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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jul 12

    The new MacBook Pro that’s $7,000 with a 4 TB hard drive. That is indeed expensive... ...for the .001% of the population that needs 4 TB of local storage on a laptop in 2018

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      2. Ryan Allred‏ @ryanallred Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        What if you just bought a 4TB external hard drive for $100? I'm confused about how this is worth the cost.

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      3. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo Jul 12
        Replying to @ryanallred @AustenAllred

        it's 4TB, SSD, via the fastest interface possible, needing no thought over what's internal/external, & nothing extra to carry/lose. for a dev using lots of virtual machines & big data sets, it's tempting. probably so for high-end video/photo/animation folks, too.

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      4. Ryan Allred‏ @ryanallred Jul 12
        Replying to @gojomo @AustenAllred

        Still seems like a lot of money for a little bit faster access to files/convenience of not lugging an extra brick around. :) Cloud storage? I just can't help but wonder what it costs apple to put those TBs in there compared to what the consumer pays for them.

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      5. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo Jul 12
        Replying to @ryanallred @AustenAllred

        yes, Apple absolutely uses revealed willingness-to-pay, for high-TB SSDs (MacBook) & high-GB flash (iPad/iPhone), to price-discriminate & extract higher margins from pro users for those last increments of storage...

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      6. Gordon Mohr  👁 👁‏ @gojomo Jul 12
        Replying to @gojomo @ryanallred @AustenAllred

        …but when over lifetime of unit, it avoids lots of delete-or-not decisions, or ensures you always have full datasets/test-configurations/alt-dev-environments/alt-OSes at hand at local speeds, it can plausibly pay itself back with time saved or a single analytic/debugging win

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      7. Balaji S. Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis Jul 13
        Replying to @gojomo @ryanallred @AustenAllred

        Gordon is right. For data analysts or video editors, they’ll fill it up. The computer is what they use all day, every day. The difference between built-in storage vs an external HD is the difference between a phone and an accessory — another thing to carry, to lose, to forget.

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      1. Ryan McDermott‏ @ryconoclast Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I need it for all those movies, music, and apps I store locally. What even is the cloud?!

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      1. Get RUSTY!‏ @BakerD42 Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Most of independent small film/video production companies I've worked with use these high end MacBooks for post production stuff like editing and sound mixing and can write them off as business expenses.

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      1. Alex Loukissas‏ @aloukissas Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        I bet it will also still have a crappy keyboard, too. Those 2014-era MBPs will be hot commodity like air-cooled 911s, mark my words.

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      1. Jason Lee‏ @surociam Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Tell that to someone on a long flight

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      1. Jessica Waite‏ @ImJessW Jul 13
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Honestly, I do tons of photography and I like having access to my raw files without redownloading from the cloud so I’m part of that .001

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      1. sheynk  ✈‏ @sheynk Jul 13
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Not - but 3K for a well configured 13' hurts. 1tb + 16gb ram is minimum if you wanna run Slack and Chrome 🤣

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      1. John Caprani‏ @CapraniJohn Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        .00001%

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      1. Liam Ronan‏ @liampronan Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        helps meet pro-needs but mainly: sets high point of comparison that helps to frame computer purchase and justify avg. HD upgrade ("i'm only upgrading to something reasonable like 512GB, not some crazy like 4TB")

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      1. Jason S. Mow  🤔‏ @jmow Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Probably still compelling for the pro video crowd, they've been poorly served by apple for the last 3-5 years

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      1. S‏ @thegreatsabri Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        even the 512gb is expensive tho

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      1. Lasha Krikheli‏ @LashaKrikheli Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Yet, most critics will focus on ridiculing how Apple even offers such an option.

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      1. JADESIGNLOVIN'‏ @jadesignlovin Jul 12
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        what's the screen size?

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      1. Omar Qazi‏ @omarqazi Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Storage costs a lot, but this is really just a Windows XP Home / Pro situation. Make sure you’re capturing as much as possible from customers who need your product without cutting off people who can’t afford that pricepoint. The heavy pro users subsidize consumers in that way.

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      1. Tony‏ @TonyN2x Jul 12
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        i’ll probably get the 1tb model. no need for 4tb or even 3tb. if i wanted more ill get non ssd

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