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Discussion on: Which is the best macbook for programming?

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Steve Moon

128GB storage is definitely too small. Otherwise nothing terribly wrong with the air as long as you don't need more than 8GB RAM, which quite honestly you don't. If you did you'd have figured it out on the last laptop.

A couple of different companies offer SD cards that are designed to fit flush with the side of the laptop. E.g.: Transcend JetDrive lite. So for $100-200 you can keep an extra 256GB as an "external" drive that happens to sit within the laptop. This storage is relatively slow, but for a lot of things like documentation, e-books, itunes library, photos library, and any old cruft that you don't quite want to get rid of, etc -- it's perfect. If you don't need it day 1, at least it's a way to breathe some life into a laptop rather than outgrowing it entirely.

There are also USB drives that fit (nearly) flush with the case and would offer the same sort of benefits, albeit with the loss of a precious USB port.

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aurel kurtula

If I go with MBA I'm going to go with 256GB because I know for a fact that 128 will do my heading. Even with 256 I am saving a lot of money.