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Even weirder is that it's only bundled with 2TB of storage. If you have more than that you cannot upgrade without losing storage space.


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Mh weird that they bundle it with storage.

Makes downgrading hard if you don't track your usage and get used to it


That's weird, so you can only go from 5 GB -> 50 GB -> 2 TB?

They didn't mention storage expansion. This was a big red flag. While 250gb is fine for an OS drive, should I ever want to upgrade, what is the catch?

It doesn't "provide enough storage" because it's not supposed to provide storage. You're supposed to provide your own storage, whatever amount you see fit, and you are able to upgrade it at any time.

I know people nowadays are used to not having any control over their storage and simply throwing their device in the trash and buying a new one every few years when it's no longer enough, but it wasn't like this in the past.


It's missing .gb

64GB of storage means you cannot upgrade to the full OS version. You would immediately run out of space.

"with standard storage starting at 256GB all the way up to 1TB"

This has to be a joke right?


> storage/hardware/compute is cheap

And this definitely isn't the case here. If you run out of space it usually means an entirely new device.


Then there are some people, like me, who were unhappy with the size of the storage space and replaced the ssd with a 256GB ssd.

Storage not a problem any more. :)


It actually needs 2.5 GB to install (it won't use it after the installation, obviously).

10GB is nothing nowadays. That much storage costs less than $1. That is a ridiculously small price to pay to be able to roll back from a buggy upgrade.

Wow, it has 128 GB of ROM! Upgradable to 256 GB! I wonder what's with the operating system that takes up so much space. And no mention of user storage.

The 1.7TB drive on the extra-large instance seems strange to me. Who needs that much non-persistent storage?

Simply, everyone whose work requires more than the outdated base specs will be forced to buy a storage upgrade too, even if they don’t need it. That happened to me when buying an iPad.

It's almost like selling a 3TB SSD with only 500GB capacity but it dramatically throttles down once you go past 400GB so that it is impossible to fill it up to 3TB in any reasonable time frame.

To hide the scam, they want to prevent your computer from running any software that would need the whole 3TB.


That number seems to exclude storage.

That doesn't mean it has 124GB available for users.

It's just a bump in the default storage at each "level".

That doesn't help with "for more that 1tb storage".
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