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> Well, to save precious local storage space of course. Apple's just being helpful here. Yeah, storage that was made precious by apple by not supporting an SD
by dingo_bat 11y ago
> Well, to save precious local storage space of course. Apple's just being helpful here.
Yeah, storage that was made precious by apple by not supporting an SD card slot. Very "helpful".
- tim333 11y agoIt could be helpful if they asked you first so you could back your stuff up to an external hard drive first.
- oarsinsync 11y agoThis isn't about a lack of expandable storage (all Macs have at least one USB port, some come with SD card slots), but rather that a lot of Macs come with very small SSDs. I can totally see how this might have seemed like a good idea. Shame it's just... not.
- dingo_bat 11y agoI was kinda assuming the iphone here. Didn't think the app on a desktop OS would show that behavior. Is this true? Do people really run out of space on laptops and desktops due to photos? I just checked the apple website and it seems you're right. 3 out of the 5 available Macbook pro variants have <= 256GB storage.
- oarsinsync 11y ago> I had just explained to Amber that 122 GB of music files were missing from my laptop This is very much about a laptop rather than a phone. And yep, I'm also suffering from this. I've got a 2010 MacBook Air with 256GB storage. I'm down to 10GB free space and struggling to decide how to cope with the now 160GB Photos library.
- JadeNB 11y agoI think that delinka (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11635126) was being sarcastic (as evidenced by the next paragraph beginning "But seriously …").
- JimDabell 11y ago> Yeah, storage that was made precious by apple by not supporting an SD card slot. This is an article about music in iTunes on a laptop. Apple sells laptops with SD card slots.
- dingo_bat 11y agoYeah I kind of just assumed that it was talking about phones. Can't imagine running out of space for photos on a laptop.