Hi Carlo Yes, I've been weighing that up with the new Pegasus range of drives. I quite like the 4 or 6 bay one. Don't think I can afford it just yet though. :) Not sure I could sneak $1600 past the wife :o) lol Plus, the exercise of getting off the couch is good. If I have to go back and forward then it's helpful. If I just had to sit there,...well,...lol :) Mind you,..it's not like I get time anymore to watch that many DVD's. I' like the idea of having access to them when working. So I had thought about that for a while.....
Plus,...the dread of ripping 600 DVD's is a worry. I tell you what,..you rip all my collection for me, and I'll finally agree that we don't need a DVD drive. Sounds fair to me :o) And the SuperDrive,...just "something else hanging off it". I want it "Streamlined". :o) Oh, and what's this Travel thing you talk about??? Travel? Um,.I think I remember that. It's with that thing called,..um,..let me look it up again,...oh yeh. Holi-something. Holimay? Holiday? That was it,..holiday. :o) Oh, don't worry about watching the Tour de France. I can tell you who wins.... The guy in the red shirt. Ok, enough rambling for me,...back to work. Data transfer and erasing to do,... Kind regards Daniel On 20/7/11 10:01 PM, "cm" <cm200...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > I am up watching the Tour de France on my iPad and keeping abreast of the > exciting Apple releases on my MacBook Pro so I find it impossible not to put > an oar. :-D > > One solution would be to get an external Superdrive with the MacMini. They are > available on the Apple Store for AUS$89. Alternatively you could get a large > capacity external thunderbolt drive and rip your DVD collection. Depending on > the resolution you choose you could fit your entire collection on a few > terabytes of disk storage. That would mean they would all be searchable in > iTunes and you wouldn't even have to get off your couch to select a new movie. > Also your movies would be spared degradation of the physical medium. Apart > from that when you travel, you could select some favourites from you > collection and put them on your iPad or MacBook to watch on the journey. > > Sorry, but I couldn't let that full toss go through to the keeper. :-) > > Cheers, > Carlo > > On 2011-07-20, at 21:33, Daniel Kerr wrote: > >> >> Waaaaaahhhhhh there comes my thought of a Home Media Centre to watch DVD's >> etc on. (don't start Carlo - I have a lot of DVDs...over 600+) :op heheh >> And I don't want to rip them all to file. Sometimes I want to grab it and >> watch it. Maybe I'll get one of the just superseded models. Not like I need >> Thunderbolt on it ;o) >> I suppose I do have a BluRay player, so I could use that. Hmmm. >> >> Oh well, back to the drawing board with that idea,.... >> Hmmm,.thinking cap on. :) >> >> Kind regards >> Daniel >> >> >> On 20/7/11 9:10 PM, "Jane Griffiths" <jjgr...@mac.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> I'm surprised to see they've taken the optical drive out of the Mac Mini. >>> >>> So much new stuff to read about on the Apple store! >>> >>> And about to download Lion shortly... >>> >>> cheers >>> Jane >>> >>> On 20/07/2011, at 8:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Australian store is up too >>>> >>>> New MacMini >>>> New MacBook Air >>>> New 27" LED Monitor with Thunderbolt and price drop $1199 for 27"! Nice. :) >>>> >>>> And Lion apparently...lol >>>> Oh wait,...nope. Sign in. Click buy. Type in Apple ID. "This item is >>>> temporarily unavailable. Please try again later". LOL Error Message. LOL. >>>> Oh >>>> well, I'll try later then,..lol. >>>> >>>> Kind regards >>>> Daniel >>>> >>>> >>>> On 20/7/11 8:45 PM, "rkor...@iinet.net.au" <rkor...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Have a look, new MacBook Air among other things >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>>> >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Daniel Kerr >>>> MacWizardry >>>> >>>> Phone: 0414 795 960 >>>> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >>>> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>>> >>>> >>>> **For everything Macintosh** >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >>> >> >> --- >> Daniel Kerr >> MacWizardry >> >> Phone: 0414 795 960 >> Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> >> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >> >> >> **For everything Macintosh** >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> >> > > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au> > --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
