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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. I'm Micah Sargent. And today, as is always the case of

hands on tech, we are answering tech questions. We've got a great one that has come in from Dustin,

who is kind of pondering what he should do for a family computer.

Here's what Dustin says.

A couple years back I inherited a 2008 iMac when my uncle passed away.

I set it up in our kitchen and absolutely loved having a kitchen computer,

so much so that I now want to pick up an M4 iMac to replace it.

2008 was ever so long ago,

and it's really struggling these days.

My wife and I would both be using it,

and as a result, I don't know how much storage to get.

Normally, I would be absolutely fine with 256 gigabytes,

but I genuinely don't know how Mac OS deals

with two users logged into iCloud accounts on one system. We wouldn't store all our

iCloud data on it, only pull it in on demand over the web. It would mostly be used for surfing

the web, watching media, and video chatting. What do you think? So Dustin, I love this question,

because it's complicated, and I love a complicated question. One would think

that if you were planning to not have any of your stuff, as you mentioned, your ICloud data

stored locally on device, if you're doing the thing where your photos are only downloaded

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