Cheapest new 1TB MacBook you can buy – 2017 MacBook Air to 1TB NVMe adapter

Large capacity MacBooks are extremely expensive and non upgradeable. Therefore we look to slightly older MacBooks to find the ability to have cheap high capacity computers. MacBook Air 2017s are still sold as new in 2019 and might be a worthwhile investment.

This is a tutorial that shows how to upgrade a 2017 MacBook Air to 500GB, 1TB or even 2TB using NVMe SSDs and a NVMe adapter.

This upgrade is possible because Apple introduced NVMe support in macOS Mojave. It applies to MacBook Airs mid 2015-2017 and also to the MacBook Pro mid 2015 which you could buy 2nd hand.