[filleokus]

I like fast SSD's as much as everyone else, but it's not like those disks are a slouch. 1.3 GB/s is still plenty fast, especially for those who are in the market for the Macbook Air.

It's probably however the first time, I can remember at least, where Apple downgraded a newer model in such an unequivocal way.

I mean newer CPU's have had different multicore/single core tradeoffs, the inclusion of a dedicated GPU have been removed in base models etc, and the endless discussion of ports (rip SD card slot etc) but I don't think we have ever seen something like this?

[lukifer]

> where Apple downgraded a newer model in such an unequivocal way

Also of note: the maximum SSD capacity dropped as well. Formerly the Air could be spec'd up to 1.5 TB, now 1 TB is the max.

[lostlogin]

The price for the 1.5 was truely ridiculous. It would be interesting to know how many they sold.

[lukifer]

I went for the 1.5TB, despite the storage upgrade being more than the computer itself. That storage point is my bare minimum to keep existing personal files (plus headroom); I was happy to pay it, it's a great machine. :D

[flukus]

This is annoyingly common with all manufacturers, 512GB is my bare minimum but to get that you have to upgrade a heap of other components. The Surface Laptop 2 for instance doubles in price to get to 512GB, you have to upgrade form 8 to 16 GB of RAM and from an i5 to i7. 1TB is only offered in the platinum version.

[symlinkk]

Jesus why not put your files on an external hard drive or in the cloud?

[morganvachon]

Not the OP, but I found I had to do some digital spring cleaning once I realized 1TB of cloud/external storage wasn't enough for everything I was holding on to. I had useless data and archives going back to 2001, most of which I'd forgotten I even had. Long story short, after a few weeks of off-and-on cleaning, I got my mess down to around 200GB of data and archives, of which about 40GB is "must keep". That 40GB, mostly photos I don't want to lose, is backed up in iCloud (I have a 50GB plan) and is on my iPhone (128GB version) for quick access, as well as backed up on a flash drive and a SD card that I keep at work and my mom's house respectively. The rest lives on my spinning 3TB drive, which also houses about 1.5TB of Steam and GoG games so I don't have to re-download when I wipe and reinstall Windows on my gaming PC.

I could probably whittle that 200GB down to just over the 40GB "must keep" stuff, but I like having quick access to various operating system ISO and image files, Raspberry Pi images and backups, rips of my physical CDs, and various other project-related things. The bulk of what I deleted was forgotten detritus, left over crap from years of digital hoarding that served no purpose today. I'll probably purge again in a few years once all my hardware has changed and old OS and driver related stuff is once again obsolete.

[lostlogin]

If it’s photos that take up the space and you use photos.app it’s awful. I have no idea what the apple approved solution to this is.

I find that both iOS and the Mac handle large libraries badly. Mine is 110k approximately and it’s ugly. I had the library in a NAS and this was a great way of corrupting it.

[lukifer]

Why would I want to carry around another device to dangle off the side, or worse, have to futz with tethering or spotty wi-fi or latency? I'd much rather have all my stuff (music in particular) consolidated and instantly on tap.

[jonknee]

I wonder if they sold more 1.5TB MBAs or gold watches?

[raverbashing]

1TB is plenty for the MBAir cases

Especially now that there is "the cloud" (and external hard drives)