Yeah I rely on iTunes (or rather, on Music and TV as it is now) to remember which files are where. If I need to go searching, generally use Spotlight.
It is examples like this that makes me look at the whole thing about the Studio having too limited space as mostly a nothing burger. I say mostly because there are programs that will not run unless they are in an application folder (and prefer the main one rather than the user one). Of the 307.14 GB on my SSD 158.51 GB is taken up by Applications in the User folder (I have all documents on an external hard drive)
wow... okay that's impressive...Yeah I rely on iTunes (or rather, on Music and TV as it is now) to remember which files are where. If I need to go searching, generally use Spotlight.
The other thing I do is use custom icons for the drives on the desktop - to indicate what media type is on which.
But I've been doing it like this for years, probably pre OS X days.
Originally just had a couple of external drives, no backups. Would add a drive once a year or so. Then I digitised all my DVDs, so instead of cluttering the living room, shipped them off to storage, so had to add several terabytes in one go, and then worried about backups so needed twice as many drives...
But now it's addictive. I keep wanting to add more disk icons to the desktop. I'm running out of desk space
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But, who can resist the power? At least the storage is much better than the Mac Mini.
Actually I'm using a Late 2014 Mac Mini that I bought March 2016, so 6 years in one of the main reasons it made it this far is that I future proofed it with the max RAM available. Likewise my 2018 MBP Touchbar, I only got the 2.2 555x but I did up the storage to 1TB and that has allowed that notebook to handle all my storage needs.
Right the base 2014 Mini with 4GB of RAM was a bad situation to start with, so upgrading was essentially required to make it useable.
I had the base Mini and was running out of memory constantly. I considered upgrading to a 16GB M1 Mini however I was doing more GPU intensive work and needed native support for three displays. I felt only benefitting from double the memory wouldn't be enough. The base studio meets all my needs perfectly. but everyones needs are different, there is no 'one size fits all' solution.
Probably the longer of the two given the current lead times on any BTO machines and the fact that stores don't always have stock. I think it will be July at the soonest. Also consider that a base Max will likely sell for $1,849 refurbished and currently Costco (though out of stock as of today) sells the base for $1,949. Likewise the base Ultra will probably be $3,699 and Costco sells that for $3,799.
