Why is there a Macbook Air with 64GB of storage

[tardman91]

I just ordered one for my wife yesterday. I was tossing around the 128 vs 64 thing in my head for a while, but ultimately decided on the 64. For one, my wife's music library is only about 1 gig, and she deletes songs once she gets tired of listening to them. She also doesn't have a lot of photos she's going to store on there. She mainly uses it for web and email and school work. We went with the 11" air over the pro because she plans on toting it back and forth to her graduate classes. And the $999 price point is sweet. Especially getting if for $950 on Amazon with no sales tax and overnight shipping!

 

[wrinkster22]

according to the people who has an ipad at the ipad forum, they are having a major buyer remorse. The intrinsic value of that thing really diminishes exponentially.

64GB is the size of an iphone, not a laptop, WAKE UP!!!

my neighbour has business trips several times a month. He has a powerful computer at his main office but when he is on the go he does not need that much. He has no photos, no music, no videos/tv shows.
Believe me 64gb can hold a lot of spreadsheets

 

[Retops]

I use my MBA version 1 (80gb) for all my college teaching, charity board work, and personal finance. I have about 10 gb of music, but no movies, games, etc. I do have all my powerpoints for the last 12 years, all my class notes and grades, lots of spreadsheets, folder after folder of PDFs, and I am no where near filling the hard drive. If I bought a new machine today, I'd probably get the bigger drive just for yucks, but I could easily fit everything into a 64gb.

 

[kulimer]

Umm...no?

The fact that apple is selling a laptop with 64GB disagrees with you. And it's selling quite well, for that matter.

Disregarding the iPhone, (this is the mba forum, after all) the baseline 64GB configuration is more than enough, as most people who have posted here have said.

People use up 64GB on their iphones for music and apps.

You really aren't USING or INSTALLING anything on your laptop if you have 64GB. You are constantly fighting for hard drive space between your software and your music in itunes.

Unless you want to carry an extra external hard drive.

 

[glen e]

People use up 64GB on their iphones for music and apps.

You really aren't USING or INSTALLING anything on your laptop if you have 64GB. You are constantly fighting for hard drive space between your software and your music in itunes.

Unless you want to carry an extra external hard drive.

Many of us don't see the need to carry 3000 tunes or 12 movies around with us...64 works fine for business data....

 

[snorkelman]

People use up 64GB on their iphones for music and apps.

You really aren't USING or INSTALLING anything on your laptop if you have 64GB. You are constantly fighting for hard drive space between your software and your music in itunes.

Sorry here's me thinking it was a laptop, not a portable entertainment system

for business use it can be more than sufficient I had no issues on the 64GB 2010, still eating up less than 40GB on the 2011 128GB base 13.

That's with ALL the apps I use at work installed

and all the end user and tech manuals for the kit we install and service

and iso images of all the software we admin at clients sites

and full installed set of the access control suites our clients are using

the only thing not on the MBA is the actual site data/locking plans for those sites, and that's due to security considerations not lack of space.

movies and music is a bottomless pit, depending on size of individual collection you could argue no MBA is sufficient. Hell if I wanted to carry copies of every movie and album I own I'd be into terrabytes of storage, more than any laptop could cope with never mind an MBA.

 

[zap2]

People use up 64GB on their iphones for music and apps.

You really aren't USING or INSTALLING anything on your laptop if you have 64GB. You are constantly fighting for hard drive space between your software and your music in itunes.

Unless you want to carry an extra external hard drive.

Bold claim, don't try to define what everyone does with their computer. I have a 128GB SSD, but I have 50GB free and I could easily clearly enough space to use the 64GB by deleted my Spotify cache(and then just stream all my music)

But it's nice not to have to worry about space as much.

 

[LordVic]

People use up 64GB on their iphones for music and apps.

You really aren't USING or INSTALLING anything on your laptop if you have 64GB. You are constantly fighting for hard drive space between your software and your music in itunes.

Unless you want to carry an extra external hard drive.

But I already carry around my 20gigs of music.

in my ipod.

so why do i have to have it on my laptops hard drive as well? if i'm travelling somewhere and want music, i'm not pulling out my laptop just to listen to music. Thats what the ipod is for (or other assorted cheap PMP).

and as i said. at home, NAS box holds the media. i dont need it stored locally. I'm on the 64gb drive and i have 40gb free still! (with WoW installed). if i wanted to carry around my entire media collection thats on my networked storage, i'd need nearly a terrabyte hard drive on a laptop, and no macbook air would meet these needs

it's a laptop. not a portable entertainment centre.

 

[Phil A.]

I'm on the 64gb drive and i have 40gb free still! (with WoW installed). if i wanted to carry around my entire media collection thats on my networked storage, i'd need nearly a terrabyte hard drive on a laptop, and no macbook air would meet these needs

it's a laptop. not a portable entertainment centre.

Exactly - I've got a 64GB MBA and it's plenty of space for me: It's a secondary machine to my iMac and only stores documents I'm working on at the time when I'm away from my machine

 

[jamesryanbell]

what is the point of having this model; why not start off with 128gb ? What is the purpose and logic of having this model instead of just starting off with the highend macbook air 11inch

price.