MacBook Air with 128 GB SSD is sufficient

[sgtaylor5]

Title says it all.

I got rid of my 13 GB of music because I had listened to it for too long (I’m using Musi to listen to YouTube Music on my iPhone, which is a great app, by the way). I only have 11 gigs of documents. All of my installers are on a flash drive.

I did change the 128 for a 256, but I found I didn’t need the extra space. So I went back.

 

[Juicy Box]

My wife daily uses a MacBook Air with only 64 GB of storage.

She loves it, she also has a work provided laptop that she's forced to use, it is much newer but she hates it. Even though it's a lot newer, it's slower, it's bigger, it's heavier, and the battery lasts a fraction of the time that her aging MacBook Air lasts.

 

[Corefile]

My wife daily uses a MacBook Air with only 64 GB of storage.

She loves it, she also has a work provided laptop that she's forced to use, it is much newer but she hates it. Even though it's a lot newer, it's slower, it's bigger, it's heavier, and the battery lasts a fraction of the time that her aging MacBook Air lasts.

Probably noisier too.

I have an old MBA which had 128GB which was plenty. I use network storage for stuff that is permanent and don't store it locally which really makes no sense to me.

 

[Feek]

MacBook Air with 128 GB SSD is sufficient

.. for some people.

Not me.

 

[smirking]

Title says it all.

OMG, but how can you even use your computer? You must need to compensate and have about 8... Terabytes of RAM to survive like this. 😝

This is a joke in case anyone can't tell. Suggesting that plenty of people do OK on base spec machines often fetches you a lot of aggrieved and sometimes unbelieving responses.

 

[Juicy Box]

.. for some people.

Not me.

Obviously not for everyone.

I don't think that was the point of the OP.

My wife can use a 64GB MBA and not worry about storage. I was debating whether to get the 1TB or 2TB SSD option for my most recent Mac purchase, but could probably get away with 512GB if I offload data on other Macs and/or external storage. I have one Mac with over 18TBs of internal storage.

Everyone's storage needs are different, and sometimes vary from one device to another.

There are often many posts complaining about how small new Macs' base model storage is, and while it is too small for some, they always have the option to get larger storage. If Apple increases the storage of the base model, then people like my wife would be forced to pay for storage they wouldn't use if they want a new Mac. Not sure if that is what the OP was referring too, but that is how I interpreted it.

The same goes with RAM.

 

[Basic75]

There are often many posts complaining about how small new Macs' base model storage is, and while it is too small for some, they always have the option to get larger storage.

The real problem here are the inflated prices Apple charges for additional storage.

 

[sgtaylor5]

.. for some people.

Not me.

That’s the entire point!