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Hi all,
Having a bit of a storage issue and want some advice.
Currently using a 2015 13inch MacBook Pro 128gb for all my photography editing. Due to the limited space I also have an additional 256gb micro SD inserted - not ideal but it does a job.
I bought this at a time when photography was an irregular hobby so that space was fine. Now I take photography much more seriously and am building up towards doing weddings. I have maxed out the space and am eating into a 1tb external HDD. I don’t want to constantly have an external drive plugged in as it just isn’t practical, and I sometimes like to go back through old images that I didn’t get round to editing - this would be a PITA if I had moved them to an external drive. I realise that when I start doing weddings - I would have to do this eventually no matter what internal memory I had but I am at this stage with just landscape images and a few other bits.
I guess my options here are to stick with what I have and use external drives, upgrade the current SSD (not sure how easy or costly this is), move to a higher memory windows laptop (higher memory MacBook is too expensive as would want 512gb and maybe 15 inch).
Now I do have a 21.5 inch Mac on backorder as it was cheap on amazon (£1050) for 1 day only and has a 1tb drive and a retina screen (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iMac-Retina-display-All/dp/B072N2FNZM?ref_=mw_olp_product_details). Having second thoughts though as I do like laptops for their portability and like to edit whilst sat on the sofa - clearly not possible on a desktop.
What would you recommend? Are there any better windows laptops with a better than retina screen etc?
I would want anything else to be as reliable - MacBook runs exactly as it did on day 1 after 2 years of use. Edit: might be worth mentioning my previous laptop was a Dell with a quad core i7 processor, 16gb ram, FHD screen, mixture of SSD and 1tb HDD so it was a half decent machine but so slow after 2-3 years that I had to completely reinstall the OS.
Thanks,
Tom
Having a bit of a storage issue and want some advice.
Currently using a 2015 13inch MacBook Pro 128gb for all my photography editing. Due to the limited space I also have an additional 256gb micro SD inserted - not ideal but it does a job.
I bought this at a time when photography was an irregular hobby so that space was fine. Now I take photography much more seriously and am building up towards doing weddings. I have maxed out the space and am eating into a 1tb external HDD. I don’t want to constantly have an external drive plugged in as it just isn’t practical, and I sometimes like to go back through old images that I didn’t get round to editing - this would be a PITA if I had moved them to an external drive. I realise that when I start doing weddings - I would have to do this eventually no matter what internal memory I had but I am at this stage with just landscape images and a few other bits.
I guess my options here are to stick with what I have and use external drives, upgrade the current SSD (not sure how easy or costly this is), move to a higher memory windows laptop (higher memory MacBook is too expensive as would want 512gb and maybe 15 inch).
Now I do have a 21.5 inch Mac on backorder as it was cheap on amazon (£1050) for 1 day only and has a 1tb drive and a retina screen (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iMac-Retina-display-All/dp/B072N2FNZM?ref_=mw_olp_product_details). Having second thoughts though as I do like laptops for their portability and like to edit whilst sat on the sofa - clearly not possible on a desktop.
What would you recommend? Are there any better windows laptops with a better than retina screen etc?
I would want anything else to be as reliable - MacBook runs exactly as it did on day 1 after 2 years of use. Edit: might be worth mentioning my previous laptop was a Dell with a quad core i7 processor, 16gb ram, FHD screen, mixture of SSD and 1tb HDD so it was a half decent machine but so slow after 2-3 years that I had to completely reinstall the OS.
Thanks,
Tom
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