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Some of us remember how Apple stuck with hard drives in many of their models (iMac, notably), long after SSDs were mainstream. They absolutely will sell borderline unusable machines.
People don't realize how much storage and memory characteristics have changed. Between sub-usec latency and multi-GB throughput, it's no longer a two-week trek through the Yukon for every disk access, and there's no performance benefit to buying the largest ice chest you can afford to store your rations to prevent swapping.
Mac storage is faster today than memory was back when they were maxing it out.
Fire up Teams, Outlook, and a couple of tabs in Chrome and you'll see 8-10MB/s of paging.
That's approximately 30GB/hr of SSD writes. Even using for office tasks that's 1.2TB of writes a week just for memory paging.
> They're not going to produce devices people won't buy.
They ARE going to produce devices people will replace.
It's more. We've got a few hundred launch M1s and have seen no exclusive storage failures yet, a big contrast to the T2s.
We're defintiely past the 150 week mark, but if we start seeing the bathtub curve in effect before the 5-yr warranties burn, I'll post back.
Ask the average person: "would you rather pay $200 more for the base model, but get 8gb more ram?" The person would respond "what is ram?"
People say they hate how media always portrays negative news. But bad news always gets the most views.