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MacBook Air 11" Early 2015 Teardown

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  • While the bigger, badder, 13-incher Air got a faster and flashier SSD, the 11" model is stuck in 2013 with the same old, same old.

  • Apple decides not to spread the upgrade fun; we get stuck with a geriatric, 2-year-old SSD. Bring on the extra help to get it up and out of bed.

  • With a little poking and prodding, it proceeds to spill the beans—er, chips. In fact, they're very much the same chips we dipped into on the mid-2013 version:

  • 8 x SanDisk 05131 016G 16 GB NAND flash memory (128 GB total)

  • Marvell 88SS9183 PCIe SSD controller

  • Samsung K4B2G1646E 2 Gb (256 MB) DDR3 SDRAM

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