If you have bought an Apple Silicon Mac or MacBook but need to upgrade your storage without buying a brand new device, you can set up your Mac to run from an external drive. Here’s how to boot macOS Monterey using external storage on the new Mac lineup.
Buying a new Mac or MacBook is tempting for most people, especially with the introduction of Apple Silicon providing significant benefits over its earlier Intel-based counterparts. However, an ever-present problem for Apple’s hardware is storage, something that continues to plague the company’s latest releases.
For example, the base model of the M2-equipped MacBook Air has 256 gigabytes of storage. This may seem like a lot for an iPhone or iPad, but for a desktop computer or a notebook, it’s not that much at all.
Since you can’t add more internal storage to a modern Mac after purchase, unlike some older models, you inevitably have to pay Apple for an upgrade at the time of purchase. That can be expensive, with a shift from 256GB to 512GB adding $200 to the cost, or moving from 256GB to 1TB adds $400 instead.
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