Comment by aucisson_masque
14 hours ago
I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that.
You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.
> just because my email takes 150gb
You have a very different email life than me. Is that like, all emails received in your life, or just huge attachments?
He's replaced Github repos with local email archives because a Medium article said "One trick to enhance your version control"
It's only a few years but lot and lot of attachment. Unoptimized pdf takes a big chunk.
Unfortunately with DDR5L speeds, they need to be embedded to keep signal stability, so you need to find at least a 16GB laptop which is STILL pretty gatekept with a higher chip like i7 so you have to pay $300 more for that extra 8GB, pulling a page from Apple. Luckily m.2 is still a thing and 99% of Windows still use it.
Did you consider Linux instead?
Why do you need 150G of mail locally? and why did you think it sufficient to bug the absolute minimum spec available?
I’m afraid though that the core premise of your comment is flawed. Storage and especially memory are increasingly soldered to thin and lights. Even professional grade laptops such as the Thinkpad X1 Carbon have soldered memory.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-scourge-of-fully-soldered-...