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Dealing in giant gigs of "adaptive" wallpapers in the sealed volume, seemingly just to make you have to upgrade SSDs, was it for me. Some of the included wallp

by cma 6y ago

Dealing in giant gigs of "adaptive" wallpapers in the sealed volume, seemingly just to make you have to upgrade SSDs, was it for me. Some of the included wallpapers are nearly 1GB in size individually, and to remove them you have to do all kinds of stuff only for it to be added back again on update.

GekkePrutser 6y ago
Yeah I noticed that too. I'm always struggling with Space (my work only gave me a 128G MacBook :S ), and using DiskInventoryX I found that these wallpapers occupied a non-trivial amount of space. This is especially weird considering Apple has been pushing HEIF so much which is mainly intended to reduce space occupied by images, really they shouldn't be this large.
- smoldesu 6y ago
  It's especially concerning for developers, since this mentality is sadly spreading through the rest of the ecosystem. If your Mac has a 128 gig drive and you install xCode, you'll be left with a little over 20 gigs of free space.
  - lostmsu 6y ago
    To give some contrast Windows 10 + Visual Studio (not VS Code, but C# workload only) leaves about 15GB from 60GB primary SSD.
- codetrotter 6y ago
  My previous Mac was a 2018 model MacBook Air with 128GB SSD, and I soon discovered that 128GB was way too little. Even the 256GB I have in my 2020 model MacBook Pro M1 is a little bit on the short side tbh. I have a 1TB external m2 SSD with an USB-C enclosure, but I only use it when I really really need to because it’s still a bit of a drag to have it sitting on the side and taking up one of the two ports. If I could afford it I would probably go with 1TB internal storage. But even if I could afford it, I would then really really like to see such a MBP have 4 USB-C ports and not just 2.
  - smoldesu 6y ago
    Apple could pretty easily fix this by offering an M.2 slot in the Macbook. It's a shame they don't too: once the SSD dies in these Macs, they're dead forever. Not very "environmentally friendly" to me.
kevindong 6y ago
I just checked and the entirety of the wallpapers folder is 1.14 GB which admittedly is a lot bigger than I originally thought. /System/Library/Desktop Pictures
- cma 6y ago
  That's smaller than I remembered. Still, over 5% of your space is wasted on it after installing XCode on a 128GB.

by cma 6y ago

GekkePrutser 6y ago

Yeah I noticed that too. I'm always struggling with Space (my work only gave me a 128G MacBook :S ), and using DiskInventoryX I found that these wallpapers occupied a non-trivial amount of space. This is especially weird considering Apple has been pushing HEIF so much which is mainly intended to reduce space occupied by images, really they shouldn't be this large.

smoldesu 6y ago
It's especially concerning for developers, since this mentality is sadly spreading through the rest of the ecosystem. If your Mac has a 128 gig drive and you install xCode, you'll be left with a little over 20 gigs of free space.
- lostmsu 6y ago
  To give some contrast Windows 10 + Visual Studio (not VS Code, but C# workload only) leaves about 15GB from 60GB primary SSD.
codetrotter 6y ago
My previous Mac was a 2018 model MacBook Air with 128GB SSD, and I soon discovered that 128GB was way too little. Even the 256GB I have in my 2020 model MacBook Pro M1 is a little bit on the short side tbh. I have a 1TB external m2 SSD with an USB-C enclosure, but I only use it when I really really need to because it’s still a bit of a drag to have it sitting on the side and taking up one of the two ports. If I could afford it I would probably go with 1TB internal storage. But even if I could afford it, I would then really really like to see such a MBP have 4 USB-C ports and not just 2.
- smoldesu 6y ago
  Apple could pretty easily fix this by offering an M.2 slot in the Macbook. It's a shame they don't too: once the SSD dies in these Macs, they're dead forever. Not very "environmentally friendly" to me.

kevindong 6y ago

I just checked and the entirety of the wallpapers folder is 1.14 GB which admittedly is a lot bigger than I originally thought. /System/Library/Desktop Pictures

cma 6y ago
That's smaller than I remembered. Still, over 5% of your space is wasted on it after installing XCode on a 128GB.