Well here I am. Lots of things going on. I'll start with this: I recently replaced the hard drive in my MBP. I have about 300 gigs stored on external drives. It was ok but when I needed to get to my files, I'd have to take my portable drive out, plug it in and go find the file. Not anymore. Now everything is stored on my laptop. I should have done this a while ago. Its a 7200 rpm 500 gig drive. I can access all of my data immediately. Awesome.
For those of you who want or need to clone your hard drive for back up purposes or to do a hard drive swap, I highly recommend
SuperDuper!,
Carbon Copy Cloner or the Disk Utility that comes with a Mac. PC users go away. For those who have an Intel MB or MBP, before you use SuperDuper! or CCC, you MUST format the drive for GUID. I had a hard time figuring this out but for whatever reason, this is the only way that the drive will be recognized as a bootable drive. Otherwise, its just a drive with files on it. Read
this for more info.
I'm a Mac user. My day job uses database programs that can only be accessed using Windows software. So I have to use Windows along side the Mac. I am using
VMware Fusion software running windows. It works well and allows me to get my job done. That said, I am using a Beta Version of Windows 7. Its much nicer than XP Pro. I also like how the windows show all of the drives and folders to quickly navigate to. Just like a Mac. Microsoft sure knows how to copy Apple. A few things I like about Windows7. It is fast. Files and folders seem right there in front of me with very little navigating. I know I said a few things but thats all I can think of.
I'm obsessed with Backup/Sync programs right now. I still haven't figured out a solution for quickly syncing folders to the cloud between hard drive back ups.
SugarSync is a cool program and it seems to do the job. Only problem is pushing huge photo files up every time I shoot is impossible. I will take hours to do. So for now I just need to keep plugging in and backing up when I can.
_Vince
