i need to use this drive with my macbook air 11inch cant get it to work, why, somebody help !
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I have seen several posts like this. I bought this as well and my first one didnt work. They sent me another one and it worked fine. Even now I sometimes have to plug and unplug a couple times before my macbook air recognizes it. I just think they are cheap and faulty. Either have them send you a replacement (they didnt want the other one returned) or try another product and send back for a refund.
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It just doesn't work. I had to return mine cause it wouldn't work on mine either. Easy of money! Return it! It shouldn't be that hard to use and it is and doesn't work at that.
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I can't really tell you what's wrong but the same thing happened to me. I returned it and got my money back cause it straight up didn't work.
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Anastasia, Try some other USB device in the same USB port you are using this adopter. Coz in my Macbook Pro, I found one of my USB port is not working. Or try this in second USB port of your MacBook Air. and click on system preference go to network and see if it detects thunderbolt as device. May be it is not active there. Let me know if still is doesn't work.
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I have not used it on a MacBook Air, but Apple makes a proprietary FireWire adapter for the Thunderbolt port. If you MacBook Air predates Thunderbolt, it may be hard because your hard drive is supposed to operate off of a threshold speed. If you have Thunderbolt, you will need to buy Apple's adapter, then this, and I would imagine you could hook it up pretty easily. If you MacBook Air predates Thunderbolt, I am not sure what you would do.
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It works with my macbook, and I did not have to install a driver, I don't know for sure about a MB air, but I imagine it woudl be the same
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The fix is a little kludgy... but it can be done. The trick is to look for a "400" to "800" dongle or hub. What you are trying to do is come out of the dongle or hub with a "FW 800" cable and into the Apple Thunderbolt adapter dongle (about $30). I have lots of FW 800 hard drives that I use to feed my new Apple PBRP... and it works just fine ;-{)
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Hasn't been a problem. I have a 2012 MacBook Air if that helps any. I even washed this drive and it still worked after. With no issues.
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No, it won't. This drive is made specifically for the newest Macbook Air's only.
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Your mid 2013 macbook air isn't supported because its a pci-e ssd, whereas these are sata3 ssds. Check out the compatibility chart.
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It should work fine as long as the hard drive and the adaptor both use the same interface cable. The MacBook Air used a ZIF socket on the HD
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You have a MacBook Pro that has a built in Superdrive. Per Apple the new, external Superdrive will not work with an of the older, aka Built in Superdrive computers. If you have time to return it, I'd return it to Amazon for a credit.
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It is a MAC/PC/Linux compatible device using USB 3.0 for the interface.. It "SHOULD" work.. I use it on 4 different platforms, a 1 yr old 13" Macbook i5 running Mavericks, on a Dell Windows 7 Pro i7 laptop and my wife's Dell Windows 8.1 Premium Edition i7 laptop and my very old Dell e520 Pentium 4 running CentOS 7 Linux desktop. It works well on all of these platforms. It it does not work on a Mac Air then Apple has screwed something up again as usual. The drive is really fast and has never given me any issues in 6 months of use. Good luck.
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I have Yosemite 10.10.2. If anyone has found a driver that enables this dongle work with my Macbook Air...Let me know and I'll order it. Desperately need a wifi antenna/amp soon... but would be foolish to order until there are some assurances that the thing works!
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Look at my answer under the mac question. A very important detail is that the (white) cable is not a standard USB-mini cable. The fat head apparently has some circuitry in it to help make the cable look like a serial port. If you substitute an ordinary cable, it will not work. Other than that it's a bit finicky until it "clicks".
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It's a standard USB 3.0 hub, so it should work with your MacBook Air USB 3.0 port
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This Drive is NTFS formatted so it will not work on MAC. For MAC system you will need either FAT32 or MAC journal formatted.
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I don't think so. I initially installed the driver on my Macbook Air using the external optical drive, but then I later installed the more up to date driver from the website. For me, it worked much better with the newer driver (which I think was in beta at the time). So just go straight for that. Check the website for the driver: http://www.kensington.com/us/us/4491/K33974AM/usb-3-0-multi-display-adapter#.U69nKo1dUto
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Hi Antonio, Thank you for your question. We can confirm that the drive will work in a MacBook Air. Regards, Gaiacom