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The fact that we are still seeing 128GB non-upgradeable SSD’s on a base-level Mac is insanity. For any poor soul who has had to do mobile development work on o

The fact that we are still seeing 128GB non-upgradeable SSD’s on a base-level Mac is insanity. For any poor soul who has had to do mobile development work on one of these, the ‘you are low on risk space’ notification is like a spectre that haunts dreams. The environmental impact alone of non-upgradeable units is a serious issue in my eyes. Previous Macs have lasted me up to 8 years or so with nice and consistent upgrades over the years. The small amount of thinness or whatever it is has been the trade off is not worth it. We’ve lost the exterior battery button, we’ve lost MagSafe, the butterfly keyboards have had scathing reviews at best, and, in what seems like the most open statement of ‘we’re not even the same company any more’, they’ve even removed lost the trademark glowing Apple on the back. It has moved beyond the point where I need to draw the line and will be building the most compatible hackintosh I can as my next laptop.

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kristianp 8y ago
It's not exactly a development machine, with a 7W processor. But if you want to do dev on one, you can buy one with a 256GB (or more?) SDD.
- lostgame 8y ago
  I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase, and thusly, without the ability to upgrade, and with asinine prices from Apple for their SSD’s instead of about half that for a very nice quality SSD of the same capacity, I’d prefer to buy a baseline 8GB/128GB unit and upgrade it myself for 1/3rd of the price like I have for every other single Mac I’ve bought in my 15+ years of purchasing them. Furthermore, a MacBook Pro, which one could certainly call a development machine, still starts with a baseline, non-upgradeable 128GB unit. Virtually no ‘pro’ task, Image Editing, Software Develoment, Video Editing, Audio Editing, that Macs have typically and historically been used for, are suited to these 128GB drives and create machines that need to be thrown out and add to e-waste instead of having any meaningful longevity. I know this because I do these types of tasks all the time, and was forced into a 2017 13” MBP with a 128GB SSD and paltry 8GB of RAM earlier this year due to having it given to me as a work machine. Using it was an unpleasant experience unlike any computer I’d used, much less a Mac. And why? For aesthetic purposes? For greed/profit? What’s the use of their ‘all-aluminum’ eco-friendly goals, if they create machines that intentionally have a 3-4 year shelf life baked into them? It’s mind-boggling. We pay a premium for Apple devices, and more and more, especially as the prices seem to constantly be creeping upwards at this point, the conscessions we need to make to use them have become far greater than the benefits. RIP Apple computers. Hello, Apple, Inc.
  - romwell 8y ago
    >I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase Hahaha, my Acer laptop from 2008 had 160GB storage space, and it was not much by the standards of the time. So no, we're still not back to 2008-level storage space needs on a laptop.
    - lostgame 8y ago
      But that Acer laptop from 2008 would no doubt let you upgrade the RAM and HDD, which is my overall point. Apple has turned their products from some of the most high-class computers and devices on the planet, to, it seems, greed and drivel.
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kristianp 8y ago

It's not exactly a development machine, with a 7W processor. But if you want to do dev on one, you can buy one with a 256GB (or more?) SDD.

lostgame 8y ago
I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase, and thusly, without the ability to upgrade, and with asinine prices from Apple for their SSD’s instead of about half that for a very nice quality SSD of the same capacity, I’d prefer to buy a baseline 8GB/128GB unit and upgrade it myself for 1/3rd of the price like I have for every other single Mac I’ve bought in my 15+ years of purchasing them. Furthermore, a MacBook Pro, which one could certainly call a development machine, still starts with a baseline, non-upgradeable 128GB unit. Virtually no ‘pro’ task, Image Editing, Software Develoment, Video Editing, Audio Editing, that Macs have typically and historically been used for, are suited to these 128GB drives and create machines that need to be thrown out and add to e-waste instead of having any meaningful longevity. I know this because I do these types of tasks all the time, and was forced into a 2017 13” MBP with a 128GB SSD and paltry 8GB of RAM earlier this year due to having it given to me as a work machine. Using it was an unpleasant experience unlike any computer I’d used, much less a Mac. And why? For aesthetic purposes? For greed/profit? What’s the use of their ‘all-aluminum’ eco-friendly goals, if they create machines that intentionally have a 3-4 year shelf life baked into them? It’s mind-boggling. We pay a premium for Apple devices, and more and more, especially as the prices seem to constantly be creeping upwards at this point, the conscessions we need to make to use them have become far greater than the benefits. RIP Apple computers. Hello, Apple, Inc.
- romwell 8y ago
  >I think you’re missing my point that as time goes by, the need for storage space has a tendency to increase Hahaha, my Acer laptop from 2008 had 160GB storage space, and it was not much by the standards of the time. So no, we're still not back to 2008-level storage space needs on a laptop.
  - lostgame 8y ago
    But that Acer laptop from 2008 would no doubt let you upgrade the RAM and HDD, which is my overall point. Apple has turned their products from some of the most high-class computers and devices on the planet, to, it seems, greed and drivel.
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