I despise the Fusion drives.
The simple truth is it's not necessary for them to exist. Flash memory is cheap enough now that Apple can provide these storage amounts with pure SSD and still make decent profit on it.
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Apple Drops Prices on High-End Storage Upgrades for iMac, iMac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, and Mac Pro
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I despise the Fusion drives.
The simple truth is it's not necessary for them to exist. Flash memory is cheap enough now that Apple can provide these storage amounts with pure SSD and still make decent profit on it.
Well golly gee. Maybe they realized that(big shock incoming) that consumers don’t want to sell kidneys for SSD storage.
Nice. I definitely wanted a 1T SSD when I'm ready to order my next iMac. Every little price reduction helps. No more spinning boot drives for me.
well that sux.. just bought a MBP with the other prices.
(kidding— i got 500GB SSD .. price stayed the same )
(kidding— i got 500GB SSD .. price stayed the same )
It's not that I don't believe you, but I'd like to know where can I check if the memory Apple uses is SLC, MLC, TLC or QLC.
Mainly because Apple doesn't give you the option of disc replacement on most of the computers where the storage chips are soldered on the mother board. And I am one of those who can hold a computer for 10 years or more.
i thought it was nice. if they offered it in macbooks i would've jumped on that years ago!
Take it apart and read the chips, that's the most reliable method. Or look at a teardown, though there may be supply variations. A rough way is to compare the performance against contemporaneous SSDs. Apple seems to use a lot of Samsung, you can tell from the firmware versions, and the speeds match the PRO models.
That’s what I said in the first comment.
After reading that report describing how Ive missed meetings, worked outside of Apple and how couldn’t provide feedback when designers needed it on the iPhone X, it looks as at best the designs were “approved” but were not his direct creation. He basically retired some time ago.
Prices don’t drop $200 in a day. Apple always had a very big margin on memory upgrades.
He’s a designer who is not in charge of memory upgrade prices. If it’s somehow linked to him then very indirectly trough structural changes inside Apple.
So far it seems to be a good thing. Price cuts, silently upgraded Macs, talks about redesigned MacBook keyboard...
Me, too. Mine was delivered on June 17th with 16GB RAM, and a 512GB SSD. Pricey, but totally worth it, since my old one was a 5400 RMP spinner with 8GB RAM.
And why would they remove Fusion Drives? I agree that they should never come as the default option. But NVMe/PCI-Express SSD's are expensive when it comes to price per GB/TB. Some users needs a lot of storage, and for many it's just not cost-effective to store large files and libraries on SSD storage due to this pris per GB/TB.
Apple's Fusion Drivers are really great when it comes to using the SSD storage as cache for the hard drive. So for many people that requires large amount of space it would be much better to have a Apple Fusion drive with 256/512GB SSD + 2 TB++ HDD and have macOS handle the caching.
I see no reason for Apple to get rid of it. But it should become more flexible in-terms of configuration, let the user decide how much SSD cache storage and how much HDD storage they want in their Fusion Drive.
Agreed. Desktops should come with 500GB SSD standard and laptops 250GB SSD standard.
Indeed but don't forget the employee paid to unpack the ssd, wield it to the motherboard manually and close the computer... That's hand made craftsmanship... It's normal it cost $$$
Curious if they believe this will improve sales figures. A small change here may increase sales enough to not warrant any other price drops though... may just be my opinion, but it always seems to be more of a testing the waters change like this to see what consumers do.
Will be interesting to see if we see any changes around pricing for iPads and their storage options (or any other product - general pricing strategy).
Will be interesting to see if we see any changes around pricing for iPads and their storage options (or any other product - general pricing strategy).
Interesting... all the upgrades after 500GB for the 15" i7 MacBook Pro are the same cost as 256GB in the Military/Veterans Store. The i9 lists them all as no additional cost. In fact, all MacBook Air and Pro Models listed does this. Must be an error.
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Omg this is like a Helen Keller level breakthrough with Apple. Slowly they might see the light.