I just bought a used mid-2012 MacBook Air to replace the early-2014 model my dog killed but the battery life is terrible comparatively.
Can I take the battery out of the 2014 and use it in the 2012 safely?
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Related Solutions
No, The Early 2014 MacBook Air has Thunderbolt 1 and therefore DisplayPort 1.1.
Source : Apple Support Page
It doesn't work
My Pentalobe and Torx bits arrived today and I tried swapping the drives. When I put the 256 GB drive in my Macbook Pro, it doesn't boot and displays this image
I tried holding down opt to boot to a usb drive and do a fresh install of Mavericks on the drive.
When I attempt to boot from the USB drive, the crossed out circle image is displayed again.
I've also tried holding down shift during boot to boot into safe mode. The neutral gray screen displays for a longer time, but eventually the crossed out circle appears again.
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Best Answer
Yes. According to iFixit, all 2010 through 2017 MacBook Air's use the same battery:
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-Late-2010-to-2017-Replacement-Battery/IF188-113-2
That's assuming we are talking about the 13". If you are talking about an 11", that changes things.