FWIW I own a 256 GB 2014 Pro. 70% of the storage is occupied by media (movies, music, etc.) because I am an old man and can't figure out this newfangled streaming consarnit. For actual productivity needs my apps only take about 30 gigs and my data maybe another 10 gigs. A 128 GB SSD would have been very adequate for me and I do regret spending the extra money on something I didn't really need.

OS X El Capitan 10.11.x; OS X Yosemite 10.10.x; OS X Mavericks 10.9.x; OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x; OS X Lion 10.7.x; OS X Lion Server 10.7.x; Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server 10.6.x; Mac OS X Leopard Server 10.5.x * — Only the one downloaded with help of Installation Assistant. ** — Parallels tools are not available for this operating system.

However, my Macbook is also a second computer as I have a very expensive desktop I do most of my work on now. If your laptop is going to be your only computer and you have a lot of data it will be worth it to have more storage locally. You can usually find newer Apple devices being sold with AppleCare included. People get buyer's remorse and are outside of their return window. I wouldn't pay substantially extra for a used item just because it had AppleCare though. Cheers this is what I was looking for. I have a Desktop (gaming/media etc.) And also a iPad for any entertainment.

This MacBook would be for university, so only word processing, taking notes and programming. I am also looking into learning Swift. My biggest concern is that I cannot fit the programs that I need on the 128gb of space. All my documents etc would be saved to the cloud/USB/external drive and I will have no media files such as videos, images etc on there. If possible could you show me the available space on the MacBook? Cheers • • • • •. When I deploy a Mac at work, a clean install of El Cap, Office 2016, and Acrobat Pro CC runs around 30GB if I recall correctly, maybe a little less.

Mac os download for vmware. It has got Apple Pay which will secure all of your payments whenever you will shop on Safari on your Mac. You can automatically store different files on your desktop as well as in your Document folder in iCloud. It has got Auto Unlock feature by which you can log in to your Mac OS automatically with an Apple Watch and you don’t need to type in your password.

You'd have about 80GB left to play with, after accounting for the recovery partition and the amount of space partitioning consumes. Xcode with the iOS SDK these days takes up over 10GB. You'd ideally want to leave 15GB free on your disk at all times so OS X can manage swap, defragmentation and other disk maintenance, so realistically after Xcode you've got maybe 50GB of actual usable free space. Up to you if you want to constantly manage storage, or just spend the extra for a 256GB drive now.

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