I am probably not a "general consumer", so a description like
"MacBook Air with M5 now comes standard with 512GB of storage — double that of the previous generation — and can be configured up to 4TB for the first time"
for me sounds terrible in a very bad sense for a computer around $1k, so I would have never bought something like this even many years ago.
To be fair, due to the huge increase in the price of SSDs and DRAM, a 512 GB SSD @ $1100 no longer sounds so bad as one year ago, but it is still bad.
"MacBook Air with M5 now comes standard with 512GB of storage — double that of the previous generation — and can be configured up to 4TB for the first time"
for me sounds terrible in a very bad sense for a computer around $1k, so I would have never bought something like this even many years ago.
To be fair, due to the huge increase in the price of SSDs and DRAM, a 512 GB SSD @ $1100 no longer sounds so bad as one year ago, but it is still bad.