How well do the older MacBook Airs hold up? (Looking to buy a 2011-2014)

I have the Mid-2012 13" Air. I use it all the time. Key is max out the memory. That's the first bottleneck that people notice. I use it daily and can usually get 6-7 hours out of it with browsing, note taking, etc before I need to plug in. One thing about any mac is the RAM makes a huge difference, so try for 8 gigs for those years.

My mom has a 2008 iMac that I had to use the other day. The experience was click, wait, program opens, click, wait, website loads, etc. I spent $70 to max the RAM from 2 to 8 and it flies now.

The 12” MacBook is much nicer.

My wife (sorry no photos) has a 2013 13" MacBook Air 4/128. It still performs like it did on day one. She gets hours of use from the battery. Each O/S upgrade seems to use less SSD space.

If your computer use is all or mostly browser based you should consider an 11" Chromebook. You should be able to pick a new one up for $150 - $200.

So 8gb of ram should be enough for it to stay working efficiently for a long time?

It isn’t possible to switch the ram in those correct?

I may want to consider this in my MacBook. I'm starting to use a little more for work and Excel/Outlook can drag quite a bit.

Mine from 2012 still runs awesome and I use it everyday. Just make sure and get an 8GB RAM

I used a 2011 MacBook Air 13" until just a few months ago. It held up really well, but I did replace the battery in it about a year and a half ago to get a longer charge.

I recommend one of these storage expansion cards that fits flush with the card slot. You won't even notice it is there.

Mine only had 4GB of RAM, so I used an app called Memory Clean often, and that worked well.

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Just download more ram

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yea there are some nice CloudRAM options...