Looking to leave OSX for iOS...photo storage?

[sleepydinosaur]

I have a MacBook Air (2011). Great machine. But it sits and doesnt get used. I was thinking about selling it and going with an iPad 4. Everything I do can be done on iOS, so that leaves me with this dilemma.

I have iPhoto running and always updating with pics from PhotoStream. If I l walk away from OSX, what would my alternatives be? Obviously all the pics I take on my iPhone would be saved on the device, but how could I back that up to save space and still be able to view them?

 

[sers]

You may want to consider a NAS such as a synology diskstation. You'd be able to store all your photos on that, along with other files such as movies, music, documents, PDFs, etc.

 

[Small White Car]

Maybe something like Dropbox?

If you store them in the 'Photos' folder on dropbox it actually makes a web-gallery per each folder. Or you can put them in a private folder if you don't want them to be viewed on the web.

You'd probably end up having to pay for one of the not-free levels of Dropbox, but it's not that expensive and you can use it for other stuff too.

It's not the ideal solution, but I think anyone going pure-iOS will have to face a couple of "not ideal" solutions for the next few years. It's exciting that you're trying it, though! I'm not actually trying to be discouraging.