[filoleg]

> I make music and I'm getting into photography and film making. I prefer more space over being having to carry around an external SSD with me

The rest of your points are all valid, but for photography storage purposes you can just use SD cards. They take up virtually no space, and MBPs (since at least M1 gen) have an SD card slot built-in.

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I use SD cards, but I still copy my photos to my PC to back then up to the cloud and edit them.

If I had to use a Mac, I guess I'd change my workflow a bit.