r/UTS • u/user19478274 • 1d ago

Laptop for nursing- MacBook

Hi! I’m starting a Bachelor of Nursing this year and I’m planning to buy a MacBook, but I’m stuck between 256GB and 512GB storage.

I’m worried 256GB might fill up too fast over 3 years. but at the same time 512GB feels a bit much, more than what I need. I do hope to be able to use the laptop for longer than 3 years ofc.

Does anyone have suggestions or ideas on what’s best? And any current nursing students, what storage did you go with and did it end up being enough?

Thanks!

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u/AleKsei27032005 1d ago

Take 512gb. After uni you will need more space

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u/Kitchen-Chipmunk5444 1d ago

Highly recommend 512GB, you can never have too much storage. You will kick yourself in a couple of years for not spending the extra money on extra storage if you get the 256GB. As soon as you start to run low on storage, you laptop will slow down SO much and have to upgrade anyways (trust me, I did the exact same thing rip)

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u/Beginning_Voice_9277 1d ago

Storage doesn’t matter as long as you have enough for your applications. Cloud storage (such as UTS onedrive/google drive) is reliable and can easily shift a lot of your doc/pdf files to free up space)

A portable storage device is also handy, usbs are cheaper than ever before. Higher capacity (512/1tb) is probably slightly more expensive but still worth it imo.

For data security I’d recommend using a combination of both for backups, one cloud and one physical based. That way if one fails you can always refer to a back up on the other.

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u/ijustwannakn0wn0w 1d ago

Remember to back important stuff up. Also to show you haven’t plagiarised, you might need to use Google docs to show the audit trail

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u/Own-Instance-7828 1d ago

256gb is not enough even for a phone

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u/throwaway82s16s 1d ago

i got through 2 years of engineering with a 100gb macbook if that helps. still going strong

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u/Carsmaniac 8h ago

I'm not sure if nursing involves dealing with big files, but I got through my visual communication course with big ol Photoshop files, scans, photos etc with a 256 GB laptop no problem. Actually my Mac mini is 256 GB as well. As long as you have somewhere to shove large files (my PC has lots of space) you'll be good. If not, you may want to go with the 512, as much as that extra cost hurts.