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I have a MacBook air with a 128GB SSD (I was not involved in this purchase decision :). Upgrade to Big Sur would fail repeatedly without any error message. It w
by perryizgr8 5y ago
I have a MacBook air with a 128GB SSD (I was not involved in this purchase decision :). Upgrade to Big Sur would fail repeatedly without any error message. It would do all the rituals (including gigabytes of downloading), and pretend to reboot. After the reboot, nothing has changed!
It was a good 3-4 tries later I thought to free up the disk a bit and then the upgrade went through.
I think they can do a better job of surfacing error messages to the user. Insufficient disk space is a basic situation I would expect them to have a proper error for.
- whywhywhywhy 5y agoMy work bought everyone the 128 models too. It’s barely usable as a machine and very difficult to keep more than 5GB free, I know most Mac advocates will never know this because they don’t buy base models but anyone who has had to use one of these can tell you it’s a complete nightmare and the whole Mac experience begins to fall apart. Either they should have modified and shrank the OS for those models or shouldn’t have shipped such a bad model that only exists to milk people to buy the next one up
- swiley 5y ago128GB sounds like plenty for Alpine or Debian but way too small for OSX. I'm surprised Apple sells computers with non replaceable storage that small.