managing storage on new macbook pros

[scott7saunders]

Hey,

I an new to all this and have purchased a first macbook pro with retina today of which i love to bits - however, whats the best way of managing the storage space as the machine I have comes with 128SSD.

Obviously installing programs, using photos and music etc is going to cause this space to go very quickly - how do other users deal with this limited space ?

Thanks

Scott

 

[GGJstudios]

I an new to all this and have purchased a first macbook pro with retina today of which i love to bits - however, whats the best way of managing the storage space as the machine I have comes with 128SSD.

Obviously installing programs, using photos and music etc is going to cause this space to go very quickly - how do other users deal with this limited space ?

Keep apps and critical user files on the internal drive and use external drives for additional user files, including photos, videos, music, etc.

Freeing up drive space in Mac OS X

 

[scott7saunders]

thanks - I know its probably sounded obvious however I am a long term windows user who finally saw sense (and got a bonus at work)

 

[GGJstudios]

thanks - I know its probably sounded obvious however I am a long term windows user who finally saw sense (and got a bonus at work)

Welcome to the "dark side"!

 

[scott7saunders]

dark side ? hahaha

Honestly, I love this little mac- its only the 13 inch one however the quality of the machine, OSx and the screen is just mental!

I did have a rather snazzy Windows machine (2 months old) however had enough of the blue screen of crap and pap battery life so am selling it.

 

[GGJstudios]

dark side ? hahaha

Honestly, I love this little mac- its only the 13 inch one however the quality of the machine, OSx and the screen is just mental!

I did have a rather snazzy Windows machine (2 months old) however had enough of the blue screen of crap and pap battery life so am selling it.

Yep. I made the switch about 7 years ago and haven't missed Windows at all!

 

[Samuelsan2001]

Add an sd card

Hey,

I an new to all this and have purchased a first macbook pro with retina today of which i love to bits - however, whats the best way of managing the storage space as the machine I have comes with 128SSD.

Obviously installing programs, using photos and music etc is going to cause this space to go very quickly - how do other users deal with this limited space ?

Thanks

Scott

You can add an sd card with something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Jet...d=1425376043&sr=8-4&keywords=nifty+mini+drive

Use it for media files and you'll be golden....

 

[maflynn]

I'd recommend a portable external drive and use that store some of your larger files/folders such as iTunes.