Upgrading the Storage on a 2015 MacBook Air 11"
My 2015 Core i7 2.2 GHz 8GB MacBook Air 11" still had the Apple SSD AP0128H card, which was getting very cramped. This otherwise maxed out machine natively runs Monterey (and will r un Ventura under OCLP ). As such, and with a 91% original capacity battery, it's still a pretty viable totable workstation, especially now that I’ve got it recharging via USB-C . So I decided to swap in a larger, newer storage module. Opted to go with the best bang for the buck: Crucial P3 1TB PCIe Gen3 3D NAND NVMe M.2 CT1000P3SSD8 (PCIe 3.0 2280) $48 Sintech NGFF M.2 NVMe SSD Adapter Card $12 (The other options were the OWC Aura N2 or Pro, but for this already 8 year old machine, I didn’t want to put much more than $60 into this project.) It’s been a few months since I’ve torn apart one of these 11" MacBooks, but iFixIt reminds me it’s pretty straightforward . Removed the (8) pentalobe screws from the bottom plate with a PL4 driver from my Wiha set , and then removed the OEM SSD drive ...