The only person posting here that appears to me to be irresponsible and stupid is - Well, why don't you guess?
Name calling is just your way of expressing yourself I guess.
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128 GB or 258 GB?
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The only person posting here that appears to me to be irresponsible and stupid is - Well, why don't you guess?
Name calling is just your way of expressing yourself I guess.
Lou
OP, where did you find a 258 option? I wish I could have gotten 2 extra gigs with my purchase.
I recommend the 256 tho. That way you will be able to future proof your computer and keep it for 5+ years. 5 years from now, you won't have regretted your decision.
I recommend the 256 tho. That way you will be able to future proof your computer and keep it for 5+ years. 5 years from now, you won't have regretted your decision.
You can always expand your storage with any sort of external HDD. I got the 256GB and I am looking at Transcend's jetdrive to give me more space.
If money is tight now or you just don't want to spend the extra because you really don't think you will need it then get the 128GB. Adding more storage space is not that big of a deal and there are several options for external HDD depending on how much storage space you need, how much more bulk you want to pack around, etc.
If money is tight now or you just don't want to spend the extra because you really don't think you will need it then get the 128GB. Adding more storage space is not that big of a deal and there are several options for external HDD depending on how much storage space you need, how much more bulk you want to pack around, etc.
I have the 128GB and I'm constantly running out of room. I mean, I would totally be fine with only 8-10 GBs more, but I will definitely get the 256 next time. In fact, I hope that's the default for the next refresh.
What do you guys keep on your computers?
I'm an app developer so I have XCode, Photoshop, etc. on my MBA. I also have every version of all my apps. I also have every photo I've ever taken with an iPhone in the last 6 years. I also have a few gigs of music and miscellaneous files.
With all of this stuff I am still only using about half of my 128GB drive.
You must be thinking of hard drives. MBAs have SSDs. Less capacity but much faster, and smaller. Most people are happy to make the trade-off.
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Actually, we had a good reason behind it. He's suggesting that, if possible, get the most you can. Because it's a primary computer. Will he need it all? Maybe not, but he has the option to later on down the road. It's not necessarily superfluous. Get the best you can afford within reason. I happened to get a base line MBA but upgraded the SSD. And it's lovely not having to worry about internal storage.
Yes, of course nicer things are nicer.
I've seen a lot of posts from a lot of people on these forums that come down to, "if you can afford it, why NOT buy [the product or upgrade in question]?!"
I find this sort of advice depressing because I know people who do spend whatever money they currently have on whatever thing they're currently buying, be it a car, house, laptop, etc. They end up with nice things but they save very little money and are often stressed out about their finances and are miserable.
I think if more people made purchasing decisions according to their needs vs. what they can afford, they'd lead happier lives.
Like I said before, there are definitely legitimate reasons why one might NEED more than 128GB of internal storage, but I imagine the vast majority of people don't. It's very easy to get a small external drive with huge storage capacity and use it to store infrequently-used files.
I suspect a lot of cases of people posting to this thread saying they need at least 500GB (or whatever huge amount) of storage are really cases of people not being aware of what's taking up space on their drive--I bet that if they ran a utility like Disk Inventory X, they would find that a lot of space was being taken up by files they don't need, don't want, didn't realize they still had, etc. etc.
I have 128gb ssd in my MacBook Pro and don't personally need more. Movies are either streaming subscription or in the cloud (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Instant, Vudu, etc), my music is in the cloud as well as copied on a small external drive, same with my digital pictures. I don't play games on my computer so I don't need the extra space for that.
Every person varies, of course, but 128gb works fine for me.
Every person varies, of course, but 128gb works fine for me.
BTW -- one caveat to this is if you use iTunes to play music/videos or iPhoto to manage your photos. I have used both in the past and I recall that Apple makes it difficult-to-impossible to split your music/photos/videos across drives. So you can't simply copy the old photos or songs that you only sorta want to keep to an external drive. The only elegant solution is to have a bigger main/internal drive for these programs.
Maybe I'm wrong about this and there's a way to do it with these programs. Either way, there are other programs that don't have such a limitation.
OK, looked up usage on our old MBA with 64GB SSD, with usage probably similar to what the OP is doing. Its running Mavericks. It has 19GB free out of 60GB available. It has 1.8GB used for Audio (I believe the OP wasn't using his MBA for music) and 3GB for Photos.
If I had "future-proofed" the system by buying it with the 128GB SSD (and 4GB of RAM, it has 2) I would have been out more money with nothing really to show for it. Not everyone needs a fully optioned system.
If I had "future-proofed" the system by buying it with the 128GB SSD (and 4GB of RAM, it has 2) I would have been out more money with nothing really to show for it. Not everyone needs a fully optioned system.
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128gb is enough for me only because I store everything on my Lacie 2big on my mac mini server. Everything I do is on there when I am at home. But if this is going to be your main computer it never hurts to have more than have less. just my 2cents... Also I think memory is more important just to have only because you won't be able to upgrade it "IF" you needed it and its not that expensive to upgrade when your going to spend x amount of $. Theres so many options of having more hdd space.
Ended up taking the plunge! Since I have an iPad, I ultimately went with the 13 since it is going to be my only computer. So far so good. Screen will take some getting used to but it is much faster than my retina pro and I guess that has to do with not having to push that many pixels around.
Haha.... Congrats! Give yourself a few days to get accustomed to the screen size. I know that the the battery life of the MBA 13 is better and it has an SD card slot (both features are certainly valuable) but I'm finding that having the power of a full-sized OSX system in the size of an iPad is so useful and convenient. It's actually having me rethink the iPad... Maybe an iPad mini or 8" android tab might be a better complement to an 11" MBA.
Yea I had the same thoughts. If I got the 11, I would have wanted an iPad mini as well and my wife wouldn't have gone for that lol. I don't blame you on the size of the 11 being a full OS X system, I played with both sizes for a while before finally deciding. I am happy with the 13, but the 11 would have been sweet too. Can't go wrong either way.
128 is plenty , used expandrive and just store all your stuff on copy or dropbox.
capathy's purchase from another thread:
Guess he took his own advice, then changed his mind.
Lou
LOL. It is very hard to decide, imho I don't mind the 128GB SSD but I care more about the 8GB of RAM.
Nice to see you pay enough attention to me to call me out in two separate threads but as I stated in the other thread, the 256 will be for my wife for work related stuff. I did not magically go from using 50GB of storage to needing 256 overnight.
