Re:Why the M2 is more advanced that it seemed
by MBCook on Monday January 15, 2024 @04:28PM
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While I think it’s dumb to sell 8GB devices, I’m coming to the conclusion 256GB may not be a problem for normal people.
If your pictures are in iCloud or Google photos, your music is streamed, and other stuff is in iCloud or Google drive or whatever so most people need a ton of space these days?
I’m not arguing Apple’s RAM/storage prices are sane. They’re not. But with so much in the cloud or just being done in the browser instead of a large downloaded app i’m not sure normal users really benefit.
Paying for cloud storage may be a better deal, especially since I suspect the cloud is less likely to randomly lose data than if you forget your laptop somewhere or break it without a backup.
If you want to do video editing or a lot of programming that’s probably not gonna work. But if you’re mostly going to do “office task“ kind of things of typing and surfing and listening to music or watching YouTube maybe 256 GB isn’t so bad.
Base configuration should still be 16/512 in my opinion. But I’m not sure it’s as bad as it would’ve been 10 years ago to go low on storage.
If your pictures are in iCloud or Google photos, your music is streamed, and other stuff is in iCloud or Google drive or whatever so most people need a ton of space these days?
I’m not arguing Apple’s RAM/storage prices are sane. They’re not. But with so much in the cloud or just being done in the browser instead of a large downloaded app i’m not sure normal users really benefit.
Paying for cloud storage may be a better deal, especially since I suspect the cloud is less likely to randomly lose data than if you forget your laptop somewhere or break it without a backup.
If you want to do video editing or a lot of programming that’s probably not gonna work. But if you’re mostly going to do “office task“ kind of things of typing and surfing and listening to music or watching YouTube maybe 256 GB isn’t so bad.
Base configuration should still be 16/512 in my opinion. But I’m not sure it’s as bad as it would’ve been 10 years ago to go low on storage.