Does anyone else find it crazy that the base SSD in the Air and MBP is still only 128 GB? The Air I can maybe understand, but for the MBP, it's ridiculous.
I have used a 128GB Macbook Pro for almost two years and only when I go nuts with Docker images do I approach my limit. My projects and saved content (books and images) are fine on an external drive and if I ever need one of my projects when I don’t have my external drive I can just clone the repo. Everything that you value needs to follow the 3-2-1 rule so anything that is even vaguely important can be retrieved from a cloud backup. I guess if I did not have network access it could be problematic but I have yet to be in such a scenario.
Of course it would be nice for Apple to lay off the price gouging but it by no means makes the device useless. I also reinstall my OS frequently and organize my data very deliberately so that takes away a lot of the decision-making that people try to avoid when using one big hard disk. I really only want MacOS and my applications on the device.
For the Air, I imagine it's because they assume people just watch YouTube all day and store everything in the cloud.
For the Pro, it's probably for corporations who want to save money on office laptops. I don't need 128GB for work, only for personal use. Some users would also choose the 128 GB model and fit their own 2TB Intel 660P with an adaptor... except oh no they can't, because the SSD is soldered on to the motherboard now.
