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The April 2014 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Air features refreshed dual-core i5 and i7 processors, plus slightly increased battery performance.

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Why is my laptop so slow?

Hello,

I’m wondering what can be updated in order to increase the speed of my macbook air 4GB early 2014?

if there is multiple things can you please write them in priority.

thank you!

Masha

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Sadly, your systems RAM is quite limited with just 4GB. This is by far your biggest performance gain getting to a 8GB board MacBook Air 13" (Mid 2013-Early 2014) 1.4 GHz Logic Board sadly that’s the limit fo this series. The next biggest performance gain is getting a larger SSD OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD I would try to get to the 480GB as you need more free space with a limited RAM system as your system will use the SSD for VRAM.

Now the kicker! Are you willing to invest $450 into this system? You may want to look at getting a more powerful system (used) as an example a 2018 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM with 256/512GB SSD.

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MacBook Air 13" (Mid 2013-Early 2014) 1.4 GHz Logic Board

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