Storage is personal choice and you can buy a 1tb external for cheap, but 8 gigs memory hasn’t been enough in years in my opinion. You can’t upgrade memory later. All my stuff has had 16 gigs since 2012.
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What are you doing that makes 8GB is insufficient? For all but the most intense workflows, 8GB is ample...it certainly is for what OP described as their usage.
Offering my 2 cents. Me? I can simply cite Adobe for photos and videos and that’s plenty to justify.
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Seriously.
While I agree (to a certain extent) with your original comment that 8 GB is and has been a bit of a low standard of RAM to be offered on baseline models of a high end laptop lineup, I have to point out that 8 GB of RAM still suffices for a great amount of users. Adobe by itself doesn’t justify needing 8GB of RAM, sure it helps but I’ve run Adobe photoshop on Macs with 8 GBs of RAM with no problem at all for editing.
You can do almost everything with 8 gigs, and you can also find that many things are slow as hell with only 8.
Can do vs fast and efficient. I’m not hindering my insanely fast cpu and solid state drive with only 8 gigs.
Arguably no, but it’s not like the pro isn’t virtually the same price as the air anyway - indeed looking at some sites that do price matching you can currently get the pro cheaper. However, advising that someone who is going to be doing office work plus social media browsing spend extra to upgrade to 16GB ram isn’t particularly good advice.
See above. The OP doesn’t mention any use of adobe apps (and certainly not to the point 8GB of RAM would become insufficient) so IMO that’s just advice that will leave OP more out of pocket than they need to be.
Yes, I think you're right. Prior to owning my MBP I had an ancient Dell computer which I'd had for 10-years. It had only 40GB storage and had become painfully slow. When I got rid of it and upgraded to my MacBook Pro I noticed an enormous difference!
That's fine. I'm also informing the OP that A) you can't decide later that 8 isn't enough. You can't upgrade. B) You may find 8 gigs is not enough despite what you think you'll use it for today.
This is a fine old thread, isn't it? All a case of horses for courses. 256GB has been fine for my 2015 MBP which I use for some common undemanding tasks. But on my PC I have a weakness for Steam games and those are space-eaters.
Well seems to me you are niche customer and as such if you want to carry 650 GB of files (of what and what for?), you have to pay extra $$ for 1 TB option. 256/512 combined with external HDD should be enough for most of customers/users.