The pinouts and circuitry are different between the samsung and toshiba flash controllers, so they can't build them into the main PCB as Apple would prefer, without locking them into one vendor or the other. They need this because the SSD is one of the few things in the Air that requires custom PCB layout and comes from multiple suppliers. When they get a poor price from one, they go to the other. They have both Toshiba and Samsung on the line for supplying these SSDs.

The reason Apple uses a custom form factor SSD is for size, weight, and - most important to Apple - cost. OS X does, however, understand it as an SSD and treats it slightly differently from a hard drive in order to use it to its full potential, but in every other respect it's just a custom form factor SSD. It's a custom form-factor SSD, but it uses a SATA flash controller, and the Air reads it just as if it were any other SATA drive. But they do know what a 'flash drive' is, and due to aggressive marketing they believe it's better than the alternative.

The typical consumer Apple is aiming for does not know what SSD is, nor do they care. Apple markets it as merely flash memory because in the consumer market there are only two storage types - flash and hard drives. How does the use flash memory compare to SSDs? What are the benefits? *Based on selection, the arrow keys let you walk up the hierarchy (object selected) or walk about the object’s components (component selected, including vertices, edge loops, edge rings).What is the benefit of using flash memory in the Macbook Air? With left mouse button for Artisan Paint Operation marking menu Switch to pick color mode (press and release) Modify upper brush radius (press and release) Modify maximum displacement (Sculpt Surfaces and Sculpt Polygons Tool) Modify lower brush radius (press and release) Lock/unlock length of curve (press and hold)Įdit Paint Effects template brush settings Increases Division Levels for Smooth Mesh Preview or Subdiv Proxy Isolate Select > View Selected (in the panel menus)ĭecreases Division Levels for Smooth Mesh Preview or Subdiv Proxyĭefault polygon mesh display (no smoothing)ĭisplays both the original (proxy) and the smoothed mesh With left mouse button for Keyframe marking menu Insert Keys Tool (for Graph Editor) (press and release) Architecture, Engineering and Construction.Architecture, Engineering & Construction.

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