[dep_b]

256GB is unworkable

[ShortStretto]

I and many others have zero need for more storage, this machine beats any non-oled windows laptop for screen at the pricerange, the CPU/GPU combo beats it on speed. Battery is a non-discussion (although my only windows laptop experience is work laptop, 4 hours on a good day).

Just buy more if you need it or cloud storage or a nas idk man, theres solutions.

Or buy windows, the choice is there.

[whizzter]

NAS or Cloud storage doesn't help much if your Xcode,node_modules,etc installs for a developer starts filling up the disk.

[Noaidi]

And this is where “right to repair” dies…

[trueismywork]

No. Right to repair dies with bad quality laptops windows manufacturers make.

[floundy]

My Mac has 256GB. Just checked, I’m using 90GB. I have a 500GB SSD always plugged in for Steam games.

Media goes on my RAID1 NAS. Whose boot drive is running on a 32GB SSD.

As long as I have enough space to install the programs I use I don’t see the need for more boot drive storage. Network and external storage are cheaper and more convenient.

[norman784]

On my work laptop I use only 80gb, I just need the corporate software (that is mostly cloud apps) and my dev environment (that is what takes the most space), here I disagree. Now for private use, I do agree.

[Yoric]

I code in Rust. I need more space than that :)

[s0sa]

For what use case? I doubt the target user for the air would need anything more than what USB 4 + external SSD can make up for.

[dep_b]

Running Xcode

You can use it as a glorified internet terminal with some light office apps within 256GB.

But it’s a pain in the ass to swap applications constantly, clear caches, delete large files and so on once you exceed those use cases.

512GB is a bit better, but then I shouldn’t have multiple toolchains or other large applications installed, multiple versions of Xcode, etcetera.

[tonyedgecombe]

Only for people who need more storage.

Also Apple likes to sell extra iCloud storage.

[saagarjha]

I work on it

[prmoustache]

I work with half of that on a VDI. Unless you are working on a single repo, you can always delete local repos once you have pushed your branch and you very rarely have to work on 50 repos at the same time.

[Noaidi]

And you can’t make it “workable“ since the hard drive is unplaceable.