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Dear Aunt TUAW: Can I use a third-party SSD with Lion?

by Erica Sadun (Aug 1st, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Is there any (un)official word from Apple regarding the support for 3rd party SSD HDDs with Lion? I desire to tweak my MBP but do not wish to be without garbage collection and TRIM. What advice have you? Should I hold off on acquiring an SSD? Warm ...

Apple's flash-buying clout seen as huge advantage

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 27th, 2011)

Apple is not only winning the tablet wars, it's already poised to beat out Intel's new Ultrabook line of tablet-inspired notebooks that are expected to arrive later this year. The Ultrabook is Intel's attempt to merge the instant-on features of a tablet with the power of a notebook. These ...

Rumor: Apple's next 15" laptop refresh will be Air-like

by Michael Rose (Jul 26th, 2011)

Considering the extraordinary success of the MacBook Air in its previous and current refreshes, it doesn't take a particularly accurate crystal ball to predict where the overall laptop lineup is headed. Apple's buying power in NAND flash memory helps it deliver SSDs in portable machines at lower ...

MacBook Airs using SSDs from both Toshiba and Samsung

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 26th, 2011)

Not all the new MacBook Airs are created equal. TLDToday discovered that Apple is yet again using two different manufacturers for the Air's SSD drives. Some MacBook Airs are shipping with Samsung SSDs, while others are shipping with SSDs made by Toshiba. The issue that arises with this is that ...

New MacBook Air SSDs are replaceable

by Steven Sande (Jul 21st, 2011)

No sooner had the new MacBook Air models shown up in Apple Stores than the iFixit team grabbed one for dissection. The site always does a teardown of the latest in Apple technology for the benefit of repair technicians and for hobbyists who love to see what's inside their Macs. The 2011 13" ...

New MacBook Airs may include high-speed 400MBps flash memory

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 4th, 2011)

The next generation MacBook Air may get a flash memory boost according to a report from Macotakara. The new NAND flash memory could replace the Blade X-Gale SSDs in the current generation MacBook Air models. This Toggle DDR 2.0 technology boasts of 400 MBps transfer rates and a 19-nm process ...

On re-purposing the increasingly useless eject key

by Steven Sande (Jul 1st, 2011)

The eject key sits in the upper right corner of most modern Apple keyboards. On my big iMac with its SuperDrive, it occasionally gets pressed when I need to kick out a backup DVD, but the rest of the time it sits alone. It's even worse on a MacBook Air. With no SuperDrive to speak of, the eject ...

Macworld experiences mixed results with MacBook Air SSD upgrades

by Steven Sande (May 24th, 2011)

Computers are like cars: while the vast majority of owners are happy to drive around in their car for years, exactly the way they came off of the dealer's lot, some people want to customize their wheels immediately. It's not surprising that for some owners of Apple's popular MacBook Air, the first ...

OWC offers 480 GB SSD for 2010 MacBook Air

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 6th, 2011)

If you want to give your 2010 MacBook Air a competitive edge with the largest solid state drive available for your notebook, then check out the Mercury Aura Pro Express line from Other World Computing (OWC). The third-party SSD is available in 180, 240, 360 and 480 GB capacities and fits both ...

New iMacs and HDD+SSD configurations; how do they work?

by Richard Gaywood (May 4th, 2011)

MacStories points out there is a small, but perhaps important, difference in the "SSD+HDD" option on the new iMacs. You used to simply get two drives you had to manage separately, as in the screenshot here taken from my MacBook Pro (in which I long ago swapped the optical drive for an SSD). For ...

Apple adds speedier SSDs to latest batch of MacBook Airs

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2011)

When the new MacBook Airs began shipping last October they sported Toshiba's Blade X-gale SSD (Solid State Drive). However, it appears that the latest batch of MacBook Airs uses a blade SSD from Samsung. Apple typically will use multiple vendors to supply the same parts for a particular ...

Keeping SSDs in TRIM: doing the math

by Richard Gaywood (Mar 27th, 2011)

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science that lie behind the hardware. One of the new features we first saw in the developer beta of Mac OS X Lion back in February is long-overdue in this correspondent's humble opinion: it finally supports ...

MacBook Pro updated: Faster CPUs, Radeon HD, Thunderbolt, and more

by Chris Rawson (Feb 24th, 2011)

As expected, Apple has updated the MacBook Pro and given the lineup some significant upgrades. In brief, the lineup has seen significant processor updates, with Intel's new "Sandy Bridge" processors standard throughout the lineup, including 13.3 model. AMD's Radeon HD GPU has replaced the ...

MacBook Pros to have better battery and HD screens, white MacBook finished

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Rumors of the imminent MacBook Pro refresh are gaining even further momentum. So far, we've heard reports that the new, upcoming MacBook Pros will sport larger trackpads, weigh slightly less than the current models and have a 8 - 16 GB SSD boot drive to house Mac OS X (everything else will be ...

MacBook Pro rumors: SSD boot drive standard, bigger trackpad, lighter weight

by Chris Rawson (Feb 21st, 2011)

Citing a source from within Apple, Boy Genius Report has some interesting tidbits on the imminent MacBook Pro update. According to BGR's source, the MacBook Pro's trackpad will be getting even larger than those in the current lineup, and the overall weight of the notebook has dropped by about half ...