The first level you’ll see your new SSD on top. The Transcend packaging is extremely nice. Spoiler alert: here’s Transcend’s video which makes it all look incredibly easy: Luckily, it is a Samsung drive and not the slower Toshiba drives that came with these MacBook Airs. My wife’s 128GB MacBook Air from 2011 has been “full” for about a year now and every few months I have to run Cocktail to remove some caches, etc. and keep it going for a few more months.
I got my hands on a demo unit and took it for a test drive… Keep in mind these are SATA-based SSDs and Apple’s latest round of MacBook Pro/Airs came with speedier PCIe SSDs so you can’t use these on Apple’s late 2013/2014 models (see bottom of the article for compatibility list). Even better, Transcend just released larger versions in 480GB and 960GB sizes to blow your SATA III MacBook Air or Pro into new worlds of space. See that little $190 daughter card up there^? It houses 240GB of Transcend SSD and it could replace the 64GB or 128GB SSD that came in your MacBook Air in as little as 5 minutes.
