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Do you think the new 13 inch Macbook Pro will still have a 128 GB SSD option or 256 as Standard?
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I can't see that happening, Apple being the company that starts with 16GB iPhones even in 2016. It's just not in their DNA.
Being chintzy on storage is annoying for people whose whole reason for getting a laptop is about data portability. Maybe 128GB is plenty for someone who's connected all the time but how about when you're not. Then suddenly it's about accessories, an external storage drive, maybe even an external optical drive... and then because of ever-vanishing ports, also a bunch of USB adapters. Stuff to lose and remember to pack. What's the point of switching to digital movies if you can't fit more than a couple of them onto your laptop for a long flight and still leave your regular setup in place?
I realize these are first world problems... but... this sort of stuff is what has slowly moved the satisfaction meter needle to "sticking w/ Apple but frustrated" level. I mean do they realize how cheap a 1TB drive is now? Their tone-deaf answer seems likeyl to be "so buy an external one".
128gb. Why? Because Apple likes to make a "cheap" (by Apple standards) entry level model. But to have anything long-standing or non-constraining, like the processor, ram, or ssd, you've got to buy the mid level model. There is a large jump in price from bare bones entry level to the mid level that people actually want to buy. It's the way they do things. Happy to leave them and would if I could but no windows laptops have a good trackpad. It's as simple as that.
128GB, as mentioned, Apple still offers the 16GB iPhone so they keep the lower sized model available.
Not for nothing, but other makers are still offering their products with the 128GB SSD. I've been looking at the SurfaceBook and its base model also contains a 128GB SSD. To be honest as I think about it, for a secondary machine or a machine that only needs to run office apps and what not, 128GB is more then enough.
Its only when you add a large music library, or want to video editing or run Lightroom, etc, etc, will you find the 128GB of storage inadequate.
Not for nothing, but other makers are still offering their products with the 128GB SSD. I've been looking at the SurfaceBook and its base model also contains a 128GB SSD. To be honest as I think about it, for a secondary machine or a machine that only needs to run office apps and what not, 128GB is more then enough.
Its only when you add a large music library, or want to video editing or run Lightroom, etc, etc, will you find the 128GB of storage inadequate.
It's also rumored that the 16GB iPhone is going away this time around...
I, too, would like to see 256gb as "the minimum".
But Apple ain't like that -- instead, they like offer a basic configuration and then gouge you for more $$$$ if you want upgrades.
That's why we have seen pitifully-low-end configurations.
Because they know that we can be squeezed for upgrade $$$$.
These days, I would consider 8gb of RAM and 256gb SSD storage to be "the bottom line" for every Mac.
Will we see it?
But Apple ain't like that -- instead, they like offer a basic configuration and then gouge you for more $$$$ if you want upgrades.
That's why we have seen pitifully-low-end configurations.
Because they know that we can be squeezed for upgrade $$$$.
These days, I would consider 8gb of RAM and 256gb SSD storage to be "the bottom line" for every Mac.
Will we see it?
I sure hope they start at 256GB. With the Macbook starting there, it is hard to call a system a "PRO" with only 128 GB.
I have a feeling they will move to 256GB baseline storage for the MacBook Pro. The current MacBook starts at 256 also. I do find it odd that your storage is halved when moving up to the 'Pro' line at this point...
I voted 256 GB but knowing Apple these days there's a good chance I'll be proven wrong. Looking back at when I purchased my late 2013 I'm extremely glad I didn't go with the base model 4 GB RAM and 128 GB SSD.
Well you can buy them configured with up to 1Tb of SSD what's your problem?? 4 lane PCIe connected ssd's are still very expensive. Not as much as Apple charge of course but you can't buy a laptop with one in from anyone else for much less than Apple charge.
If you want to buy a laptop made on the cheap Apple aren't for you. If you want legacy tech poorly crammed into a modern form factor Apple aren't for you. It's that simple. You may not like the direction that Apple have taken but that's your problem and the answer is simple buy something else.
It's possibly irrational that I've long argued it's no big deal Apple still having a low base storage for iPhones (in the face of people enraged that "less is still Apple's more" on those devices). And yet when it comes to SSD in laptops I have somehow come to expect that any cycle now 256GB will be the base option. Probably a factor of how I personally use the two different types of device. Meanwhile you're right regarding my options and I do configure up since the answer for me is still Apple.
I have a MacBook Air with 128GB and at one point I had the whole Adobe CC suite, Parallels with Windows 8 and a very large range of other software installed. It's amazing how much one can stuff into 128GB but, with SSDs being relatively cheap these days, there is not much excuse for anything less than 256.
The fusion drive could have been the standard config all these years but they decided to remove the data drive part and just keep the SSD part. Just keeping the SSD part would be fine and good if they made them larger to reflect lowering SSD market prices. But no. Every year is a lesson in profit creation and disappointment with a middle finger to the customer.
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