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New 11" MBA user: some suggestions and opinions needed from the Air family.

Joeytpg

Joeytpg

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hello guys (and girls), I'm a long time mac user, I'm a musician and voice over actor and I recently (yesterday) purchased a 2011 MBA 11" from a fellow forumite fro, the marketplace (nice guy, and smooth transaction. Haven't gotten the machine yet, but I feel it's a straight up, good deal).

it's a 128gb/i5/4gb ram machine and I need some directions on somethings from you guys:

1) 128gb is not enough space, so I'm going to buy a small external drive to have my music library, iphoto library and running some heavy programs like Logic. Which one you guys recommend that's less than 100 bucks?

2) I want to create a partition and have one side as pure storage and the other one install iphoto and Logic. HOW to do this last one?

thank you guys, really appreciate this.
 
Joeytpg said:
hello guys (and girls), I'm a long time mac user, I'm a musician and voice over actor and I recently (yesterday) purchased a 2011 MBA 11" from a fellow forumite fro, the marketplace (nice guy, and smooth transaction. Haven't gotten the machine yet, but I feel it's a straight up, good deal).

it's a 128gb/i5/4gb ram machine and I need some directions on somethings from you guys:

1) 128gb is not enough space, so I'm going to buy a small external drive to have my music library, iphoto library and running some heavy programs like Logic. Which one you guys recommend that's less than 100 bucks?

2) I want to create a partition and have one side as pure storage and the other one install iphoto and Logic. HOW to do this last one?

thank you guys, really appreciate this.
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Here's a link to a 750GB Western Digital Passport drive for $92.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit...890&sr=8-13&keywords=western+digital+passport

For $107, you can get 1TB.

http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digit...890&sr=8-12&keywords=western+digital+passport

But since you asked for less than $100... :D

Why do you want to partition? The less partitions the better, easier to manage. You can install the apps on the MBA and use the external drive as storage. I guess I am not understanding your second question.
 
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thank you for those links. :D

Now, what I mean is, I'll install the app on the machine, but how can I handle the library (iphoto for example) from the external drive? I've never done it, so maybe it's a very simple step but I'm a noob at this. Same thing with iTunes, how can I have the library on an external drive?
 
Joeytpg said:
thank you for those links. :D

Now, what I mean is, I'll install the app on the machine, but how can I handle the library (iphoto for example) from the external drive? I've never done it, so maybe it's a very simple step but I'm a noob at this. Same thing with iTunes, how can I have the library on an external drive?
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Ahhh, got it. Yes, you can have your iTunes library reside entirely on the external drive, or split (like music on your MBA and videos on the external drive) with a little more work.

https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=11227457#post11227457

The iPhoto library is one big file you can move.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1229
 
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