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I know this may get some heat …
But Apple SSD prices are down in the new refreshes and across all the Mac lines.
The 4TB upgrade option went from $2800 to $1400 in the top spec MBP.
It’s still a lot of money, but it’s a lot less of a lot of money.
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but when are you placing your order for the new Mac Pro ? Are you saving up your pennies ?
Bob Zelin
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[Bob Zelin] “Are you saving up your pennies ? “
Only for the Pro Display stand.
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Isn’t it just the general trend for price reduction of SSDs? Tech articles from nearly a year ago talked about why SSD prices would reduce dramatically in 2019.
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Oh yes, that Pro Display stand is a must ; )
The timing of my Blues winning that Cup couldn’t have been better. They knew how much I needed the extra work for that stand. Lets Go Blues!
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I see a Samsung 4TB SSD is $692 on Amazon
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Bernie
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That’s for a standard SSD drive running at SATAIII speeds.
Mac laptops use faster storage similar to NVME M2 chips. 4TB of that kind of storage would probably cost more than $1000.
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Ah, I see. Sort of Lamborghini class memory. I’m sure it must come in very useful.
Bernie
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It’s in most laptops now Bernie, just not in as large sizes or with as good read/write speeds
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The read/write speeds they have on the specs for this flash storage are about 4 or 5 times the speed of a SSD drive. With the 4TB option, many people could edit solely on the internal storage with no need for an external drive. I don’t see any 4TB NVME chips available commercially. I wonder if Apple is using a pair of 2TB chips?
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My new laptop has Intel Optane, whatever that is. Sounds good and wasn’t expensive.
I’ve just gutted my main machine and put in a new motherboard, processor and RAM, mainly because the old stuff didn’t want to run complex DaVinci Fusion stuff in real time, even with a very reasonable GTX 960Ti. This new kit must go faster, as the motherboard has little blue LEDs all over it, and the memory is called Corsair Vengeance, which has extra metal bits. It also has M2 slots, but whether to populate them I don’t know yet.
Bernie
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