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Teardown of Apple's 11.6-Inch MacBook Air Underway

Mal said:
If you look further down that page, they show the controller that Kingston is using, and it appears to be the same Toshiba controller chip from the labeling on it.

jW
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thanks, if understood the Solid State Drive(s) in general correctly, the Kingston review is 128GB but 11" MBA has 64 GB, it is safe to say the performance will be half of the 128GB Kingston which in the review?
 
shanmugam said:
thanks, if understood the Solid State Drive(s) in general correctly, the Kingston review is 128GB but 11" MBA has 64 GB, it is safe to say the performance will be half of the 128GB Kingston which in the review?
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No, performance should be the same, capacity will be half. In practice, the performance may differ depending on how full it is (i.e. with 60GB of data, the 64GB SSD's performance would suffer but the 128GB would not), but that's less to do with the SSD than with general principles of virtual memory and data storage.

jW
 
waiting for the 13" now, hopefully that will have upgradable ram as i want to pick one up tomorrow from the mac store, cant wait for mail order :)
 
shanmugam said:
thanks, if understood the Solid State Drive(s) in general correctly, the Kingston review is 128GB but 11" MBA has 64 GB, it is safe to say the performance will be half of the 128GB Kingston which in the review?
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The capacity will not greatly effect the performance. The 64GB may be faster, as fast, or slower by a fraction of a precent to the 128GB and vice versa.
 
Mal said:
No, performance should be the same, capacity will be half. In practice, the performance may differ depending on how full it is (i.e. with 60GB of data, the 64GB SSD's performance would suffer but the 128GB would not), but that's less to do with the SSD than with general principles of virtual memory and data storage.

jW
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thanks again, being 64GB it is most probably filled up quickly (with OS X and iLife and other apps), it is gonna be less space straight away.

so i think it is better to go with 128GB, right?
 
tirerim said:
Yup. And all it really means is that you have to go to some trouble to get the bits, which are expensive and useless for anything else -- it doesn't actually stop anyone from opening it.
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They're not expensive. You can get a pretty good mini bit set on Amazon including a range of torx, security torx, and other security and standard bits, for about $12. And they're actually handy on more than just these computers. These bits are used on and especially inside other electronic devices.
 
shanmugam said:
thanks again, being 64GB it is most probably filled up quickly (with OS X and iLife and other apps), it is gonna be less space straight away.

so i think it is better to go with 128GB, right?
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Mac OS X + iLife should probably only take up in the vicinity of 12-15GB. If you have lots of other apps and media, then yes, 128GB is probably best. If all you do is iWork/Office docs and email/internet, then 64GB might be plenty.

Basically, you think 64GB isn't enough for you, it might not be.

jW
 
I wonder if they are going to start offering the same hard drive set up for the normal Macbooks and Macbook Pros? Seems like it would be super easy to upgrade that memory over time. Just slip out the 16gb and replace with 32gb, etc.
 
applemike said:
Very true, but still I'd expect that kind of battery life if they had managed to up the CPU to an i3, it's certainly what a lot of others where expecting. I know there are the heat issues, but still, I'd have thought apple, one of the greatest manufacturers of this age, would manage it.

I think im not the only one tired of seeing C2D as well
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Intel's current mobile processors have poor graphics, so Apple compromised with core 2 duo's because they could be interfaced with the nvidia graphics. My recollection is that there were legal issues that prevented nvidia from building the bridge chips necessary to interface with i series processors, and a bus interface to graphics was too big a package I suspect.

Sandy Bridge will have pretty good integrated graphics, so I would hope that Apple adopts these for the next revision of MBA, giving a better all around performa
 
NinjaHERO said:
I wonder if they are going to start offering the same hard drive set up for the normal Macbooks and Macbook Pros? Seems like it would be super easy to upgrade that memory over time. Just slip out the 16gb and replace with 32gb, etc.
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This is what I'm wondering.

I know they have an SSD option on the mbp but it's an expensive option at $300 for 128gb I believe--I would like for the prices to go down a bit. I would happily pay $300 for twice the storage--I wonder when the prices will go down that much.

Argh.

I don't NEED a computer right now--so I'm betting that I will save and have more options for SSD in say 6 months to a year. In the mean time, I'll just be saving up for my future 13" mbp.
 
Mal said:
Mac OS X + iLife should probably only take up in the vicinity of 12-15GB. If you have lots of other apps and media, then yes, 128GB is probably best. If all you do is iWork/Office docs and email/internet, then 64GB might be plenty.

Basically, you think 64GB isn't enough for you, it might not be.

jW
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ok, got it. I am not asking specifically for myself, in general to give some direction to the ones who is getting 64GB SSDs.

I am interested in 13.3" MBA with 128GB, but will wait out until sandy bridge CPU comes along, love to have 4GB as standard.

Also, i believe these changes (Flash Memory and removal of Super Drive) eventually will make it to MBP in the next refresh (let us say Mar 2011), that is time to decide and get MBA.

I like the $1299 13" MBA (i wish 4GB RAM is standard) and it is awesome machine.
 
Hi guys, I need some advice - I'm looking to purchase a new MBA within the next few days (with my education discount!) and was wondering which model would be best for my needs.

I'm a student and won't do any extensive work on the laptop. Mostly websurfing, emailing, Facebook.

I'm worried if I get the 11.6", I'll pressing Command-plus in Safari to blow up Web pages entirely too often.

Also, is 64GB sufficient for my intended purposes or should I splurge and get 128GB?

Thanks in advance for the help!
 
TMay said:
Intel's current mobile processors have poor graphics, so Apple compromised with core 2 duo's because they could be interfaced with the nvidia graphics. My recollection is that there were legal issues that prevented nvidia from building the bridge chips necessary to interface with i series processors, and a bus interface to graphics was too big a package I suspect.

Sandy Bridge will have pretty good integrated graphics, so I would hope that Apple adopts these for the next revision of MBA, giving a better all around performa
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I know about these problems, still though, the C2D + nvidia graphics combo isn't much better than the i3 or i5 with integrated graphics. I was just hoping for something more, maybe even an apple A5 processor in this. Aaah well
 
PatricktheWhore said:
Hi guys, I need some advice - I'm looking to purchase a new MBA within the next few days (with my education discount!) and was wondering which model would be best for my needs.

I'm a student and won't do any extensive work on the laptop. Mostly websurfing, emailing, Facebook.

I'm worried if I get the 11.6", I'll pressing Command-plus in Safari to blow up Web pages entirely too often.

Also, is 64GB sufficient for my intended purposes or should I splurge and get 128GB?

Thanks in advance for the help!
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go with 128GB I had say! ideally IMHO $1299 13" MBA is value for money... remember you might need to spend extra $100 for 4GB RAM also.
 
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