External SSD for School

[TaylorDean16]

I'm looking to buy an external SSD to use with my 2019 MacBook Pro so that I can install bootcamp on it instead of using it on my internal drive. I only need to use it for a few classes so it doesn't need to be huge or insanely fast. Do you guys have any recommendations? For the size around 128 gigs is probably plenty of storage. Thanks!

[Mira Yurizaki]

You can't install and run Windows on external drives, at least not without a bunch of hacking.

 

If you only need Windows for certain apps and not for anything high performance, you can use a virtual machine like VirtualBox and store the virtual hard drive on the external drive.

[Razer06]

7 minutes ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

You can't install and run Windows on external drives, at least not without a bunch of hacking.

 

If you only need Windows for certain apps and not for anything high performance, you can use a virtual machine like VirtualBox and store the virtual hard drive on the external drive.

How about this? 

 

[Captain Pappy]

You can also jsut buy a $200 refurbished dell latitude from amazon. If it's really just for class it will do everything you need and do it very well. Yes it costs a little more, but it's sure a lot less hassle that running VMs, and it already comes with a licensed copy of windows 10, so that's just about covers your costs.

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071RY4PJF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

[TaylorDean16]

33 minutes ago, Razer06 said:

How about this? 

 

Yeah I was gonna say I just heard a whole bit on it while listening to the ATP podcast a week or so ago so I know its possible

[TaylorDean16]

34 minutes ago, Captain Pappy said:

You can also jsut buy a $200 refurbished dell latitude from amazon. If it's really just for class it will do everything you need and do it very well. Yes it costs a little more, but it's sure a lot less hassle that running VMs, and it already comes with a licensed copy of windows 10, so that's just about covers your costs.

 

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B071RY4PJF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

I actually already have a spare copy of windows 10 so with that in mind I'd rather just run things off my main MacBook