what to do????????
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- rafalski0
You can get a proper macbook pro 15'4 2.2 for 930 sterling (refurb), it's a steal.
http://store.apple.com/Apple/Web…
- Fariska0
External HD:
http://www.pcworld.co.uk:80/mart…
- Randd0
I use 2 internals and one external; one internal and one external for backup
- PIITB?TheBlueOne
- I've been wary of internal backup since my PSU blew up last year..detritus
- that's the reason for the external; backup the backupRandd
- rafalski0
I'll buy your mini for a hundred. That'll get you started on the way to your new machine..
- rafalski0
Ehh.. Mini doesn't have firewire 800.. Getting an external drive won't hurt anyway, i.e. this kind:
http://www.hardwarezone.com/news…Also you might like to do this:
http://www.ambor.com/public/mero…
..or at least upping ram to 2GB if you haven't already
- detritus0
Nah, tBO - from a coupla hundred quid..
- 'nah'.
I'm so fucking street.detritus - Dammit! Don't give me your damn brit monetary system with your quids and fags and shit..TheBlueOne
- haha, skt - sorry - I wasn't mocking you - must've just picked up on your 'nah' above and plonked it in there..detritus
- Quidditch fag?detritus
- 'nah'.
- ian0
Buy a decent mac, but £200 for a terabyte hard drive is good, get one of them too.
- detritus0
Whatever you do decide, get an external anyway, man - you need to have some sort of local backup. If you've got a bit of cash to splash - I'd recommend forking out for a nice big external RAID drive (one with two drives, both storing the same data) - that way you can have lots of storage and, Camden fire or Peterbrough earthquake aside, you've got a certain amount of on-site assurance.
- So you're looking at £1200...TheBlueOne
- nah, get an offsite tape backup.skt
- so your looking at £3000skt
- creative-0
Time to bite the bullet and buy a decent Mac
- skt0
you can't do print work on a big hard drive.
- TheBlueOne0
Buy a proper machine.
- I know you wanted to hear a different option, but...TheBlueOne
- BaskerviIle
So, I work in my job on a highpower beast of a g5 tower. I never really did that much freelance work at home. I have an old (ie circa 2001) g4 tower which is v slow but I still keep because I've got lots of old work on there.
I bought a mac mini in 2005 to use exclusively for recording music and it's been great for that, but now I'm starting to do some freelance work at home and my only option is to use the mac mini, which is a little slow but ok (1.5 ghz, 512mb ram, 75Gb hd). I now have an ipod touch so I'm wanting to rip movies from dvd for that etc so my music and video are taking up space too.
I'm rapidly running out of hard disk space only about 5GB left.so do I:
a) buy an external hardrive and store all my files, music, video etc on there and use the 75GB hard disk space for apps.
b) buy a 'proper' mac that has more ram, and a massive HD built in so that I can do real design work and music on it.
You can get a 1Terabyte HD for £200 if I just stuck that on my mac mini and never unplugged it could I use it with itunes etc easily?
Otherwise it means spending at least £1000 to get a decent mac, quite a big difference in spending.
any advice would be welcomed