8 gig enough?

[crackberrytraitor]

The industry in general is moving away from 8gb devices.

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Apparently not.

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[natehoy]

Having had the device for some time since I originally posted, I'll say two things:

1. 8GB still would have been enough, since the device is used mostly at home while I'm in WiFi range, so all streaming media is stored on my home file server, and 8GB is plenty for all the apps I've loaded.
2. I don't regret buying the 16GB one bit. With 16, there's always that little bit extra when you need it.

Then again, I waited for the Nexus 7 for a long time - something with this much power at this price point, and as a result the $50 difference in price was pretty much meaningless to me. I wanted to future-proof my device a bit and make sure that I could use it in the future for things I cannot anticipate today, so I bought the 16GB. Chances are, 8GB of that memory will never be exercised when I decommission the device a few years hence. Honestly don't care - it's there if I need it and I have the money to afford it. I'd hate to want to load all my documentation for all the various systems I support at work and find out that I'm 1GB short or something, if I ever decide to do something like that. I'd hate to go on an extended road trip without WiFi and find that I'm 2GB too low to hold a movie that would have made the flight more tolerable. And I'd hate to have to live permanently with an external USB dongle to get more memory to the thing.

If I wanted infinitely expandable memory, I would have shelled out for the Galaxy Tab or something.

 

[crackberrytraitor]

Having had the device for some time since I originally posted, I'll say two things:

1. 8GB still would have been enough, since the device is used mostly at home while I'm in WiFi range, so all streaming media is stored on my home file server, and 8GB is plenty for all the apps I've loaded.
2. I don't regret buying the 16GB one bit. With 16, there's always that little bit extra when you need it.

Then again, I waited for the Nexus 7 for a long time - something with this much power at this price point, and as a result the $50 difference in price was pretty much meaningless to me. I wanted to future-proof my device a bit and make sure that I could use it in the future for things I cannot anticipate today, so I bought the 16GB. Chances are, 8GB of that memory will never be exercised when I decommission the device a few years hence. Honestly don't care - it's there if I need it and I have the money to afford it. I'd hate to want to load all my documentation for all the various systems I support at work and find out that I'm 1GB short or something, if I ever decide to do something like that. I'd hate to go on an extended road trip without WiFi and find that I'm 2GB too low to hold a movie that would have made the flight more tolerable. And I'd hate to have to live permanently with an external USB dongle to get more memory to the thing.

If I wanted infinitely expandable memory, I would have shelled out for the Galaxy Tab or something.

Sounds like you made the right decision for you I only carry my USB dongle when I'm going on a trip and want my movie collection (3 terabytes spread out over a hand full of 250GB flash drives).

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