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But that's my point about the Fusion drive thing; SSD's are cheap enough now that apple could easily just go completely SSD.
Samsungs 840 series 1TB SSD is now $400. Their superfast New Vnand 1TB is $620.
That's pretty much what apple charges you for a fusion drive!
Best thing to do it go for the smallest drive and install your own SSD. At some places such as mac mall or other more techy Mac retailers, they'll even buy the drive off you if you have them install the ssd at point of purchase.
It's nonsense. Same with RAM - get the lowest you possible can from apple and buy aftermarket at 50% less, and in somecases better performance.
If I had my wish, you be able to buy a a mac without a drive or a RAM, then just install your own.
Anyway, who the fuck needs a 1TB internal drive? The OS is 30gb. Programs, even if you're a slut will get you to maybe 120gb. You need 250gb, maybe 500gb at most.
Then you're just using your internal drive for media and personal storage, which is super dumb on so many levels, not to mention, most of that stuff is simply not performance critical so external drives will work perfectly. Even if you you do need performance on an external, TB drives have solved that.
As for audio, mac actually has always done more than M$; the aggregate device is a godsend and a massive advantage over windows. On board audio for most macs is actually pretty good but they could take it to prosumer quality quite easily. They also were in talks with a bunch of different manufactures to try to get a consensus on data bandwidth and maybe even standardizing a universal protocol so it would be like a class compliance driver on steriods. apogee, RME, SSL were all in talks with apple but it hasn't surfaced yet. If anything Apple does actually appreciate audio but in the grand scheme of things (i.e. sales) making a slightly thinner ipad will get them much more coin.
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