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As far as I am aware, there isn't a single competitor from big brand manufacture at $599 price point regardless of size. M4, 16GB RAM, Thunderbolt 4. The SSD is the main failing point but with TB4 you can easily get an external SSD. You can also get 10Gbps for extra $100. With EDU or Staff pricing this thing stars at $499. Which is practically a steal.

I am thinking it may be better for cooperate to buy this and run Windows on VM than buying a PC.

Considering iPad and iPhone has been replacing 99% of my workflow outside of office I am thinking if my next computer could be a mini rather than a Laptop.

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I’m always confused as to why people are so paranoid about storage size. I got the base MacBook Air and an external 2TB drive for cheap. Super fast and I never worry about anything - I didn’t even manage to get up to 50% of my 256GB drive.

I agree with your sentiment but I feel like many people just don't like the idea of carrying around dongles/cables/hdds/etc with their laptops.

Especially if you value the Apple aesthetic, where there can be only 1 button, 1 port, and everything has to be as thin as possible.

There is a generation of tech users that downloaded TB of media for local storage. It’s just not something a lot of people do anymore but it created a psychological need, even if it’s not a technical necessity.

I mean have you noticed how bad streaming services have gotten...

There are a bunch of large storage needs that macOS does not let you put on an external drive, like your synced Photos library and iMessage history.

Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108345

If I’m someone who does not super high intensity photo and video work, is a usb 3.2 gen 2 aka ~1 GB/s speeds fine in a hard drive?

Totally fine. I attached a 4TB SSD at 700-800 MiB/s for non-work files, never noticed anything slower unless it’s copying a huge file for 20 seconds instead of 5.

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