G'day Brian, my experience though a few years go now when I bought a 13" MBP Retina was that getting internal memory is very expensive as Apple charges lots more than you can buy an external 2TB hard drive for. If money is no object then max out internal memory.
If considering going the external memory route, consider if having a drive hanging off a USB is a show stopper for you. It's not for me, I have 250GB internal SSD with about half of it in use and my iTunes and Photos libraries are on the external 2TB drive (totaling ~1.3TB along with some other miscellaneous data) but it is all, including the external drive data, backed up to the TC as well as a CCC backup of the MBP and the ext drive too. Probably some others have some wisdom to share. Regards Pete > On 13 Jul 2017, at 3:18 pm, Brian Risbey <risb...@bigpond.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > after 8 or so years it is time to move on from my MacBookPro 17”, ( think I > have had my money’s worth ;-P) > > So, if building a MacBookPro to order, should I go with the 1TB internal SSD > and buy an external SSD 2TB, with USB -C, perhaps from Samsung, for movies > and Photo Storage, cheaper option, or > Max out the internal SSD to 2 TB, expensive, but may have performance > advantages? > > Also, what are people’s thoughts on dongles vs and all-in-one dock? > > Brian > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
