizes?
I have a 2008 2.4 GHz 13" Unibody MacBook and have been waiting for Apple to release a decent upgrade to the 13" line. Several weeks ago I got tired of waiting and dropped in a 240 GB OCZ Vertex 2 with the Sandforce controller and now I have no desire to upgrade to a new 13" MacBook. This baby flys and I haven't had any issues. I did have to pay $450 for it but I figure that was worth the upgrade. I keep around 80 GB free and have an external G-Drive for storage. I probably could have gotten by with 120 GB and the external storage but I had a little extra money at the time. I'm not a gamer so I can't comment on running games but the GPU works great for me. I'll have this MacBook for a while now.
remember how expensive the 10MB and later the 100MB or even later 1GB drives or, ..., where back in the days or the 500GB/1TB (the 'slow' not SSD ones) not too long ago? Price will come down and it will come down fast.
I remember Quantum (remember them ? The Quantum Fireball was one of the best hard drives around) selling a 1 GB SSD disk for 64,000$ back in the 90s.
Very very expensive. Wish they had economy models to go with those high-end ones. Right now, when it comes to how much it costs for a certain size of SSD drive, the current 11" and 13" new MBA owners are getting a pretty good price. Hopefully, the falling price of memory will hit the SSDs just as quickly as the others. I'm still holding onto the belief that the SSD prices will be very different come about 2 years from now.
I'm just going to throw my review out there for OWC- I highly trust and recommend them. Great company. In fact, their warehouse and HQ are really close to me...so generally I get stuff sometimes the same day I order it. If not same day, it get it the next...but yeah, their quality is really good.
Economy SSD's kind of defeat the purpose of SSD's. If it's not as fast or has less advanced measures to deal with degredation, then why would you pay hundreds of dollars to mod your MBA with it?
Yeah it would be a bit cheaper than this current offering, and would fit into these smaller form factor laptops, but really you'd still be paying a few hundred dollars extra for something lacking many of the strengths of the SSD in the first place.
Another 12 months will probably see another big improvement in the $/GB ratio, so if you absolutely must have the 512GB/1TB drives then please continue to sit on your thumbs for a year because the current MBA just isn't viable for you. Portable media archive is simply not its current role.
Yeah it would be a bit cheaper than this current offering, and would fit into these smaller form factor laptops, but really you'd still be paying a few hundred dollars extra for something lacking many of the strengths of the SSD in the first place.
Another 12 months will probably see another big improvement in the $/GB ratio, so if you absolutely must have the 512GB/1TB drives then please continue to sit on your thumbs for a year because the current MBA just isn't viable for you. Portable media archive is simply not its current role.