New Macbook Pro with Retina looks great. Love the flash memory on my Air but was wondering if it makes sense to purchase the pro with 500gb drive over the new model with 128gb flash?
Son will be a freshman in college and needs a notebook computer. is 128 enough?
Thanks
It depends on how he will be using it. If he will be doing all of his work online or in the "cloud" he could easily get away with 128GB. If he is storing his documents and work on the machine itself rather than online, you may want to consider the Pro.
I'd have to say no... I got the 750gb hardrive and I've already used up about 250gb...
I have 500GB. and I have about 9 large(ish) games installed, plus software I need for school, and I have still have 353GB free. 500 works well.
If he's like my daughter (college freshman), not even close. Get the (now) older model with the 1 TB hard drive.
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace. You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their computers internal HD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your macbook has a HD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your computer to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.
Your HD or SSD is not a "storage place" for lots of big data.......vids, pics, audio. etc. 😊
or i also believe you can upgrade your memory to 1TB, depending on your laptop make. you can find that out by asking apple.
Is 128gb enough for a new college student?
