Chris, we're talking making upgrades at time of sale, not after the fact.
You have the options of upgrading the processor from i5 to i7, you can
upgrade ram, and also the size of the SSD from 128 to 256, to 512.
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From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade options
From what I've read, the only thing you can upgrade on a MacBook Air is
the SSD, and even that requires taking out a bunch of screws to remove
the back cover and such.
CB
On 7/16/13 3:36 PM, Scott Davert wrote:
Hi all.
I assume if I want to upgrade my MacBook Air, I have to send it back to
Apple?
Thanks,
Scott
On 7/16/13, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's my thinking too. I'll upgrade from the baseline processor to a
mid-level, then get 8GB ram and a 256 SSD (ccan't really afford a 512
ssd)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com>
To: "Macvisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade options
Hi,
For the majority of folks, The difference between the midlevel and high
end
processor won’t be noticed much. I would much rather spend my money on
RAM
and an SSD. The performance upgrade is noticeable, and immediate.
Ricardo Walker
rica...@appletothecore.info
Twitter:@apple2thecore
www.appletothecore.info
On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Chris Blouch <cblo...@aol.com> wrote:
Windows does a lot of disk read/write and folks I know who went with an
SSD seem to have things start up much faster. I generally try to overbuy
on the parts I can't upgrade as I keep my machines for a long time to
justify the cost (7 years or more). Today's high end is tomorrow's
minimum
bar.
CB
On 7/14/13 7:08 PM, Phil Halton wrote:
I currently have an iMac with quad core I5 processor, 8gb ram, and
7200rpm HD. Running fusion5/win7 with Jaws I find it totally
responsive,
no lag at all. I guess that's why I'm so happy with windows in a
virtual
machine. And, I'm using the default fusion5 settings of 1 core and 2gb
ram assigned to the VM.
I'll most likely trick out the Air with 8GB and 256GB ssd. It's the
processor I'm wondering about. My experience with hardware upgrades,
especially processors, is that moving up one or two grades is worth the
money, but moving up to the utmost upgrade generally doesn't return
much
for the money involved. So, I'll probably bump up the processor a bit
from the base-line I5 1.3 GHZ.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Hogue"
<harryhog...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: MacBook Air upgrade options
Hi Phil,
I have only ever worked with a MacBook Pro running 4gb of ram and with
a 320 hard drive (not an SSD). From my experience, the virtual
machine setup with usable for tiems when you only want to run Windows
for a few minutes, in somewhat limited situations. What I have found,
however, is that after setting up Boot Camp on my computer, I see no
difference in performance whatsoever. I have been running my system
under Windows exclusively over the past week or so for school-related
things that I need Microsoft Word for, and it is though I were running
on a PC. I always found Fusion with Windows and JAWS, or any other
screen-reader, to be very sluggish, especially if I had other programs
running in the background, no matter how much I increased available
memory to the VM through Fusion settings.
Now, this is only my opinion and thoughts, of course. It very well
may be that for most people this set up works perfectly fine. Indeed,
I made it work for me for around a year or so. However, for
day-to-day reliable performance, I found I needed Windows under Boot
Camp, and again, thank you to all on this list who helped me to
achieve that. Your patience was and is very kind and appreciated.
I considered upgrading my RAM, etc. and certainly increased RAM may
help, but I'm not certain how much. I know that VoiceOver likes to
say "Busy, busy, busy" in programs sometimes, and I remember that I
have had the same issues with that as someone who had 2 gb of ram.
But ram is always supposed to be the biggest factor in immediate
increased performance.
Thanks,
Harry
On 7/14/13, Phil Halton <philh...@comcast.net> wrote:
I want to be able to run fusion/win7 on a macbook air with as little
degradation of performance as possible. What would you think would be
the
minimum upgrades necessary to a Macbook Air 13 inch? I assume 8GB
memory,
256 SSD, and a processor upgrade of some kind - what would the list
recommend for processor?
Also, what advantages do the Macbook Pro have over the Air? is it
worth
considering a Pro over an Air model?
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