I’m not sure how long you’ve used Macs for David but it used to be as easy as taking the removable battery out of your MacBook and then flicking a lever to remove the hard drive and upgrade the storage yourself!

I’m not sure I’d want to return to 2006 and lug that 2.5kg laptop to uni and back every day but it certainly offset the stingy storage. The storage on iPhones wasn’t really a problem until apps started getting bigger, I thought 8gb was enough on the first gen model but by the time of the 5S it just wasn’t enough.


These days I do think that 128gb is probably enough for the average user on an iPhone. I certainly haven’t filled mine and I have a LOT of games on there. It does tend to be Apple Arcade that stuffs the thing!

It’s probably the same with computers. If I’m buying a MacBook Air just for writing, Office work and processing my photos 256gb is plenty. It’s just a shame that it costs so much more for the dual NAND model.

I think the iPad is where it hits hard. I have the 128gb M1 iPad Pro and the storage is a real barrier to using it for Final Cut Pro. I’d want at least a terabyte if I was going to go down that road (well, until they let you use external storage at any rate)