How do you solve the problem of lack of space on MacBooks with Retina?

Question

Solid State Drives

I am faced with a dilemma - either take a 12-year-old MacBook with the possibility of an upgrade, but not with such a nice screen, or buy a retina for a little more money, but only a retina with 256 gig ssd on board falls under my budget, and my needs are about 500. One of my iTunes library is about 180 gigs. How to be? I need a media library at hand all the time, it is inconvenient for me to use it on external media. Yes, and I always backup the system to a time capsule, but with external media it can be difficult.
Who decides for himself the problem of lack of space?

Answer 1

1. Buy from 256 and replace with an SSD at 500.
2. Use memory cards as a second "built-in" media.

Answer 2

1. Definitely, Retina with 256 GB. No need to sacrifice the screen
2. Clean up digital garbage
3. Store the necessary (not necessary) garbage on removable media
4. Backup only to external media, nothing difficult
5. You can buy 50 GB in iCloud for 59 rubles / m
I have an SSD on board 256 GB, 125 of them are free. phpStorm, xCode, Android Studio, Genymotion with several Android images, DataGrip, MAMP, Parallels with Windows 10, MS Office and a few more applications, 20 GB of music, active work projects, photos from iCloud.
I store movies, backups and other junk on external HDDs. Additionally, I took 200 GB in iCloud for urgent needs.