I get what you're saying. To you it's not worth the price. No one on planet earth is going to argue that and win.
My point is if you don't feel the SSD/Fusion is a worth while upgrade then no upgrade must be worth it in your eyes. You said "fusion drives and SSDs provide much better of an experience".
So we are both in agreement that it's a much better experience. Now whether or not thats worth $200 to someone who is going to be using a computer for maybe 5 years, 365 days a week is an entirely different conversation. Remember this is macrumors so it's geared more toward people who want more cutting edge tech.
You don't get what I am saying as after your first three sentences you're back at it. It's not that I don't feel as though
ultimately SSD/Fusion is not a worthwhile upgrade, just that it is not a worthwhile upgrade
for me at this present time based on what I do. How can you realize that in your first few sentences and then immediately forget about it in the next? The reason I shared my opinions on the matter is because it pertains to the topic and yes, they are better and faster, but it's not a linear decision because it. costs. more. money. Therefore, just like anything else in life, paying money for what you may not want or need is where the decision occurs.
You may think, "well, if it is better and faster, how could you not want that!" which also ties in to the last bit that you posted here. Yes, we are both in agreement that SSDs or Fusion is a much better experience than a traditional mechanical drive. However, what does "traditional mechanical drive" translate to? For you, it seems to translate to a terrible experience, and for me, it translates to a more than adequate experience. This can still be improved upon, which is why, yes, I am aware that other internal solutions are both "better" and "faster" but not always at the cost of actual money and other sacrifices such as storage space.
You keep picking on $200 but the only reason I brought that up is because it is the entry BTO purchase amount to get off of mechanical for most Apple computers. That's only where it starts. If you want a Fusion, you're good to go - but again, you'd have to decide if its speed increases are worth that money to you based on how you feel about the speed of what a traditional mechanical drive offers. However, if you want the speed of a SSD, you're paying $200 just for that with a fraction of the storage you need if you are the user that needs to store a lot, and you then have to worry about other alternatives to storage if you need the larger internal amount that the stock mechanical drive offers. This means paying even more ridiculous Apple premiums for a larger SSD, or shelling out money for other external interfaced drives or resorting to subscription/payment based cloud or online storage.
No thanks. Not worth it for what I do. If anything, Fusion would be worth it, but again, I am not dissatisfied with the speeds of mechanical to consider paying the premium to jump to a SSD-like experience. I have a SSD in my notebook. It's great, but definitely unnecessary for me, and that's considering that I paid even less for it (although it is SATA compared to PCIe) 3 years ago in comparison to these BTO premiums.
