16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by pgt on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:38PM (#21529250)

Companies do not act according to their morals: they act according to their incentives. And there is an incentive to sell more iCloud storage if SSDs are hard to swap.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by tachion on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:35PM (#21529860)

Except that when you don't have the disk space on your SSD to download the stuff from iCloud, the whole thing doesn't work. I think you've a conspiracy theory here.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by rbanffy on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:36PM (#21531015)

When you don't, the local files that haven't been accessed in some time are deleted and only a local alias is kept. Next time you need it, it'll be downloaded.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by manigandham on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:55PM (#21532046)

Almost every cloud service (icloud, dropbox, box, onedrive) now has on-demand access to files to download them when actually opened.

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Re:16-inch MacBook Pro by lonelappde on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:38PM (#21529887)

This is tinfoily. Making people happy to buy $2500-$4000 machines is a much bigger incentive than squeezing a little iCloud money.

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