If you’re streaming content instead of buying it, 256GB is probably sufficient. Of course, my habits are changing and so are the habits of others - for instance, I’m starting to stream more videos from Netflix and Amazon Prime Video instead of buying and downloading them. Why? I also have dozens of movies and some TV shows that I like to keep downloaded and handy directly on my MacBook Pro.
If you have a lot of photos like me - I have more than 20,000 photos and videos in my iPhoto library, which takes up more than 100GB of space - then 256GB of storage on a MacBook Pro is flirting with danger. If you don’t have much right now, 256GB will likely be plenty of storage for you for the foreseeable future. If you are a shutterbug - or have an iPhone 6 or iPhone 7 - and you can imagine yourself taking a lot of photos and video that you want to keep forever on your MacBook, you should try to figure out how much storage your current photos and videos take up. Alert: B&H has a crazy good deal on an Apple 15.4″ MacBook Pro with 256GB of storage - save a whopping $800 on Black Friday only! This level of savings is rare.
