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MBA owners , how do you handle small capacity?
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I had everything I need installed, included a Ubuntu virtual machine.
76GB free space remaining.
So, i'm handling fine. I also have an external HDD USB 3.0 for the media stuff (and btw, a windows 8 virtual machine that runs very nice) , but I barely use it, these day everything is in the cloud.
76GB free space remaining.
So, i'm handling fine. I also have an external HDD USB 3.0 for the media stuff (and btw, a windows 8 virtual machine that runs very nice) , but I barely use it, these day everything is in the cloud.
With a 256GB SSD on my new 2012 - 11" Air, I am able to store 2 VM's running XP and Oracle Linux. I also run several programs to manage systems, databases and applications. Since I also do invoicing for client work, I have several business applications such as MS Office, Quickbooks and Adobe's suite of design tools. Add all of the ancillary apps like, ftp, ssh-term and what-not, I am using almost 150GB of that SSD. The remaining files like my iTunes library and iPhoto are stored on my external 4TB raid drive (Western Digital My Book).
At first I thought 256 would be 'squeezing it' but with almost 100GB free, it actually works out quite well. I am surprised that I can get all of my work done with this setup. I can connect to any of my clients using their VPN connection using one of the VM's and still have a little fun to play Civilization and Diablo 3. I don't know what else to put on this little guy that I would need to have with me when I am away from base.
At first I thought 256 would be 'squeezing it' but with almost 100GB free, it actually works out quite well. I am surprised that I can get all of my work done with this setup. I can connect to any of my clients using their VPN connection using one of the VM's and still have a little fun to play Civilization and Diablo 3. I don't know what else to put on this little guy that I would need to have with me when I am away from base.
Well that was an informative post.
Sorry
Back to My Mac (BTTM) is the ability to effectively map your external hard drive at home (or Time Capsual) if you have one so that effectively it's available on your MBA wherever you are (provided of course you're connected to the internet. Its pops up in your finder and you can use it to stream your itunes by pointing iTunes to the library back to your hard drive etc.
Its great and as I said, if you manage to set it up correctly works really well and takes away the need to ever have a larger capacity physical drive on your MBA again.
There is a sticky at the top of this board that explains more
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/429956/
I moved back to using my Windows PC more. I've never had a mac product that actually forced me to use Windows before this one.
it work really fine.. Load a little bit longer(instead of 4 seconds, it may take 6 seconds) but the playing part it's really normal.
If you want to try anyway, you can just copy your game folder on a hdd and try starting from that folder.
Sorry
Back to My Mac (BTTM) is the ability to effectively map your external hard drive at home (or Time Capsual) if you have one so that effectively it's available on your MBA wherever you are (provided of course you're connected to the internet. Its pops up in your finder and you can use it to stream your itunes by pointing iTunes to the library back to your hard drive etc.
Its great and as I said, if you manage to set it up correctly works really well and takes away the need to ever have a larger capacity physical drive on your MBA again.
There is a sticky at the top of this board that explains more
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/429956/
Thanks
Slightly OT, and apologies if this can be found elsewhere, but:
Could anyone who's just got their 2012 13in 128GB MBA out of the box (or remembers when they did), tell me exactly how much free space there is brand new?
i.e. 128GB less the operating system etc.
I know I can look at the display models in Apple Store, but they've got demo images / music / movies and usually at least MS Office on there too.
Thanks.
Could anyone who's just got their 2012 13in 128GB MBA out of the box (or remembers when they did), tell me exactly how much free space there is brand new?
i.e. 128GB less the operating system etc.
I know I can look at the display models in Apple Store, but they've got demo images / music / movies and usually at least MS Office on there too.
Thanks.
Works fine when you have internet access! Some of us travel.
These. It's a work/travel/backup computer. Not my photo's, movies, or majority of music and data.
I'm on 128 GB and I'm dying just to get another byte. I already filled her up in just 3 days. But all I did is install the very very essential requirements such as Apps, music, documents and photos. The movies can stay with external (GRRRRR....).
I need and want 512 GB.
External isn't for me. I curse it. Whenever you travel, you have to dig for it. More cables to clutter. And those expensive $200 price tags. I want internal storage. But judging from the prices and the 768 GB SSD limit, I have a very strong feeling that a 2TB $100 SSD isn't coming any time soon.
I'm not referring to an external drive. Did you read the first link in that post, in bold text?
Well i bought iTunes Match last year, after quite some problems with synchronizing on the first months it now works very well and saves me about 20 gigs of data
Are you...me!? Your self description bears an uncanny degree of similarity to mine, sans the fact that I don't play WoW. And I guess I only work full-time in between school semesters. But still...