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I’m always confused as to why people are so paranoid about storage size. I got the base MacBook Air and an external 2TB drive for cheap. Super fast and I never worry about anything - I didn’t even manage to get up to 50% of my 256GB drive.


I agree with your sentiment but I feel like many people just don't like the idea of carrying around dongles/cables/hdds/etc with their laptops.


Especially if you value the Apple aesthetic, where there can be only 1 button, 1 port, and everything has to be as thin as possible.


There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.


I mean have you noticed how bad streaming services have gotten...


There are a bunch of large storage needs that macOS does not let you put on an external drive, like your synced Photos library and iMessage history.


Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345




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