An SSD for your OS and a larger HD for storage aren't mutually exclusive.
As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up to my MacBook Pro already, another 2TB standing by, and a few TB more available over my gigabit LAN, but when I'm not at my desk, where exactly do you think all that storage is? Floating weightlessly beside my head ready to jump into action at a moment's notice?
You want me to have to pull out and hook up an external drive in Starbucks or a conference room or wherever?
What do you want me to do when I don't have that option, and instead have to wait around for that critical video, or virtual machine, or whatever, to copy off my external HDD onto my tiny, overpriced internal SSD on which it may not even fit? Even just managing the placement of files and keeping track of which versions are current or not is a pain in the ass, but what do you want me to do when I have 30 seconds to copy 40GB?
Think real world, not some bizarre happyland where those ports on the side of your laptop mean you can do anything with it anywhere.
Yes.
> As I sit here, I have over 4TB of external storage hooked up...
I'm not talking about external drives. Why are you?
You do realize that computers can have more than one drive, right? I mean, even laptops?
> You want me to have to pull out and hook up an external drive in Starbucks or a conference room or wherever?
I don't know. What do you do now when you already have 4TB of external storage. I mean, please, share with me what you do now when you have that 4TB file that you need with you at all times, how do you handle that now?
> What do you want me to do when I don't have that option,
When you don't have the option to connect 4TB of external storage?
Really, you should spend a few minutes reading your post. Your coming across like a self-entitled ignorant ass with noting to contribute. Check yourself.
For 99% of users, an SSD and some sort of data drive is a perfectly workable solution. You're the outlier here.
Not needing 9TB and an optical drive to do it? Really, you have specific needs. That's fine. But it's fairly egotistical to think that a consumer company like Apple will make something to meet your simple needs.
What I said stands. What you apparently lack is the ability to put it together.
I'd be interested to hear about any "tricky technology" that would let you put two regular hard drives in a Macbook Air.