Finally A New MacBook Air

[Markintosh]

Okay...well not really new, but it sure feels like it! It's the same mid-2012 MBA 11 inches I have been using for three years. For the last year, the it's been a constant battle with the 128G SSD running around 95% full. It's been a year of beach balls and OMG moments when the poor little guy just became slow as my grandma.

Installed the 480G Aura SSD from OWC yesterday, removed a layer of internal dust, and shined up the outside. The hardware part of the upgrade was 10 minutes. The transfer of info from the old SSD was tricky. Tried the start fresh then migrate - but it was not moving much other than my documents folder. Finally updated to the latest SuperDuper and cloned, then updated to Yosemite and ran all updates. The first 10 hours were slow with a lot of heat as Spotlight indexing happened and a full Time Machine backup completed. But now super speedy, relatively speaking, and happiness at last.

The cost of the upgrade was $279. A new MBA with comparable storage would be around $1300. My battery has 950 cycles and health is at 84% - but this laptop is used 90% on the cord, so I can deal with that. The Aura does not have perfect reviews. People have had issues, but that is true of every SSD on the market and I feel like I want to support OWC.

Larry!

[Lew Zealand]

Self-refurb Leader!

[Speedy]

(tu)

[prymsnap]

I've been wanting to do that same upgrade for a while now to my late 2010 11" MBAir, 4gb/128gb. You might have bumped me over to the "go ahead and do it" side. Because this is my travel computer it's been easy to put the project on the back burner. However, the most recent road trip required processing a boatload of photos for a convention event and it was a real struggle. I try to keep everything slim and trim, but still.

I have less than 300 battery cycles and battery capacity is at 88%.

[sekker]

Upgrade L E A D E R !

(this gives you a brand-new machine, so it counts in my book...)