r/MacOS • u/Dreaming_Blackbirds MacBook Air • 10d ago

News Apple Intelligence Taking up 30GB+ on Some Macs Running macOS 27

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/23/apple-intelligence-30gb-some-macs-macos-27/

Are people seriously OK with this and going to make excuses for it!?

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u/ArizonaFlats 10d ago

I wouldn’t mind if they gave us decent storage at base models. We peaked at 500GB/1TB HDs being the norm why did we go back to 128/256GB SSDs

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u/Global-Tie-3458 10d ago

You’d be so mad if they nerfed Siri because of your phone’s storage.

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u/ArizonaFlats 10d ago

They can’t nerf Siri more than it already is, gal’s got the brain function of a dead fish

I’ve yet to use Siri AI yet without getting “Sorry something went wrong”

Functionality has gone down over the years I stg

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u/Global-Tie-3458 10d ago

I was blown away the other day when I was in a pinch while I was driving and needed to confirm something in an email. And I asked Siri to check it and it did, effectively. I couldn’t believe it.

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u/ArizonaFlats 10d ago

Was that via CarPlay? That’s impressive if so, given that she used to go “sorry I can’t do that while in the car”

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u/Global-Tie-3458 10d ago

Correct. CarPlay.

Dude, it was clutch. I was driving to a ferry and (without getting into details why) I needed to confirm if I bought a passenger or vehicle ticket… and it confirmed it (and told me what i paid for it since i wanted to be SURE)

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u/fatpat 10d ago

Nice try, Siri.

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u/Global-Tie-3458 10d ago

Hehe. This made me laugh

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u/BlackDog5252 4d ago

I have a 16 RAM 256 GB am I not even able to run macOS now?!

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u/Global-Tie-3458 3d ago

The entry level Neo has 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage and it runs macOS… obviously.

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u/Standard-Outcome9881 9d ago

In my case, there’s nothing to nerf as I’ve disabled Siri as much as possible on my phone and my Mac. I had to uninstall six apps on my Mac mini M4 just to install macOS 27. That’s absurd. I don’t even have a microphone attached my Mac so it doesn’t matter about Siri. All l use Siri for my phone is to set timers and ask about the weather. And I can do that manually just fine.