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by yurishimo 594 days ago
It'll be interesting to see the reaction of tech commentators about this. So many people have been screaming at Apple to increase the base RAM and stop price gouging their customers on memory upgrades. If Apple Intelligence is the excuse the hardware team needed to get the bean counters on board, I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth!
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sroussey 594 days ago
So we can scream about the lousy base storage, which is the same as my phone. Yikes.
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criddell 594 days ago
It wouldn't surprise me if people typically use more storage on their phone than their computer. The phone should probably have a higher base storage than the base storage of their laptops.
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opdahl 593 days ago
Extremely interesting point. My initial reaction to your comment is that it is a crazy thing to say, but the more I think about it the more I agree with you. On my phone is where I have tons of 4k 30/60FPS videos, high resolution photos (with live), and videos downloaded on Netflix and YouTube.

On my Mac I don't have any of these things, it's mostly for programming and some packages. I'm almost always connected to Wi-Fi (except on planes) so I don't really need any photos or videos.

The only people that I see have high storage requirements on Macs are probably video/media creators? As a programmer I'm totally fine with 512GB, but could probably live with 256GB if I wanted to be super lean.

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