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Superdrive
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It really depends if you forsee yourself using 512GB. According to your sig you have a 500GB SSD atm - how much of that have you used?
I have 512GB on my main machine and 256GB on my secondary. In reality, I could have gotten away with a 128GB on both and an external drive, but its nicer, IMO, having everything on one drive.
I have 512GB on my main machine and 256GB on my secondary. In reality, I could have gotten away with a 128GB on both and an external drive, but its nicer, IMO, having everything on one drive.
Superdrive
It will be my main/ only computer. I'm not even using 200g of my ssd, but I normally keep my computers for 3-4 years so I'm afraid I'll fill up a 256gig.
I could have went with a smaller ssd...but didn't want to run out of space.
Won't be getting anything until after Christmas so may wait to see what the 2015 line up is, well depending on when they announce it.
It will be my main/ only computer. I'm not even using 200g of my ssd, but I normally keep my computers for 3-4 years so I'm afraid I'll fill up a 256gig.
I could have went with a smaller ssd...but didn't want to run out of space.
Won't be getting anything until after Christmas so may wait to see what the 2015 line up is, well depending on when they announce it.
Nonsense. Haven't you heard of cleaning up your files? You can delete files you don't need anymore and move the ones you rarely use to an external drive.
You talk as if your storage needs can only stay the same or increase. Not true at all.
And motrek runs off at the mouth again
Lou
LOL. It does seem to take quite a bit of effort to convince some people that if they can't store every single song, video, movie, picture, etc. they've ever come across on their internal drive, that doesn't necessarily mean the computer is broken.
Guess I'm dating myself, but I grew up with hard drives that did not have near-infinite storage capacity. Offloading infrequently used data was a fact of life. Floppies, then CDs, then DVDs, now external drives...
^^^^Bet I'm older than you My first HDD (an external SCSI Device) attached to my Mac Plus, was a Conner 100MB (MB not GB). Cost me $800.00, and I thought I had the world. Little did I know
Lou
My first HDD (an external SCSI Device) attached to my Mac Plus, was a Conner 100MB (MB not GB). Cost me $800.00, and I thought I had the world. Little did I knowLou
^^^^Bet I'm older than you
Lou
Sounds like the same era. My first hard drive came with my Mac SE and was 20MB. I could hardly believe it stored almost 14 floppies worth of data.
Superdrive
I know my computer isn't broken. Upgraded to a ssd because my hard drive was beach ball spinning crazy. Getting a MacBook Air for work, but it'll be my only computer and don't want to deal with have this and that on separate drives.
But yes I lived in the era of floppy disk as well...granted probably at the end of the era, but I was there
I know my computer isn't broken. Upgraded to a ssd because my hard drive was beach ball spinning crazy. Getting a MacBook Air for work, but it'll be my only computer and don't want to deal with have this and that on separate drives.
But yes I lived in the era of floppy disk as well...granted probably at the end of the era, but I was there
LOL. It does seem to take quite a bit of effort to convince some people that if they can't store every single song, video, movie, picture, etc. they've ever come across on their internal drive, that doesn't necessarily mean the computer is broken.
Guess I'm dating myself, but I grew up with hard drives that did not have near-infinite storage capacity. Offloading infrequently used data was a fact of life. Floppies, then CDs, then DVDs, now external drives...
No matter how old I get, I prefer to have everything on my SSD. My digital images are huge and it does not take long to fill a small drive so I MAXED out my Air with 512GB SSD and 8GB RAM.
No regrets
I assume Apple uses the same drive internals as the cheap models you can buy on Amazon. It's not like Apple has their own optical drive factory. Maybe the enclosure they put it in helps dampen some noise but probably not very much.
