New SSD for MacBook Air

Apple’s history with SSDs

Apple was in big trouble last year, when the demand for their Mac devices was at its peak. The MacBooks sold millions of units last year, but the year wasn’t completely trouble-free for Apple. The unexpected chaos caused by the flood in Thailand last year also had some disastrous consequences in the computer hardware sector. It is the manufacturers in Thailand that provide hard disk drives for Apple which comes in the Apple devices. But with the flooding, Apple found it hard to include hard disk drives in their MacBooks.

Apple had to go for an alternative for hard disk drives and used the Solid state drives (SSD) instead. The solid state drives are more powerful and faster making your computer faster even during boot ups. Eventually Apple got back on its feet and things just became normal. But many people now believe that MacBooks should feature SSD drives with greater capacities. If you use the SSD drive in your MacBooks for storage, you will notice that it is pretty fast in read/write operations.

New SSD for MacBook Airs

MacBook Airs now come with Solid state drives but of low capacities. The present Solid state drives in MacBook Airs also don’t reach top read/write speeds, and would go only till half their top speeds. But there are better Solid state drives. The SSD manufactured by Other World Computing (OWC) sports a SandForce memory controller which enables the drive to function at its maximum speed, reaching to up to 500 MB per second.

OWC now released a bigger model of SSDs with a capacity twice as that of the present SSD capacity. If you are wondering if the SSD drives will lose their speeds proportionately with an increase in their capacities, you are wrong. The 480 GB OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express SSD coming in the new MacBook Airs deliver the peak speed of an SSD even at this large a size. Data block management techniques and advanced free space management “recycling” techniques in the OWC Mercury Aura Pro SSDs mean more optimization isn’t necessary in the OWC SSDs.

The Mercury Aura Pro SSDs will be at full potential through out their lifespan. Data protection in this SSD is 100 times more than that provided by the greatest of the HDDs. Aura Pro OWC 480 GB SSDs are compatible with both MacBook Air sizes, with 3 year warranty. However, this cool hardware does come at a big price…….literally. It costs about $1,100 approximately. If it sounds a bit expensive, you will have a second opinion when you see for yourself, how fast the Mercury Aura Pro 480 GB SSD is in your MacBook Air.

Apple Mac Compact Available for Christmas

Apple’s MacBook computers have gained global appreciation and an incredible amount of followers Worldwide and within a short period of time. With the MacBooks gaining this much reputation, Apple constantly tries to make MacBooks, the World’s top best-selling gadgets of all time, by releasing and certifying releases of the coolest accessories for the Macs. Besides these accessories, Apple also develops OS updates for the Macs frequently.

Apple’s marketing strategy also includes launching all ready popular MacBook Air franchise as new limited editions with attractive features, differing even in size. Apparently, Apple is competing with Santa Claus himself as Apple’s new Christmas gift to the World is something cool, unique and pretty small and compact. It is a compact version of Apple’s MacBook Air sharing a similarity in size with iPod Nano.

This new version of MacBook Air is referred to as the MirrorBook Air. Certain facts about this gadget may sound disappointing, but MirrorBook MacBook will definitely win the hearts of Apple fan-girls, probably. The first thing is that Apple hasn’t endorsed it, well, not that much. If you are wondering about how cool such a small device would be with all the awesome technology it is made of, then you are going to be quite disappointed.

The truth is that MirrorBook Air doesn’t come integrated with super cool technologies. As a matter of fact, there isn’t much technology in it to speak of. If you have ideas to present this device to someone close to you, then you had better tell them not to expect MirrorBook to be a miniature version of MacBook Air with all of Apple’s much appreciated features. MirrorBook is definitely a miniature version of MacBook Air. But it is nowhere close to be considered as a small sized Apple MacBook Air.  

The bright side is that it can be used as a pocket mirror. It would make a cute and pretty pocket mirror and girls are going to love it – their very own MacBook model pocket mirror. This would be a great addition to all the fancy stuff you have at your place. If you are wondering about the price, no need to worry as MirrorBook costs only a fraction of the price tag of the real McCoy. MirrorBook Air is quite stylish for its size and would be a great Christmas gift for a girlfriend who loves Apple more than you.