Points at the megathread "Nationalize it"

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    4 years ago

    I'm guessing it's a 2011-ish MacBook Air? Those generally come with 64-128 GB hard drives, which isn't very big. They're that small since they use safer, faster solid state drives (SSD) instead of a physical disc drive (HDD) which are usually cheaper and bigger storage capacity.

    Those solid state drives have really come down in price recently so if there's a local computer shop you might be able to get them to upgrade it to 2-4 times the storage capacity for 100-200$.

    As long as everything else is still working on it you should be able to still use it for a few more years, I think. If you have movies or photos or whatever you can also just purchase a 256 GB flash drive, use it to store all of your photos (or whatever), for like $50 and that should last you many more years as long as you don't lose it.