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MacBook Air 13" Early 2015 Teardown

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  • The flash memory is still PCIe-based, and remains, thankfully, removable—at least for now. Popping it out for inspection, we find:

  • Samsung S4LN058A01 PCIe 3.0 x4 AHCI flash controller

  • Samsung K4E4E324ED 512 MB LPDDR3 DRAM

  • 8 x Samsung K9LDGY8S1D-XCK0 16 GB flash storage (128 GB total)

  • Apple tells us this bad boy "...features faster flash storage that is up to two times faster than the previous generation."

  • We did a little benchmarking, and found that the claim is valid. Nice one, Apple!

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