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Resolved I'm Going to Sell Retina MacBook Pro and Live on Retina iPad Mini, BUT I NEED........
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Yes, you can set a Shared Photo Stream to only be visible to yourself and make it so that it is not public on iCloud.com. The photos you upload to the shared photo stream do not delete once you delete them from an iOS device. Also once iOS7 launches, you can upload 5 minute long 720p videos to your Photo Streams as well.
I also highly recommend iTunes Match. I had tens of thousands of songs and a great deal of movies sitting in hard drives. With iTunes Match they are all available from the iTunes store and I do not have to store them on anything. When I want to listen to a song that is not on my iPad or iPhone there is only about a one second delay as it starts to download. Then after a week or two I just clear them off again and regain the space. Hopefully soon all movies and music with Match will be streamed like they are on Apple TV.
I would also use Dropbox as well. I personally use it and it auto uploads pictures from from your tablet and/or phone to the service either over 4G or WiFi and you can set that. I have about 10 GB of free space. You might also want to look into Flickr. I have not used it with iOS before but I know they have a ton of free space now too.
Mac Mini is also great. If you get a Mini in addition to iOS devices you can hook it up to a TimeCapsule or some kind of NAS. If you get a NAS all most all of them now allow you to access them over the internet. If you go this route PogoPlus is amazing! You have the NAS hard drive in your home and you can upload and download to it from your mobile devices!
I don't understand your motivation here.
Your rMBP doesn't have a big enough drive so you are moving to an iPad with a smaller drive. Now if the smaller drive is ok because you can use a cloud service, why can't you do that with your rMBP?
Your rMBP doesn't have a big enough drive so you are moving to an iPad with a smaller drive. Now if the smaller drive is ok because you can use a cloud service, why can't you do that with your rMBP?
Because my MBP, my main computer has always had everything on it. I see absolutely, absolutely no point in having a laptop if it doesn't hold everything of mine. Within the past few years i've learned my habits when it comes to how I use my devices and my MBP is my main hub. Having only a bit would not make it worthwhile, as seen here. I could do this with my MacBook, but I don't want to. I want my MBP to have everything on it. To the point of ridding my MBP and living on the cloud if need be; admittedly as cheap as possible.
I agree this is ridiculous, all the judging on how I use my devices, but they are my devices and I prefer to use them this way because they've allowed me to succeed in the past 8 years in regards to my finances, my health, wealth, etc. This works for me and truth be told I found my answer. So I'll end this thread; but boy has MR's users changed from being incredibly helpful to judging. Not that I care, nor i'll ever see your faces in real life so i'll continue asking for support when I need it.
Those of you that did offer solutions, thank you. All the others, i have nothing to say to you. Nothing.
All the best.
(Sucks we won't see iPad's on 9/10)
btw, i'm going w/ dropbox and maybe even shared photos streams, so long as dropbox includes videos that i filmed too; again, thanks to all who helped.
Because my MBP, my main computer has always had everything on it. I see absolutely, absolutely no point in having a laptop if it doesn't hold everything of mine. Within the past few years i've learned my habits when it comes to how I use my devices and my MBP is my main hub. Having only a bit would not make it worthwhile, as seen here. I could do this with my MacBook, but I don't want to. I want my MBP to have everything on it. To the point of ridding my MBP and living on the cloud if need be; admittedly as cheap as possible.
I agree this is ridiculous, all the judging on how I use my devices, but they are my devices and I prefer to use them this way because they've allowed me to succeed in the past 8 years in regards to my finances, my health, wealth, etc. This works for me and truth be told I found my answer. So I'll end this thread; but boy has MR's users changed from being incredibly helpful to judging. Not that I care, nor i'll ever see your faces in real life so i'll continue asking for support when I need it.
Those of you that did offer solutions, thank you. All the others, i have nothing to say to you. Nothing.
All the best.
(Sucks we won't see iPad's on 9/10)
btw, i'm going w/ dropbox and maybe even shared photos streams, so long as dropbox includes videos that i filmed too; again, thanks to all who helped.
You'll love the shared photo streams as well when you see how easy it works. Dropbox does upload videos, over WiFi only, but I think they throttle them because it is super slow over my WiFi and I have fine connection.
All I can say is ouch I would not shell out my macbook retina for iPad why don't keep the macbook or get a air for more complex tasks and use the iPad on the fly or in bed thats my advise.
If you're willing to live in the cloud with your only computing device why will you do it with your iPad but not your MBP. But we all develop habits that may not make sense to others. Have you considered getting a bunch of 64GB SD cards for your MBP? That and the cloud services you're considering for the iPad should solve your issues.
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To be fair, if someone started a thread asking which is the best hammer to repetedly hit yourself in the face with, how helpful would you be?
I just downloaded th Flickr app for my iPhone. Sucks its not available for the iPad but I would assume it still works all the same.
Well, I don't have an iPad yet as i'm holding out for an iPad Mini retina and will definitely bite the bullet on it unless the specs suck so much and then i'll get the iPad 5; presumably by X-Mas time. I make this post now cause I'm wanting to sell my rMBP before the next gen is introduced so as to make the most $$$ I can.
Might be worth stopping into a store and checking...could make your decision easier?
Unless someone can answer for you that's got an iPad currently..