MacBook Air 11" 2015 in 2024 - POWERFUL for its size! - Rating performance, repairability and more. 

Glad to hear yours runs well ::))

Thats the same set up I have! except I upgraded to a 1 tb SSD

Very true, and thanks for the comment

If you can find a use for it, get one. Pretty decent still!

they're cheap now. going for about $100

Good to hear! Love them being about the size of a notebook. Yeah they’re not too bad for repairability.

Yeah it’s unique, really. I don’t like the bezels, but other than that it’s pretty cool

Personally i find the 11 inch a very ideal sized netbook. I too got a 2012 model but with i7 8GB RAM and 512 GB SSD for around $220. I am able to have a dual boot setup thanks to the large SSD size. The bezels are huge for 2023 for sure, but you get used to it and eventually you wont notice it as you will be more immersed in the screen in front of you.

how’s it running

Lovely stuff!

Hey what do you think about your New macbook 😊 how is battery time

@@isramx2999 idk how I missed this comment but thanks man :,)

Nice! There’s so many improvements you can get by patching OSes.

@@montaguebarnabasltd oh ya

How did you upgrade the ram?

Thanks for watching! Yeah the 11 inch was a favourite of mine, really. We’ve not properly seen a form factor like it since.

Wow, truly tiny from the pictures I’ve seen!

really depends on how much the battery has been used over its lifetime. I'd give it 4-6 hours on a decent battery in Monterey.

@@montaguebarnabasltd my battery cycle is 156 but battery life not good in Monterey , ı try is ventura and catalina

Oh yeah, I don’t blame you at 11 inches. Yeah the MacBook Pros of 2006-2011 had 17 inch options which were glorious at the time…

@@montaguebarnabasltd I have checked out those 17 inch Mac pro laptops on Ebay and I like the designs, but some of them have graphical problems which I have heard was quite common and they all still command higher prices than an equivalent pc laptop. I did see one early Mac pro which is in splendid cosmetic condition and it works, but the processor is a core duo and it can only handle 2 gig of ram., so I did not bother with it, a suitable one may come my way sometime.

I got quite lucky - not only are the 8gb ram ones rare, the i7s are probably less than 1 out of 5. Try for a 2014 perhaps?

@@montaguebarnabasltd I’m from the United Kingdom, and the ones with 8GB RAM on eBay often go as high as £200+

@@evansytchou2006 oh me too. Had to get this one with a broken hinge and trackpad issues to fix up. Gonna need a battery replacement for sure

@@montaguebarnabasltd I see. Cus I’m trying to get one under £200, given that the computer will be about 10 years old when I get into uni

@@evansytchou2006 yeah definitely not worth paying more than £150 for in my opinion. Keep looking, especially on the ‘Ending Soonest’ tab of auctions.

Now that’s a max spec 11”. Nice!

16gb is not possible is it? 😅

I have the same thing with 16GB RAM. Do you feel the speaker is a bit low, even compared to the MBA 13" same year? Any aftermarket speakers you know of that are louder?

Broadly, yes. Smartphones are really good at single core performance, but not great at things like memory bandwidth and multitasking with multiple cores. The new iPhone would definitely beat it across almost the board though…

yup

You’d have to microsolder very delicate parts. Not really possible, no.

@@montaguebarnabasltd Yeah it sucks that it only came with 4 and 8 gb RAM. None of them are now enough. Especially the base model.

I’d love to see an 11” or 12”. Time will tell, but would be interesting!

with m3 chip would be interesting

@@shuberrycute yes

@@montaguebarnabasltd THANK U BOSS was just curious