Hello, going receive my MacBook air 11.6 inch 2015 early in a few days. With it being a older model. An mostly outdated with apple I assume. Is there anything I’ll need to get started or upgrade. Not to familiar with MacBooks I rarely used my 2009 model. More familiar with windows laptops. But everyone I own just got extremely slow. A startup times usually take very long time. So any advice with the 2015 would be appreciated.
The 11" Early 2015 MacBook Air has an internal SSD. Apple shipped it with 128, 256, and 512 GB SSDs, and you can get replacement SSDs that hold as much as 2 TB from Other World Computing.
If you are coming from an older laptop (Windows or Mac) that booted from a mechanical hard drive, having a SSD for the first time should make a big difference in startup and application launch times.
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It is a good idea to keep at least 10% – 15% of the space on your startup drive free. If your MacBook Air has only 128 GB of SSD space, and you find yourself starting to fill it, you may want to consider getting a portable external drive, or upgrading the internal SSD. (I recently bought an external 1 TB SSD which was about the size of a credit card, and about as thick as an iPhone, for ~$60. Not the fastest SSD in the world, but I'm happy with it so far.)
(For internal SSD upgrades, see:)
OWC Solid State Drives for MacBook Air 11" & 13" (Mid 2013 - Mid 2017)
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The difference between an external "PC" drive and an external "Mac" drive is often that
It takes very little time to reformat a "PC" drive as a "Mac" one using Disk Utility. So if you're shopping for drives, you can buy whichever type is on the best sale.
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Steer clear of most "cleaner", "optimizer", etc. apps – these may do more harm than good.
The 11" Early 2015 MacBook Air has an internal SSD. Apple shipped it with 128, 256, and 512 GB SSDs, and you can get replacement SSDs that hold as much as 2 TB from Other World Computing.
If you are coming from an older laptop (Windows or Mac) that booted from a mechanical hard drive, having a SSD for the first time should make a big difference in startup and application launch times.
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It is a good idea to keep at least 10% – 15% of the space on your startup drive free. If your MacBook Air has only 128 GB of SSD space, and you find yourself starting to fill it, you may want to consider getting a portable external drive, or upgrading the internal SSD. (I recently bought an external 1 TB SSD which was about the size of a credit card, and about as thick as an iPhone, for ~$60. Not the fastest SSD in the world, but I'm happy with it so far.)
(For internal SSD upgrades, see:)
OWC Solid State Drives for MacBook Air 11" & 13" (Mid 2013 - Mid 2017)
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The difference between an external "PC" drive and an external "Mac" drive is often that
It takes very little time to reformat a "PC" drive as a "Mac" one using Disk Utility. So if you're shopping for drives, you can buy whichever type is on the best sale.
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Steer clear of most "cleaner", "optimizer", etc. apps – these may do more harm than good.
Did the seller correctly prepare that Mac for sale in accordance with Apple's instructions?
What to do before you sell, give away, trade in, or recycle your Mac - Apple Support
Those instructions are not optional and must be complied with, lest you be unable to use that Mac now or at some time in the future.
If the seller neglected to follow those instructions, does the seller have a no questions asked return policy?
If the answers to those questions are "no" then do not proceed with the sale. Both of you will be saving yourselves a lot of misery.
Make sure to that the Mac is prepared as of John Galt's instructions
Also, I had the early 2015 until last year. It was a good laptop that can be updated as far as Monterey! So you get a fairly recent macOS!
I wish you the best of luck with your new laptop
It’s from plug.tech so thinking it’s sanitized.
MacBook air 11 inch 2015 early model
