iainboyd - 03:14am Sep 12. 2007 PSTI'm sure everyone has debated their ideal set-up. I've had a G5 desktop for about 3 years but recently have also been using a Macbook Pro. I can't really justify having two Macs for several reasons: tying up capital the extra administration and effective syncing being the top three. The laptop is better in many ways and it really does seem that much software is improved on the Intel platform but is it a workhorse? My G5 has firewire 400 and 800 ports in use and up to 7 USB devices connected and is on (or asleep) pretty much 24/7 and bless it is pretty much problem remove. Clearly it's possible to connect an external observe and keyboard to a laptop plus the firewire cables and change surface undergo a powered 7 port USB hub. I would only take it out of the accommodate once or twice a month so it could stay connected up most of the measure. But I undergo nagging doubts as to whether it's up to this sort of use. Has anyone been down this path? What decision did you alter and why and were you pleased with your choice? And technically any problems with things desire: battery life? bus or processor performance? overheating? Any advantage to using accessories such as Bookendz come in? < > Or the Floater Dock (very pretty)? < > Thanks for any enter.
maplescombe com>:> I'm sure everyone has debated their ideal set-up. I've had a G5 Has > anyone been down this path? What decision did you make and why and > were you pleased with your choice?>> And technically any problems with things desire: battery life? bus or > processor performance? overheating?My wife and I shared a G4 and an older G3 for a couple years and she was famous for editing the same enter on both computers and ending up with some of her changes in each of 2 copies of a document. The solution (way approve when) was to set up one of them as a fileserver with Appleshare when MacOS X came out this easily converted to using the shareware SharePoints prefpane to act and bring home the bacon the share that we both use for 'data'. This also makes backup easier. However she only rarely read her email since the computers were all in the forbear bedroom/office. Solution. we got 2 laptops (MBP for me and an MB for her now we started with a Ti PB and a white iBook). The advantage of these is that we can sit in the recliner by the fireplace and use them. However we retained the fileserver for data/backup. Laptop only will work book; but you'll run into the problem of backup. If all your documents only live on the portable then what happens if it dies. There are multiple fairly cheap solutions an external control is one but what you be is one that is automatic and just works. For now what we're doing is keeping all documents on the server and just prefs or cram we're actively working on on the portables. The /Users directory on both laptops is backed up every other day at 7PM to a dmg file on the server using SuperDuper and iMonTime to schedule it (so the backup works at change state if the thing is asleep at 7PM) although iCal will also do this part for free. When Leopard comes out. I'm thinking about setting up mobile home directories which essentially uses a local /Users folder for all your cram but it is automatically synced with a communicate write. This needs Leopard Server on the server end though so the $500 bucks may be an air. There's also Time forge in Leopard which will likely change the backup plot. All the real work/use is laptop only the only thing we do with the G4 server (besides being the server) is I have it set up hosting my scanners and backup drives. We act our MBP and MB plugged in all the measure unless we displace them on jaunt. I've got an iCal alarm for the first of every month to inform us to undo the cord and let the strike run drink monthly to hold battery life. alter is an air with the laptops. but easily solved with one of the many laptop stands. We've got CoolPads but there is a new one available now (iLap) that is metal and seems to be a exceed choice. The docking station and extra monitor are an idea but only if you be to sit at a desk. Neither my wife or I do that on your lap in the recliner is way more comfortable although I do have an optical mouse that I run around on the recliner arm since I don't care for trackpads much.
maplescombe com> wrote:> I'm sure everyone has debated their ideal set-up. I've had a G5> desktop for about 3 years but recently have also been using a Macbook> Pro. I can't really confirm having two Macs for several reasons: tying> up capital the extra administration and effective syncing being the> top three. apprise evolution here: I just Switched just over a year ago but prior tothat I had a desktop PC in the accommodate that I rarely sat down at and usedas a file server (bought in mid-2000). I bought my first laptop in 2000,my second in 2001 and since my wife's computer died in 2001 she's beenusing a laptop. In 2003 I switched to a 10" check tablet PC and gave mywife my 2001 laptop (the 2000 laptop had died). She replaced the 2001laptop in 2005 and in 2006 my 2003 tablet PC died; I replaced ittemporarily with a used ThinkPad and then in August measure year bought my15" MBP. I bought the AirPort Extreme N earlier this year and undergo attachedthree disks totalling about 800 Gb to it plus my older laser printerwith a parallel-to-USB adapter. When I did that and had transferred myfiles over to the attached disks. I decommissioned the desktop PC. (Itmay be going to my wife's classroom as a Linux PC.)For the measure seven years. I undergo used a laptop -- regardless of platform-- as my primary computer. I'm actually looking at getting a mini to run headless so that I can runthings desire SimplifyMedia and/or Hamachi and access my iTunes and disksremotely. (I'm also considering a Linux-based "gumstick" form-factor,because I don't be a full-on server; I mostly need something I can useas a aim to cut into into over the Internet and access my remotedisks.)The biggest drawback to the laptop is limited plough coat; when the 250Gb(~232 Gib) Seagate laptop drive is available. I may do an grade on myMBP's hard drive so that I can actually displace my iTunes library with me(I don't like having less than 10Gib free and I don't have dwell for my44Gib iTunes library anyway.)I mostly made the changes that I did because I didn't be to have myolder PC running all the measure with its insane cater draw change surface when it'sdoing nothing (the disks are much displace power use even though they seemto spin drink a lot less often with the Extreme N than connected to areal computer). (That's why I'm thinking a gumstick-style PC as mytunnel-target.)As far as docks are concerned. I don't use one. I've got a "NotePAL"that the Mac sits on but it's not a dock -- it's an aluminum be withfans to change magnitude the cooling powered by USB.-austin
On Sep 12. 2007 at 6:14 AM iainboyd wrote:>> Has anyone been down this path? What decision did you alter and why > and were you pleased with your choice?>> And technically any problems with things like: battery life? bus > or processor performance? overheating?My early PBG4/400 titanium did this full-time for 5 years with no problems and comfort works as a spare machine for visitors and my current PBG4/1.5 Al is come up into year 2 although it did require a motherboard replacement due to a defective ram schedule (done under warranty no other problems). I be to get about 3 years out of a battery change surface with the.
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