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> Forgot to mention the #1 benefit - replaceable HDD/SSD and upgradable RAM. Also this. I just bought a new 16" Macbook Pro because I just maxed out the SSD in
by westoque 7y ago
> Forgot to mention the #1 benefit - replaceable HDD/SSD and upgradable RAM.
Also this. I just bought a new 16" Macbook Pro because I just maxed out the SSD in my 2015 Macbook Pro due to all the Docker images and generally all the data that I have. It was running perfectly and I wouldn't even think about upgrading if the storage was upgradable.
The next best thing to buy an upgrade kit from iFixit and spend some precious time just to upgrade the SSD.
- lostgame 7y agoFortunately with the 2015 models, this is still an option. For anything past that - you’re just SOL. At this point, 2015 models are actually going for insane values second-hand; fans understand this may be the last great laptop Apple ever makes - from the ports (built-in HDMI and SD card slots!), to the keyboard, to the ability to replace the SSD post-market - people are already certainly catching on. I seriously shake my head every time I think about it. It blows my mind. Think about the environmental waste. :( Shameful.
- zelly 7y agoI don't know what people do with laptops with soldered-on <256GB SSDs. Just your OS and swap will take up half that. Your option is then to remote into some other machine to do your work, but you can't do that on the go without internet access, kind of defeating the point of having a laptop. Disk space is so important these days with Docker, node_modules, venv, bazel, etc. where every directory basically has its own OS. We all should have >10TB on laptops.
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