The LaCie Rugged Pro 2TB Thunderbolt 3 drive, with a roughly-as-fast NVMe SSD inside it, is $700, or $350/TB. The jump from 4TB to 8TB is $1200 which is also $300/TB. The 2TB, 4TB and 8TB SSD options in the new MacBook Pro are still not cheap, but at least they are now an option, and when you consider the capacity of them they are on a par, if not cheaper than comparative NVMe external SSDs such as the LaCie Rugged Pro that launched recently.Īs you can see from the screenshot, the jump up from 2TB to 4TB is $600 which is $300/TB. Not only can the new 16″ models be fitted with up to 64GB of RAM, you can also upgrade the internal SSD to a staggering 8TB capacity! Large internal drive capacities used to be nothing new when good ol’ spinning hard disk drives were the norm many years ago, but with the adoption of solid state drives, price per terabyte increased rapidly and drive sizes took a significant fall. In fact Apple CEO Tim Cook even acknowledged the pro community in his first tweet about the new models when they launched. ![]() ![]() More than any other MacBook Pro before it, Apple seems to be offering considerable upgrade possibilities to suit professional users. While the screen size increase is nice to have, it wasn’t actually the feature of the new model that most caught my attention. ![]() ![]() Apple recently launched a new 16-inch MacBook Pro that will replace the old 15-inch models and despite the screen size increase, the physical size difference between old and new models is relatively small, thanks to a decreased bezel size on the 16″ model.
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