As with anything it could be done with the proper equipment (expensive) and a person with a very high skill level. Most people lack one or both of these requirements rendering the project not cost effective. Its easier and less expensive to trade the computer in on one that more accurately suits your needs.

This is the same question I have been asking, and I would like a REAL answer! CAN it be done, not SHOULD it be done?

I haven't seen the MBA board, so my answer will be more generic. If the memory is soldered onto the board (and we build h/w where we solder flash chips on mother boards for differnet deployments - expensive routers!), to replace/upgrade/or modify those chips, we send them to factory. Precision soldering is required, it is not to be done at home (too fine a work for home, unless you have done this same exact work before and done it well everytime).

Even after factory re-work, some boards/assembly simply fail (shorted etc). Definitely not worth the risk unless you have direct access to a mother board assembly factory and someone does it for you over there.

cheers

Sounds odd what's difficult here.......not a ball array surely?

Could we get a photo up and check out if it can be done with just the help of a heat sink?

Cheeryble

question stands;

can it be TECHNICALLY done.

raised the challenge a bit. take a 4 gig 13 inch air and make it 8 gig by either replacing the chips or adding- considering i have not seen a closeup photo of the specific area.

i have worked with surface mount components.

i would also like to get he part numbers of the 4 gig ram that is currently in the macbook air.

i am making a presumption that the bios will recognize 8 gig. if it does not then it cannot be done. we all know the mac os does recognize more then 4 gig.

so think i need;

the part numbers of 4 gig ram that is in the 13 inch air.

the answer to the question of does the macbook air bios recognize 8 gig ram.

thanks and happy new year

bump. i want to do this as well.

Has anyone done this?