I posted this in one of the other threads but realise this is probably the best place to ask my questions.
As a Mac newbie (having used PCs for 25 years) I've just recently bought the 1.8GHz 13" 256GB Air with a view to migrating to an Apple environment throughout (In the family we currently have an iPad, 2 x iPad 2s and 2 x iPhone 4s).
My plan was to use it as my main machine and migrate away from my Windows machine which I have pretty much done. I also bought a 3TB Time Capsule with a plan to use this as my main router (migrating away from my old NetGear one) connected to my existing 16 port gigabit switch.
My music is on a NAS which is streamed throughout the house using Sonos (a brilliant solution).
The only thing I've yet to migrate across to my Air is my iTunes library - which is predominantly my iTunes purchases and the backups of my IOS devices (currently totalling about 90GB I think). I tend to put music on my IOS devices manually - not entirely sure why but a historic thing from when I got my first iPod years ago and didn't trust all the syncing.
My video/movies/TV shows are delivered centrally by Windows 7/MyMovies onto my TV, and a couple of TVs upstairs, so unless I can find a very flexible Apple solution to replace it I'm pretty happy with that.
I travel quite a bit so my Air comes with me (along with my iPad 2 and my iPhone 4) so as it is my main machine it disappears from the house - not a big problem as the music is still there on the NAS and all the video content is still there too as that is a completely separate solution.
So, my questions are:
1. Should I migrate my iTunes library to my Air or should I migrate it to a central location (a NAS) to save disk space on my Air? Obviously if it was on my Air I could sync my iPad/iPhone when I was away from home and when I was at home my iTunes library would be backed up to my Time Capsule.
2. If I bought an external drive for the Air (but didn't necessarily have it connected all the time) would Time Capsule still backup the contents of the external drive when it was connected to my Air and I was at home?
Hopefully in the future the IOS devices will be able to backup directly to the Time Capsule (what are the chances of that?) so that I wouldn't have to store the iTunes content locally on my Air.
My longer term goals are to migrate my son away from his two year old Win7 machine to an Air or a Pro over the next six months and my missus is happy with her iPad 2 and her iPhone 4 (for the time being at least!).
Is my plan sensible or am I missing something blindingly obvious?
As a Mac newbie (having used PCs for 25 years) I've just recently bought the 1.8GHz 13" 256GB Air with a view to migrating to an Apple environment throughout (In the family we currently have an iPad, 2 x iPad 2s and 2 x iPhone 4s).
My plan was to use it as my main machine and migrate away from my Windows machine which I have pretty much done. I also bought a 3TB Time Capsule with a plan to use this as my main router (migrating away from my old NetGear one) connected to my existing 16 port gigabit switch.
My music is on a NAS which is streamed throughout the house using Sonos (a brilliant solution).
The only thing I've yet to migrate across to my Air is my iTunes library - which is predominantly my iTunes purchases and the backups of my IOS devices (currently totalling about 90GB I think). I tend to put music on my IOS devices manually - not entirely sure why but a historic thing from when I got my first iPod years ago and didn't trust all the syncing.
My video/movies/TV shows are delivered centrally by Windows 7/MyMovies onto my TV, and a couple of TVs upstairs, so unless I can find a very flexible Apple solution to replace it I'm pretty happy with that.
I travel quite a bit so my Air comes with me (along with my iPad 2 and my iPhone 4) so as it is my main machine it disappears from the house - not a big problem as the music is still there on the NAS and all the video content is still there too as that is a completely separate solution.
So, my questions are:
1. Should I migrate my iTunes library to my Air or should I migrate it to a central location (a NAS) to save disk space on my Air? Obviously if it was on my Air I could sync my iPad/iPhone when I was away from home and when I was at home my iTunes library would be backed up to my Time Capsule.
2. If I bought an external drive for the Air (but didn't necessarily have it connected all the time) would Time Capsule still backup the contents of the external drive when it was connected to my Air and I was at home?
Hopefully in the future the IOS devices will be able to backup directly to the Time Capsule (what are the chances of that?) so that I wouldn't have to store the iTunes content locally on my Air.
My longer term goals are to migrate my son away from his two year old Win7 machine to an Air or a Pro over the next six months and my missus is happy with her iPad 2 and her iPhone 4 (for the time being at least!).
Is my plan sensible or am I missing something blindingly obvious?