My step-son (Wife’s son) is an Emirates Captain and uses a Macbook Air (that I think is about the first one out) on his world wide travels.
We have recently thought of getting him a new one as a gift. However my wife noticed yesterday that someone is selling the Macbook Pro at a discounted price. What do see as the pros and cons of a Macbook Air vs Macbook Air for travelling with ? > On 14 Dec 2014, at 1:40 pm, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > Dropbox - My Work Strategy - My work wherever I am: > > I use iWork’09 (Not iWork’13) - Pages, Numbers & Keynote. My tutorials are > produced in Pages’09. > I work on Two Computers - a 17” MacBook Pro (which is my main “Home Base” > Mac) and a MacBook Air (which is my “Out & About, & Work” Mac). > > I can be working on a Pages or Numbers project on either computer, so need > the projects kept in Sync. > I have a Folder in Dropbox named - “Work In Progress” which holds the > documents I’m working on. > So all my work files are the same no matter where I’m working from. > Which means I can start working on a document on my MacBook Pro (at Home > Base) and continue working on it on my MacBook Air (wherever I am). > > I can review a document or spreadsheet at any time on either computer, or > share the document to a colleague. > And if I finish a project and export is as a PDF I can read it on my iOS > devices. Dropbox syncs to my iOS devices as well as my computers. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) > 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz > 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM > 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage > > >> On 14 Dec 2014, at 10:26 am, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com >> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: >> >> WOW Ronni ! >> Well I feel that my requirements are very much like yours. >> Particularly in that I don’t use P, N or K. >> So thank you for your input …. I will retain Dropbox as my PDF and MS Office >> offsite backup. >> That is my main purpose for it after all. >> >> >>> On 14 Dec 2014, at 7:41 am, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com >>> <mailto:ro...@mac.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Stephen, >>> >>> iCloud Drive is not a Dropbox replacement. I have not moved from Dropbox to >>> iCloud Drive. >>> And I really can't see myself using iCloud Drive in the near future - as I >>> don't use the iOS versions of Pages, Numbers, Keynote. >>> >>> A couple of quick points: >>> 1. It should be noted that iCloud Drive requires iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, >>> so legacy devices running Mavericks or iOS 7 will not be able to keep their >>> documents up to date with other devices. >>> In addition, once a user has upgraded to iCloud Drive, they cannot >>> downgrade back to Documents in the Cloud. >>> >>> <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385 >>> <http://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201385>> >>> <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264 >>> <https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6558264>> >>> >>> 2. iCloud Drive Is Not a Dropbox Replacement >>> >>> "The two services work differently. Take sharing, for instance. iCloud is >>> generally all about sharing, but it’s mostly about sharing your stuff with >>> your devices: that is, sharing the same stuff (calendars, music, mail, your >>> budget in Numbers, and your half-finished novel in Pages) among all of your >>> devices. Sharing stuff with other people, even other iCloud users, is not >>> easy, and worse, the options are limited and tightly focused (such as >>> specific photo streams or explicitly shared documents in Pages or Numbers)." >>> >>> Dropbox, on the other hand, lets you share folders and all the documents >>> therein with other Dropbox users - for collaboration with others working >>> on the same project, writing, editing etc. Doing the same thing with iCloud >>> Drive would be impossible. >>> >>> iCloud, unlike Dropbox, doesn’t store previous versions of a file (though >>> some individual apps do), nor does it let you restore deleted files. >>> >>> "Most importantly, though, iCloud Drive is not just a file sharing service. >>> Remember that apps on both Mac and iOS have a lot to say about what you can >>> do with their app libraries. This means that the Finder, in order to create >>> the illusion that iCloud Drive is just another drive with a bunch of >>> folders and yet respect those individual apps’ rights and requirements >>> concerning their own stuff, can behave unpredictably. You can’t tell by >>> sight, for example, which app libraries will accept which files until you >>> try them." >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Ronni >>> >>> On 13 Dec 2014, at 9:56 pm, Stephen Chape <chap...@bigpond.com >>> <mailto:chap...@bigpond.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> Just interested if anyone has moved from Dropbox to iCloud Drive ? >>>> And if so what you feel are the pros and cons ? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Stephen Chape >>>> >>>> Mac by choice >>>> Windows because my employer knew no better > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards, Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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