Apple introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air today, and it's a feat of miniaturization. Steve Jobs described it as "what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up." Perhaps most ...

Apple’s MacBook Air has always been a solid and reliable little laptop — even more so when the company ditched the hard drive that was in the original for solid state storage. SSDs are far ...

In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and ...

The MacBook Air comes with an 80GB hard drive in its standard configuration. Or you could pay an extra $999 for a 64GB solid-state drive. Why pay more for less? Because SSDs have a number of ...

The best Thunderbolt 3 SSD and hard drives for your MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini, or iMac. ... Other specs include a Seagate 7200 RPM hard disk drive with speeds of up to 240MB/s.

It’s a bit harder to get to the MacBook Air’s hard drive than the regular MacBook’s. You need to remove the bottom cover as well as the battery, both of which are held by a variety of screws.

Think of the last time you made heavy use of your optical drive, and ponder how many Apple users totally cram up their 320GB hard drives, and you’ll see why. There’s also some discussion about ...

Cheaper bus-powered drives are available. Wednesday, January 23rd. A quick reminder: the aptly named MacBook Air SuperDrive is only for the MacBook Air.

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...