“The biggest issue I have is that Apple decided it would be fair to give customers paying $1,499 for a new computer a 5,400 rpm hard drive as standard. Sure, it has 1TB of storage, but it’s going to be a massive bottleneck in an otherwise powerful machine. What is this? 1999?

To upgrade to a solid-state hard drive, which is what you should get with a $1,500 computer, it’s an extra $200 for 256GB of storage, or $500 for 512GB. Apple offers the Fusion Drive, too, which is cheaper — but it has even cut corners with that, reducing the size of the solid-state component in the 1TB option ($100) from 128GB to just 24GB.”