Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro models offer up to 16TB of internal storage, doubling the previous generation's 8TB maximum. The extra capacity comes at a substantial cost. Upgrading the highest-end M5 Max configuration from its standard 2TB SSD to 16TB costs $7,000, making it $4,000 more expensive than the $3,000 upgrade to 8TB.
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Top Rated Comments
1 hour ago at 10:54 am
16 TB! Imagine having a laptop with so much storage that your Time Machine backup requires RAID. 😂
43 minutes ago at 11:25 am
That's actually roughly what I paid for my first ARM based computer in 1989, adjusting for inflation.
Should you take out a mortgage on this MacBook?
Only $7,000... talk about diminishing returns.
"There's a sucker born every minute." - P.T. Barnum
2MB of RAM, 20MB hard disk.
43 minutes ago at 11:24 am
Isn't it optional?
The problem with 16TB onboard is backup. My NAS is only 20TB!
1 hour ago at 10:56 am
As an older fanboy, these numbers (both the price & the capabilities) are just insane. I can't imagine telling young me in the 90s that we'd have a $7,000 memory option but that also that 7K would get you 16 terabytes of storage in a laptop.
