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nhex NO, turning the drive on and off is the most mechanically stressful operation possible!

but maybe it can just run at night, if that's not defeating the point of it?

that is defeating the point of it

but the real point of it is that it's not updating everything in real time, it's doing it at efficient intervals, so even w/ something crazy like adobe happening it should not be constantly running the drive

ime when it does run though it can be a painfully slow process, so i am switching from a very old fw400 magnetic drive to the wireless ssd time capsule myself

which will not necessarily speed things up but at least it will run quietly in the background instead of clanking away on my desk like a circa-2004 g-drive

imo though this cloud document thing is about to change the game

I wish some new iMacs would come out. Mine is feeling clunky.

So if I've only got a Macbook at home with a 500gb, what's my best backup / Time Machine option? A small external drive with the same capacity and plug it in a couple times a week? Buy a cheap PC and run a drive as a network share?

I like Time Capsule

No way am I turning the drive on and off. Firstly, my time caspule is a 2tb internal drive, so that solves that. But I never turn my computer off. Ever. Only during really bad thunderstorms. Twice I've lost hard-drives while on summer vacation when I've turned my computer off. I think it got too hot. Now I leave my computer on at all times and have had many less problems. I reboot now and again to clean out the cobwebs.

I don't think running it once a night is a bad idea at all. It's still easier than cloning once a night, with the fancy interface and everything. I can only think of one time where I've been like "oh man, what happened to that file from 2 hours ago" but I can think of a few times where there was something from a week or a month ago that I couldn't find and Time Machine saved me.

where there was something from a week or a month ago that I couldn't find and Time Machine saved me

yes

dropbox is also great for that

btw this retina MBP is easily as good as a laptop as the aluminum macbook pro or the top of the line ibm thinkpad (ie one of the three best i've ever seen), the build quality is amazing and w 2.6/16 *it just works*

it is a disgustingly good laptop

Yah, I'm really happy with the MBPR too.

u guys are hurting my resolve not to buy a new laptop

also i'm not sure if it's because i *just* got it instead of a couple months ago, but the complaining about resolution makes no sense to me. i've been dicking around w/ cs6 and office and iwork constantly and everything seems hunky-dory. stuff that looks like shit kinda always looked like shit and everything else looks like it's on paper instead of a tv screen.

well, u guys basically sold me on the retina so now i've got one. gotta figure out what to do w/ excess music files i can't store on laptop anymore (will probably either external hd them or look into other storage options) and whether to do full transfer or pick + choose what files i want to bring over.

i'm interested in advice u guys may have on either of those questions

ssd external w/ your itunes on it

256gb lacie little big disk

also - i heard that notes is better than the microsoft word for mac suite (which is what i've been using for years) and cheaper too. truth?

Hyperbole

it's not as "full featured". many people will see that as a plus but i would say it's hyperbolic to call it a complete replacement solution for word.

wait, what is word for mac suite? you mean office x?

yeah office x which has always slowed down my macbook considerably. what kind of features is notes missing? maybe i should just google up a comparison

templates, excel integration

as a note-taking program? it's about as good as the notetaking format in word.

as a word processor, i would think it's not impossible to use notes + textedit? i think pages is a very good substitute for getting indesign-level results in a few minutes. word is mostly an issue of compatibility for me (depending on whether i'm working in excel or numbers, keynote or powerpoint) and also whether i'm trying to format a book-length thing (for which word is pretty much the defacto standard)

for short-page length, info light fancy things things then iwork

for basic word processing like letters to the court or unemployment or college (or all three) you could use textedit and notes.

how about pages? can i substitute that for office?

or iwork i guess

are you editing a thesis or sending resumes?

term papers or 100 page reports?

shorter work = iwork, longer work = office

here's a fucking complaint

i can't play HALO or VICE CITY because my fucking joystick's not working with the new USB port

btw, here's my educational discount story. i told the guy that i have an nyu email addy and he was like: show it to me + that'll be good enough and so i got all the discounts and the $100 gift card for apps.

i have not been a student for 2 years

well you're tutoring people for free, right?

that's education too

they should call it "idealism pricing"

steve jobs memorial global scholarship for buying my shit

whether to do full transfer or pick + choose what files i want to bring over.

― Mordy, Friday, August 17, 2012 5:51 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was kinda exciting moving from my old macbook to this macbook air b/c i didnt need to do either a full transfer OR choose files -- 90% of what i needed was "on the cloud" so i just installed dropbox + turned on itunes match and i had all of my music and documents at my fingertips. plus syncing for chrome meant all my bookmarks and prefs and so on.

had to d/l a coupla hoonja doonjas but otherwise was the smoothest-ever transition to a new computer

what a welfare queen, riding the system.

xp For long-form writing/research, Scrivener is the way to go.

was thinking of mentipning some of the book editing pro tools

but i kept wanting to call it bartleby or samuel and anyway i know nothing about it

how is it?

i tried scrivener back in grad school but found it really confusing

Just realized my current hardware (5 yrs old) won't run the new OS.

so photostream is very cool and def beats plugging in my iphone whenever i want to import photos. however i can't tell if the photos are being saved on my laptop? i know that photostream has a time limit for storing photos. any idea how i make sure i have them saved to my computer?

go into photostream either in iphoto or aperture

import the photos you want into your library before you delete them off iphone

it's kind of a pain but there's probably an even easier way to do it

i think maybe it did it automatically for me (the import) bc when i try to drag the photostream photos into my library it tells me that it's a duplicate. i've got events in my library labeled things like July 2012 Photo Stream and August 2012 Photo Stream.

ok that seems like how it should be working, i think i have it set up to only grab the ones i tell it to or maybe it's because i am using aperture. i dunno, i am a mega noob bout this.

Fuck photo stream. Dropbox introduced photo sync a few months back. I plug in my phone and it grabs all photos.

w/ photostream tho you don't need to plug in your phone

BOOOOYAAAAAAA

w/ photostream tho you don't need to plug in your phone stop texting while on speakerphone

Scrivener has proven useful for a bunch of screenplay projects I've done, I actually kinda dig it even though I feel I'm not using it to it's full potential or anything

yeah, yeah...I still find it more useful to use dropbox. I don't want to look at iPhoto ever again in my life. Dropbox makes it easier for me to share it. To have it synced on my computer w/o using iPhoto.