I have a hard time shelling out $300 for 256GB. You can get a Crucial M4 512GB for around $280. These are very good SSDs.
Is anyone else as confused as me?
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Is anyone else as confused as me?
At first I thought he missed the part where this thread is about the rMBP and that he was talking about the 256GB SSD BTO upgrade for the cMBP, but then I went and checked and the 256GB SSD BTO upgrade isn't even 300$, it's 400$.
Then yes, I'm as confused as you.
I think you should make a list of the things that are normally sitting on your computer's harddrive that you find you access most of the time.
I was actually in the same predicament as you when I was choosing my first SSD between 128 and 256. I have been using a 256 GB for the last two years and it's never really been a problem. My use consists of about 46 GB of music, 3 GB of photos, and about 8 GB of apps (which includes Diablo 3). Of course theres other space being taken up such as the OS I believe is around 15-20 GB.
If money was tight, I'd be okay with a 128 GB because external storage is so much cheaper and not everything is necessarily needed to be on me 24/7. I'm actually not sure how people fill up these drives so fast, maybe it's torrenting movies or something. Just my own opinion and use case scenario, hope it helps.
I was actually in the same predicament as you when I was choosing my first SSD between 128 and 256. I have been using a 256 GB for the last two years and it's never really been a problem. My use consists of about 46 GB of music, 3 GB of photos, and about 8 GB of apps (which includes Diablo 3). Of course theres other space being taken up such as the OS I believe is around 15-20 GB.
If money was tight, I'd be okay with a 128 GB because external storage is so much cheaper and not everything is necessarily needed to be on me 24/7. I'm actually not sure how people fill up these drives so fast, maybe it's torrenting movies or something. Just my own opinion and use case scenario, hope it helps.