New Mac Mini with M4

Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by xenospn on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @01:32PM (#41987143)

I’m always confused as to why people are so paranoid about storage size. I got the base MacBook Air and an external 2TB drive for cheap. Super fast and I never worry about anything - I didn’t even manage to get up to 50% of my 256GB drive.

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by birdgoose on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:05PM (#41987563)

I agree with your sentiment but I feel like many people just don't like the idea of carrying around dongles/cables/hdds/etc with their laptops.

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by chihuahua on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:12PM (#42019876)

Especially if you value the Apple aesthetic, where there can be only 1 button, 1 port, and everything has to be as thin as possible.

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by greenpresident on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @02:10PM (#41987617)

There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by heraldgeezer on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:09PM (#41989937)

I mean have you noticed how bad streaming services have gotten...

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by kalleboo on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @01:58AM (#41992240)

There are a bunch of large storage needs that macOS does not let you put on an external drive, like your synced Photos library and iMessage history.

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Re:New Mac Mini with M4 by apetrovic on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @07:19AM (#41993689)

Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345

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