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Most $700+ Windows thin-and-light laptops have 1TB drives, sometimes better. People keep buying Apple laptops with small drives, so Apple has no incentive to improve the baseline.
This is really starting to remind me of the Nvidia problem; because people keep buying their cards, Nvidia dragged their feet on VRAM upgrades for the past 5 years, only finally improving desktop 5070 cards to 12GB when it became apparent the cards were struggling at 1440p. The GTX 1070 mobile came out with 8GB VRAM in August 2016. It took 9 years for Nvidia to finally move on VRAM in desktop cards in 70-level cards. But Nvidia still made the sales, so they kept shipping 8GB VRAM cards, even in the midrange. A 5070 mobile with 8GB VRAM in 2025 is a crime.
Most $700+ Windows thin-and-light laptops have 1TB drives, sometimes better. People keep buying Apple laptops with small drives, so Apple has no incentive to improve the baseline.
This is really starting to remind me of the Nvidia problem; because people keep buying their cards, Nvidia dragged their feet on VRAM upgrades for the past 5 years, only finally improving desktop 5070 cards to 12GB when it became apparent the cards were struggling at 1440p. The GTX 1070 mobile came out with 8GB VRAM in August 2016. It took 9 years for Nvidia to finally move on VRAM in desktop cards in 70-level cards. But Nvidia still made the sales, so they kept shipping 8GB VRAM cards, even in the midrange. A 5070 mobile with 8GB VRAM in 2025 is a crime.
I agree that it's probably workable for lots of people via external drive when docked, myself included.
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