Can  a MacBook air ssd be upgraded

The 64 is too small

You can but its quite unrealistic because the proprietary SSD is rather expensive.
Buy a nice 500gig HD for $50
SSD replacement is very expensive.
Any Macbook containing a SSD should be idealized as a working platform computer containing all your applications, documents, and weekly-use necessary files;….. and all media files such as music/video/pics, unless directly needed, should be kept OFF the computer and on external storage USB or likewise portable HD.
Nice 500gig for $50. ultraslim and perfect
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s   r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace.  You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.

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