Dieter Bohn Microsoft releases cheaper Surface laptops

In 2011, I walked into an Apple Store prepared to buy a 256GB MacBook Air — a $300 premium over the entry-level 128GB model. As a poorly paid employee of a bakery that was imminently going out of business, that was a lot of money to me, but I was willing to pay it for the extra space.

But before I could buy the laptop, an Apple Store employee asked why I wanted the additional storage. It didn't really seem necessary to him, he said. And to the best I can remember, the advice he gave me was: "cloud that shit."

I walked out of that store with a 128GB Air and intermittently regretted it for the next six years.