Steve Troughton-SmithA $499 MacBook Neo with the brains of a couple-year-old iPhone can run Xcode, Photoshop, Blender, Terminal, and pretty much everything else you can think of, yet your $3,200 iPad Pro, with a desktop-class chip, cannot 😑
What are we doing here?
Gabriel N@stroughtonsmith how can you fit Xcode there? You’ll run out of disk space quite soon…
root42@root42 can it be run externally? It needs to be able to access a whole lot of items that it installs in the system, and not very small ones.
I added a large internal drive to a MacBook Pro 2012 and moved the users folders there, but not only it was difficult to do and a problematic solution afterwards, but impossible to do in this case.
Mehdi Kharraz@wtrmt @root42 Sequoia added a setting in the Mac App Store to install apps larger than 1 GB to a an external disk: https://support.apple.com/guide/app-store/download-install-large-apps-a-separate-disk-fir06754f864/mac
Haven't tested it but from what I understand, it creates all the necessary folders (Applications, Library and so on) on the disk automatically.
Haven't tested it but from what I understand, it creates all the necessary folders (Applications, Library and so on) on the disk automatically.
