MacBook Air :: MBA Flash Drive Versus MBP SSD
Oct 25, 2010
I have a recent (3 month old) 13 inch MBP with the 512GB SSD. I'm considering a 13 inch MBA with the 256GB NAND flash drive. Obviously I'll have to manage with less storage space, but apart from that, what is the difference between the two drives? Will the newer one in the Air be faster, as it is an Apple custom component rather than an off the shelf part?
I think the new Air is great value, BTW. The SSD in my MBP cost a fortune (but it is really really fast). Also, before anyone says "just keep the MBP", my assistant wants one, so I'll be buying either another MBP or a MBA anyway.
So which is faster MBP with standard 512GB SSD or new MBA with standard 256GB NAND flash?
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Aug 27, 2009
which card I need in order to have dual dual-link DVI?
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Nov 15, 2010
When I travel I would generally take a small travel drive that is clone of my white MacBook as a rescue drive.Now that I have the MBA I am wondering if I could just clone my 11.6 MBA to a 64 GB flash drive and then if the worst happened I could reverse clone from the flash drive to the MBA.
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Oct 25, 2007
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Nov 2, 2009
I'm looking for a new monitor to go with my MBP, and I'm stuck trying to choose between the ones listed above.
The 2407WFP is a couple of years old now I guess, but it's the rev A04 version, which supposedly fixed the (few) problems with what was otherwise meant to be a great screen. It's an sPVA screen.
I've heard good reviews of the G2410, with its LED backlighting. It's still a TN panel and I hear so much bad stuff about them.
The 2209WA is an eIPS panel which I like the sound of, but it's smaller and lower resolution.
The F2380 is a cPVA panel, the image quality looks better but I've heard bad things about blacks on this panel.
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Sep 19, 2009
I have a new Macbook Pro and I also have a sandisk cruzer flash drive. I use a PC at work and when I brought the drive home to do some work on the Mac absolutely nothing happens. Be easy on me. This is my first mac and I am new at this.
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Mar 26, 2012
My PNY attache hook 16gb flash drive was working for about 2 hours with my macbook, but I ran into a problem with itunes and was forced to restart my macbook pro. The usb was only plugged in, no files on it, none in transfer. After the restart I pluged the usb back in and it no longer shows up, I tried using "diskutil list" in terminal and it didn't show up. I have tried all the usb ports on my macbook and it still does not show. Did I somehow corrupt the drive so much that it doesn't even register in terminal? Should I try to get a refund? Or, can I fix this some way on a software/firmare level?
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PNY USB, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jul 2, 2012
I can not get my macbook pro to read my flash drive to import photos, how can I get it to work?
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Jul 4, 2012
Just about to buy a new MacBook Pro with Retina display I need to know if I get the standard $3,199 MacBook Pro with Retina display can I send it to a apple store and change the ram and flash drive later on?
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iPad, iOS 5.1.1
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Jan 14, 2009
I have a Macbook pro (OSX 10.4.11) and all of a sudden it stopped detecting a fairly new Jump/Flash drive that up until now worked fine. The icon doesn't show up on the desktop or in the Macintosh HD window.
The flash drive has "Dane-Elec" printed on it and is 4GB. I've tried it a number of times and nothing. The drive does still work on other computers, and my usb port is working properly with other devices.
The flash drive doesn't seem to show up in System Profiler and my Disk Utility has been "gathering information" for about 5 minutes now." Everything else is working fine with the notebook.
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Aug 10, 2009
I have a 1gb flash drive that i've connected to my macbook. There are no files on the flash drive yet it shows that there is only 97mb's available on the flash drive.
This is so odd to me, but am sure i'm not the 1st person to come across such a situation.
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Jul 8, 2010
I have a cd copy of ubuntu that works fine but is really slow.
I installed to a usb drive multiple times and keep running into the same problem: The flash drive shows up as "Legacy OS" in rEFIT and boots into my windows partition when I select it. It doesnt show up when I hold alt/option on startup. It also doesnt show up in the startup disc menu in system preferences even though its on the desktop.
I have used different usb drives and, like I said, have installed it multiple times. Every site I have gone to uses the same installation method (using ubuntu from a cd) and I dont understand why it wont work.
I have posted this probably in other sections and no one ever responds so Im hoping this will change.
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Feb 24, 2012
I am trying to copy a document folder from my MacBook Pro to a flash drive, but can't figure out how to do it.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Mar 11, 2012
My macbook pro is hardly a few months older...i5 2.4ghz, 4gig ram, 500gig hard drive but the bootcamp in my os x lion doesn't show usb option to install via flash drive. Will I always need a dvd to install windows on my machine. I was trying to install windows 8 customer preview through bootcamp neither did windows 7 install.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Mar 20, 2012
I work for a post secondary school with online formatted classes. We send flash drives out to students to access video content when they are on the go, but it was pretty much made for Windows based computers. I have had a few students now who have Macs and cannot open the content or are getting a message stating the drive is not formated. I see many instructions on how to format a flash drive from a Mac to work on a Mac & PC but nothing about being able to format the flash drive using a PC so it can work on a Mac.Â
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Dell, Windows XP Pro, Windows 7
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Apr 10, 2012
I'm working on a Word document that I have saved to a flash drive. I would like to continue working on it at home (via my MacBook) but I'm not sure how to save it correctly to the flash drive.
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Jun 17, 2012
I tried plugging my flash drive in to my Macbook today and it won't show up. I've tred it on multiple computers and nothing. I opened it on another computer a couple days ago and it worked just fine I also opened it on my computer about a week ago and it worked perfectly. But now nothing. Â
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 18, 2012
I noticed the new Macbook Pro with Retina display has flash memory instead of a Hard drive. I love the new features and I want to buy it but I'm very skeptical of this flash memory. Can someone please help explain it to me. Is it better than have a hard drive in your computer?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display
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Jun 26, 2012
I plug in my flash drive but nothing happens, I have word documents on it but I dont have word downloaded yet onto my Mac.
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MacBook Pro
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Jun 6, 2014
I am wondering if it is possible to put pictures from my desktop on a flash drive and transferring over to this mac book pro.is that possible to do and if so how do i store them do i put them in iphoto and if so how? Â
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iPad 2, iOS 7.0.1, It's a brand new iPad Air
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Aug 25, 2014
I downloaded Mavericks to a flash drive in order to wipe my MBP hdd. I would now like to reinstall Mavericks onto the HDD but my flash drive is too small to redownload the installer. What can I do to get Mavericks back on my laptop?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Dec 1, 2014
I plugged my flash drive into the usb port to transfer photos but cant find it. Where did it go?
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iMac (20-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Oct 21, 2010
Could someone check in their System Profiler -> Serial-ATATRIM would be really useful during the lifetime of the flash drive.
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Nov 21, 2010
I recently purchased a MacBook Air 13" 128GB. I've owned a first gen iMac. I currently own a iPad, a iPod Classic 80 GB, and a iPod touch. I live in Colorado and use Comcast cable internet. Recently we've had some problems with internet speeds. I decided to go to speedtest.net and test our internet speed. I was troubled to see how slow our connection was.
Under 10 and sometimes under 5. The trouble seemed to be only on Saturdays. After many tests w/ speedtest.net I decided to compare the MacAir to my wife's PC. I was a bit surprised to see the PC get more than double the speed of the Mac. After comparing speeds with some other peeps on another forum I frequent it seems the MacAirs and iPads download information much slower than PCs and full blown Macs.
My question is: Does flash drive memory download information slower than the traditional hard drives found on PCs and larger Macs?
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Jan 20, 2009
I'd like to set up a backup strategy for my rev A MBA SSD. Can this be done with a 64gb usb flash drive?
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Feb 4, 2012
Why can't I get my MacBook to recognize my flash drive? When in word or pages, I will go to file to "open" and my flash drive is not listed.
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MacBook Pro
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Mar 12, 2012
How do you save a link that is in an email toa usb flash drive?
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MacBook
Pro, iOS 5.1
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Apr 12, 2012
All of a sudden the other day, my Verbatim USB flash drive just stopped being recognized... it had been mounted, a TM backup made to it when all of a sudden I got an error stating that it had been improperly removed... it was like I had yanked it from the USB port.I tried unplugging it, reconnecting, rebooting, moving it to another computer... no luck. it doesn't even show up in Disk Utility Verbatim has agreed to replace it under warranty but I'm wondering if there's anyway that I can mount it again to retrieve the TM backups.
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Apr 25, 2012
My flash drive was working a few minuets ago and then I accidently clicked it and then dragged it into my "favorites" column, and now I can't find it anywhere on my hard drive. It lights up when I plug it in and a thing pops up when I did not "eject" it the right way.
Info:MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)
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May 9, 2012
I want to opy my itunes library from my mac book to an 8 gig pen drive.
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