It is possible to improve macbook air characteristics?

It is possible to improve macbook air characteristics?
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Memory can not be added, the CPU can not be changed, but you may be able to upgrade the hard drive.

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    Is it possible to buy macbook air with russian keyboard?

    Ilya82 wrote:
    Is it possible to buy macbook air with russian keyboard?
    You should contact an Apple retail store and ask if they can make a special order for you.
    http://www.apple.com/retail/

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    Resetting SMC may help. Try it.
    Reset SMC.     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
    Choose the method for:
    "Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
    Best.

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    macbook details:
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    Graphics Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB
    Macbook identifier MacBookAir5,1
    i am not sure what would be better for me the 1tb aura or the 480 aura pro??

    macbook details:
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    Macbook identifier MacBookAir5,1
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    So I accidentally downloaded a file that would allow me to watch a video because "mine was out of date" or something, not Adobe, and wasn't really paying attention and realized that I download it and when I thought i was deleting it I realized I installed it instead. I wasn't that worried about it at first because I was always under the impressions that macs couldn't get any type of virus at all. I had thought that just deleting the files off the computer would solve my problems but they didn't and can't seem to find any other suspicious files so they appear to be gone. I continuously get adds for "mackeeper", anti-virus products and then just some random stuff every time i open a new tab. I have spent hours trying to figure out how to get rid of this and I have been unsuccessful. I download an anti-virus product, Sophos Anti-virus, and did a full scan but it said there were no threats, maybe due to me deleting files. I then checked my extensions in my Safari preferences and there is not a single extension there. I have tried looking/ using the terminal and activity monitor to help this, due to others suggesting this with instructions, and haven't been able to understand the directions at all to get it to work. Also I get these pop-ups in both safari and chrome. I don't know what to do next and can't find anything that seems to work. Would a complete reboot of the computer fix this? Do I need to try a new anti-virus system? or is there some other way to fix it that I'm missing? or am i screwed because I actually installed this program and then deleted the files that I found which I also deleted from the trash? Please help

    There is no need to download anything to solve this problem. You may have installed a variant of the "VSearch" ad-injection malware. Follow Apple Support's instructions to remove it.
    If you have trouble following those instructions, see below.
    Malware is always changing to get around the defenses against it. This procedure works as of now, as far as I know. It may not work in the future. Anyone finding this comment a few days or more after it was posted should look for a more recent discussion, or start a new one.
    The VSearch malware tries to hide itself by varying the names of the files it installs. To remove it, you must first identify the naming pattern.
    Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination  command-C:
    /Library/LaunchDaemons
    In the Finder, select
              Go ▹ Go to Folder...
    from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.
    A folder named "LaunchDaemons" may open. Look inside it for two files with names of the form
              com.something.daemon.plist
    and
               com.something.helper.plist
    Here something is a variable string of characters, which can be different in each case. So far it has always been a string of letters without punctuation, such as "cloud," "dot," "highway," "submarine," or "trusteddownloads." Sometimes it's a meaningless string such as "e8dec5ae7fc75c28" rather than a word. Sometimes the string is "apple," and then you must be especially careful not to delete the wrong files, because many built-in OS X files have similar names.
    If you find these files, leave the LaunchDaemons folder open, and open the following folder in the same way:
    /Library/LaunchAgents
    In this folder, there may be a file named
              com.something.agent.plist
    where the string something is the same as before.
    If you feel confident that you've identified the above files, back up all data, then drag just those three files—nothing else—to the Trash. You may be prompted for your administrator login password. Close the Finder windows and restart the computer.
    Don't delete the "LaunchAgents" or "LaunchDaemons" folder or anything else inside either one.
    The malware is now permanently inactivated, as long as you never reinstall it. You can stop here if you like, or you can remove two remaining components for the sake of completeness.
    Open this folder:
    /Library/Application Support
    If it has a subfolder named just
               something
    where something is the same string you saw before, drag that subfolder to the Trash and close the window.
    Don't delete the "Application Support" folder or anything else inside it.
    Finally, in this folder:
    /System/Library/Frameworks
    there may an item named exactly
                v.framework
    It's actually a folder, though it has a different icon than usual. This item always has the above name; it doesn't vary. Drag it to the Trash and close the window.
    Don't delete the "Frameworks" folder or anything else inside it.
    If you didn't find the files or you're not sure about the identification, post what you found.
    If in doubt, or if you have no backups, change nothing at all.
    The trouble may have started when you downloaded and ran an application called "MPlayerX." That's the name of a legitimate free movie player, but the name is also used fraudulently to distribute VSearch. If there is an item with that name in the Applications folder, delete it, and if you wish, replace it with the genuine article from mplayerx.org.
    This trojan is often found on illegal websites that traffic in pirated content such as movies. If you, or anyone else who uses the computer, visit such sites and follow prompts to install software, you can expect more of the same, and worse, to follow. Never install any software that you downloaded from a bittorrent, or that was downloaded by someone else from an unknown source.
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    Then, still in System Preferences, open the App Store or Software Update pane and check the box marked
              Install system data files and security updates (OS X 10.10 or later)
    or
              Download updates automatically (OS X 10.9 or earlier)
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  • AppleWorks last ran under 10.6; I have 10.8 on the MacBook Air.  Is it possible to load a copy of 10.6 to use as a separate startup disk so that I can have access to AppleWorks on the MacBook Air?

    Like many, I have been a Mac user since the original little guy, and have tons of documents created under Claris Works and AppleWorks.  I can still run AppleWorks under 10.6 on my wife's iMac (Intel chips), but not the 10.8 that came with the MacBook Air.  On older machines, I could load and select different versions of the OS as different startup disks.  Would this be possible on the MacBook Air to be able to retain operational access to the AppleWorks software and all those files I have accumulated?

    Read these papers:
    http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/aw/page1.html
    and
    https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2522
    The answer to your question is YES: to run Appleworks on your MBA, install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 8 for concurrent access to and use of Appleworks in Mt.Lion:
                                  [click on image to enlarge]
    More information here:
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439

  • Why is Macbook air 2014 used 15 days, the battery is lost 2,5% ?

    Dear Sir or Madam,
    I just bought a new macbook air Early 2014 and the first time charging  and calibrated 3 times. Every it time i try charging 8 hours right , but now my battery is only 97,5%, so I was really disappointed in the quality of products.
    The second, when i turned my mac display from white blue and after switch to white yellow. I check display it produced by Samsung vendor " LS "
    Help me please feedback as soon as possible. The macbook air just active August 21,2014
    Hien Duong

    No current production Mac battery requires "calibration", so whatever you did is a waste of time and will not help. Discharging it completely more than once a month or so will needlessly reduce its longevity.
    Read: Apple Portables: Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance
    It is not possible to make any determination regarding its battery in such a short amount of time. Over the long term, its full charge capacity will decrease. Over the short term, it can either decrease or increase. What you are describing is not abnormal.

  • Stolen Macbook air 11.6 in Eschborn, Germany

    Dear all,
    if anyone reads my words here, please let me know if there are any possibility find my Macbook air 11.6.
    Most important thing is data. In fact, FEB 13, 2013, KFC Parking lot in Eschborn, Germany, someone open my car and took my TUMI bag that include extremely important things like original business contract, two notebooks, one of them is mac book air 11.6", 1TB HDD extremly important data and so on.
    the s/n is C0******JYD. If anyone has chance to have my macbook, please hand it over to police station in Eschborn, Hauptstrasse 300, Eschborn, Germany.
    This is extremly serious now. this guy ruined my life now.
    YJ CHUNG
    <Edited by Host>

    Hey, sorry for a late answer. I got very busy setting up my MacBook Air hehe.
    Yes, it worked really nice to just install Mac OS X on a usb flash storage and then i just created 3 partitions on the SSD storage where i have Windows 7, games and programs and partition for music.
    Ofc, Mac OS X is really slow by having it installed on a USB flash storage though. But i will only use it to try out Mac OS X and to update important things.
    After that was done, then i just installed Windows 7 on the first partition on the SSD. When that was done, then i installed the Boot Camp drivers for Windows 7.
    When that was done, then i could choose to just use Windows 7 as the main OS under Startup tab in the Boot Camp program. If i don't have the USB flash storage plugged in, then i don't even get up the choice to choose Mac OS X there.
    I also found out that if i have a USB flash storage plugged in while booting Windows 7 (not with the USB flash storage with Mac OS X), then it can slow down the time the white picture shows before the laptop starts to load Windows 7.
    So now i have installed everythging in Windows 7 of what i need and everything works good. I even tried the new game Fallout New Vegas on the MacBook Air. And suprisingly, it ran the game pretty well even when i had the graphic on max.
    It was fully playable with the graphic on High (Ultra is the best settings for graphic there). It was even running good with full Anti-Alisaing and Anisotropic Filtering. But just because i like to have a smoothest possible game, then i don't use the AA and AF now. So it runs good.
    I'm even gonna try S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat on the MacBook to see how that will go.
    So far i'm very satisfied with the MacBook Air 11.6 inch version with 64 GB SSD storage, 2 GB RAM and 1.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU.
    Message was edited by: Tom-Helge

  • Is it possible to buy macbook laptop with Swedish keybord outside Sweden

    Hi!
    I would like to know if it is possible to buy Macbook laptop with Swedish keyboard outside Sweden?
    In other words, if I want to have macbook laptop with swedish keyboard, do I have to buy it in Sweden?
    Thanks!

    Ilya82 wrote:
    Is it possible to buy macbook air with russian keyboard?
    You should contact an Apple retail store and ask if they can make a special order for you.
    http://www.apple.com/retail/

  • Macbook Air (2010), Bluetooth 4.0?

    I have a Macbook Air (2010) and upgraded to Lion OSX. I was checking my Bluetooth version and it lists it as 4.0 - more specifically: 4.0.1f4
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    That refers to the software release version.  Everyone has the same software version under Lion.
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  • Photoshop on my Macbook Air

    Hello! I am a hobby photographer and would like to have the full Photoshop version. Would this be at all possible on a Macbook Air? Thanks

    Thanks! I have the MacBookAir3,2 wit following specs:
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  • Hello, I am having a macbook air early 2008 and it is having a hard drive failure i need to replace the hard drive is it possible ? the hard drive number is HS082HB

    Hello, I am having a macbook air early 2008 and it is having a hard drive failure i need to replace the hard drive is it possible ? the hard drive number is HS082HB could you please help !!

    You can replace it with a solid state drive, see the one OWC sells here.  The video on how to install it is here.
    iFixit.com has used hard drives available here.
    If it were me, I'd go with a solid state drive, as the prices have come down recently and the performance improvement is noticeable.

  • I got a mid 2011 macbook air 13 with 128gb ssd is it possible to upgrade my storage?

    i got a mid 2011 macbook air 13 with 128gb ssd is it possible to upgrade my storage?

    It is entirely possible, as many have known from day one (as ifixit's first teardown revealed). Unlike the unupgradeable memory, the SSD is a discrete expansion card that is removeable with just one screw, after removing the case cover. It is however debateable as to whether such an expansion is worth the possible risk of making demonstrable changes to the MBA whilst still under warranty. So you may want to stave off consideration for a while.
    I made the upgrade recently on my older 2010 MBA, and it was easier than upgrading the HDD on my old MacBook Pro.
    Here OWC/Mac Sales has kits and instruction videos.

  • Improving the 2013 Macbook Air i7 battery life

    Hi
    I've checked couple of topics related to this issue seems many people suffer from this problem, i7 8gb ram with 512gb ssd Macbook air has some issues with its battery life it reduced very quickly. I've applied some techniques -like smc reset,deleting launch daemons and agents- and have an improvement in battery performance. Now the point is, when i do the EtreCheck there are many kernel extensions displayed in the report. Is there any way to delete them and slightly improve the battery life?
    Here is the output:
    Hardware Information:
              MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)
              MacBook Air - model: MacBookAir6,2
              1 1.7 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
              8 GB RAM
    Video Information:
              Intel HD Graphics 5000 - VRAM: (null)
    System Software:
              OS X 10.9.3 (13D65) - Uptime: 0 days 13:15:5
    Disk Information:
              APPLE SSD SM0512F disk0 : (500,28 GB)
                        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted>: 209,7 MB
                        Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / [Startup]: 499,42 GB (372,12 GB free)
                        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>: 650 MB
    USB Information:
              Apple Internal Memory Card Reader
              Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub
                        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
    Thunderbolt Information:
              Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus
    Gatekeeper:
              Mac App Store and identified developers
    Kernel Extensions:
              [not loaded] com.NovatelWireless.driver.NovatelWirelessUSBCDCECMControl (3.0.13) Support
              [not loaded] com.NovatelWireless.driver.NovatelWirelessUSBCDCECMData (3.0.13) Support
              [not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBCDCACMData (1.3.35) Support
              [not loaded] com.ZTE.driver.ZTEUSBMassStorageFilter (1.3.35) Support
              [not loaded] com.nike.sportwatch (1.0.0) Support
              [not loaded] com.novamedia.driver.IceraUSB_MSD_Bypass (1.3.0) Support
              [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3G (3.0.13) Support
              [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.3GData (3.0.13) Support
              [not loaded] com.novatelwireless.driver.DisableAutoInstall (3.0.13) Support
              [not loaded] com.option.driver.Option72 (2.15.0) Support
              [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionHS (3.26.0) Support
              [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionMSD (1.21.0) Support
              [not loaded] com.option.driver.OptionQC (1.11.0) Support
              [kext loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverInt (0.0.67) Support
              [not loaded] com.rim.driver.BlackBerryUSBDriverVSP (0.0.67) Support
              [not loaded] com.vodafone.driver (3.0.9) Support
              [not loaded] com.vodafone.driver.Data (3.0.9) Support
              [not loaded] com.zte.driver.cdc_ecm_qmi (1.0.26) Support
              [not loaded] com.zte.driver.cdc_usb_bus (1.0.26) Support
              [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSamsung (0.0.2) Support
              [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMSmartplugSCSIDevice (1.0.1) Support
              [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMControl (3.2.12) Support
              [not loaded] de.novamedia.driver.NMUSBCDCACMData (3.2.12) Support
              [not loaded] de.novamedia.oem.vodafone.vtp.huawei.cdc (0.0.2) Support
    Problem System Launch Daemons:
              [running] de.novamedia.nmnetmgrd.plist Support
    Launch Daemons:
              [loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist Support
              [loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist Support
    Launch Agents:
              [not loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist Support
              [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist Support
    User Launch Agents:
              [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist Support
    User Login Items:
              None
    Internet Plug-ins:
              FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
              QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
              Flash Player: Version: 13.0.0.214 - SDK 10.6 Support
              Default Browser: Version: 537 - SDK 10.9
              o1dbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
              SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.1 - SDK 10.6 Support
              googletalkbrowserplugin: Version: 5.4.1.18709 Support
              JavaAppletPlugin: Version: 14.9.0 - SDK 10.7 Check version
    Safari Extensions:
              Open in Internet Explorer: Version: 1.0
    Audio Plug-ins:
              BluetoothAudioPlugIn: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.9
              AirPlay: Version: 2.0 - SDK 10.9
              AppleAVBAudio: Version: 203.2 - SDK 10.9
              iSightAudio: Version: 7.7.3 - SDK 10.9
    iTunes Plug-ins:
              Quartz Composer Visualizer: Version: 1.4 - SDK 10.9
    User Internet Plug-ins:
              OctoshapeWeb: Version: 1.0 - SDK 10.8 Support
    3rd Party Preference Panes:
              Flash Player  Support
              MusicManager  Support
              Xmarks for Safari  Support
    Time Machine:
              Skip System Files: NO
              Auto backup: YES
              Volumes being backed up:
              Destinations:
                        My Passport Air [Local] (Last used)
                        Total size: 465.41 GB
                        Total number of backups: 1
                        Oldest backup: 2014-02-20 22:28:07 +0000
                        Last backup: 2014-02-20 22:28:07 +0000
                        Size of backup disk: Excellent
                                  Backup size 465.41 GB > (Disk size 0 B X 3)
              Time Machine details may not be accurate.
              All volumes being backed up may not be listed.
    Top Processes by CPU:
                   3%          WindowServer
                   1%          hidd
                   1%          mds_stores
                   0%          fontd
                   0%          warmd
    Top Processes by Memory:
              82 MB          Google Chrome
              52 MB          Google Chrome Helper
              49 MB          mds_stores
              41 MB          Calendar
              33 MB          WindowServer
    Virtual Memory Information:
              6.03 GB          Free RAM
              998 MB          Active RAM
              97 MB          Inactive RAM
              633 MB          Wired RAM
              522 MB          Page-ins
              0 B          Page-outs
    Is there any other suggestions that you may offer ? Many thanks

    You can use the new Activity Monitor to determine a unitless "Energy Impact" value:
    You can also click the battery icon in your Mac's menu to reveal significant energy hogs (UPS is shown below):
    Whereas Apple recently updated their apps to take advantage of Mavericks' energy saving algorithms, few other vendors have. I surmise the prominent "Energy Impact" hall of shame addition to the new Activity Monitor is Apple's subtle way of nudging them into compliance.
    Google's plethora of invasive OS X system modifications is a popular reason for excessive battery drain. Google has yet to demonstrate the ability to develop efficient OS X apps, and one can only surmise they are not interested in doing so. If you elect to use Google Chrome or any other poorly implemented OS X programs, you must accept the detrimental effect they will have on performance and battery life.
    If you no longer use a Blackberry, uninstall RIM's software. Be sure to follow its uninstallation instructions.

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