Hello;
I currently have:
a 3 month old Macbook with about 80GB of photos,
an external 250 GB hardrive that serves as back for the laptop and also has a good number of home DV videos not on the laptop
about 50 DVDs for the kids and my wife and I.
I have hooked up the laptop to the 42" tv as an large monitor for Front Row shows for relatives and the kids; it looks superb and the kids love it. THe problem is that I end up keeping the MacBook hooked up to the TV and lose use of the Macbook while the kids are watching.
I would like to set up something where we can access all photos, movies, (ripped) dvds on the tv from a central repository-a media library. It looks like I could view photos, movies etc with AppleTV, but I know I will (eventually) exceed the higher storage of AppleTV.
How do I get more storage to work with AppleTV? I was thinking of getting a 1TB firewire drive so I have room to grow but I read that you can't add it to AppleTV?
I also want to be able to backup photos and movies that I either put on the laptop or the external drive or any new Mac I get. I saw that time capsule can do this but it cannot be Raid(ed).
The combination of time capsule, appletv and extra drive seems expensive (and I think I would have to get a 'n' router too has we have verizon fios g router).
What is the best (cheapest) way to be able to do this? I thought maybe a Mac Mini with an external HD, hooked up directly to the TV, but then was wondering how to back up my data as well to that computer hard drive.
Sorry for the noob questions, but I can't seem to find a solution.
Thanks
I currently have:
a 3 month old Macbook with about 80GB of photos,
an external 250 GB hardrive that serves as back for the laptop and also has a good number of home DV videos not on the laptop
about 50 DVDs for the kids and my wife and I.
I have hooked up the laptop to the 42" tv as an large monitor for Front Row shows for relatives and the kids; it looks superb and the kids love it. THe problem is that I end up keeping the MacBook hooked up to the TV and lose use of the Macbook while the kids are watching.
I would like to set up something where we can access all photos, movies, (ripped) dvds on the tv from a central repository-a media library. It looks like I could view photos, movies etc with AppleTV, but I know I will (eventually) exceed the higher storage of AppleTV.
How do I get more storage to work with AppleTV? I was thinking of getting a 1TB firewire drive so I have room to grow but I read that you can't add it to AppleTV?
I also want to be able to backup photos and movies that I either put on the laptop or the external drive or any new Mac I get. I saw that time capsule can do this but it cannot be Raid(ed).
The combination of time capsule, appletv and extra drive seems expensive (and I think I would have to get a 'n' router too has we have verizon fios g router).
What is the best (cheapest) way to be able to do this? I thought maybe a Mac Mini with an external HD, hooked up directly to the TV, but then was wondering how to back up my data as well to that computer hard drive.
Sorry for the noob questions, but I can't seem to find a solution.
Thanks