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switching home to mac, any more recommendations?

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nowind

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Jul 6, 2008
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Maybe I can get some advice.

Okay... I'm finally going to make the switch to mac. I'm planning on getting
rid of all of the desktops and laptops I have in my house. I'm fed up
with all of the problems that I've been dealing with.

So far my plans include the following: a 15" high-end macbook
pro, an airport extreme, a few airport express (house is pretty large, so I'm
planning on hooking up audio all around for parties and such), a 24" iMac for
the entertainment room, a 20" iMac for my room, and maybe a macbook air.

so... what else should I get? maybe an external hard drive to network
that all users could share? what would you recommend?

I'm just looking for a basic set-up that I could manage easily. I'm planning
on waiting for the revisions to the macbook pro to be made.

Thanks.
 
iPhone or 2 =p

Actually what you are planning to do sounds pretty good.

You might want to consider getting at least 1 Apple Bluetooth Keyboard.
Perhaps iWork (for keynote).
 
I would seriously consider a 1TB Time Capsule to back up all those computers. Otherwise, I'm just jealous of your master plan:rolleyes:
 
1 TB time capsule? would going with that eliminate the need for an
airport extreme?

iphone, I think I'll pass...

yeah the two iMacs would have bluetooth keyboards and mice.
 
A decent salary .

Oh and problems you've "been dealing with" sorry to break it to you but Macs are not perfect , different machine , different problems
 
marbles said:
A decent salary .

Oh and problems you've "been dealing with" sorry to break it to you but Macs are not perfect , different machine , different problems
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I think 1 terabyte might not be enough for 3 or 4 computers to share and to keep the backups. Please correct me guys if I m wrong , I think you can connect an external driver to airport Extreme . I would buy extreme and a huge external hard drive .

I would pass iphone and macbook air because for me camera function, where iphone is very weak (and no video recording) is more important than the touch screen , but this ME service may change my mind :))

I would buy one Imac and take my Macbook Pro into my room if i need it. :)
 
I remember leopards launch well. Came out right when I made the switch from pc to mac. leopard was like eating steak after chewing on microsoft's boiled leather sandwich for many years. Weird thing is, the biggest problem I ever had with leopard would have been considered a feature in windoze. Maybe its because some of us never really used tiger enough to notice the "flaws" in leopard?
 
marbles said:
A decent salary .

Oh and problems you've "been dealing with" sorry to break it to you but Macs are not perfect , different machine , different problems
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indeed... a decent salary. the problems are mainly OS. I understand your
concern but I think I'd feel more comfortable with all of the information
I've been reading over the past week or so on this forum.

DARKJ3DI said:
what about some Apple TV's?
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Read up on it. I'd rather not, being that all of the audio/visual that is in
place is doing just fine. From what I've gathered from this forum, if it isn't
broken, why change it?

chameleon81 said:
I think 1 terabyte might not be enough for 3 or 4 computers to share and to keep the backups. Please correct me guys if I m wrong , I think you can connect an external driver to airport Extreme . I would buy extreme and a huge external hard drive .

I would pass iphone and macbook air because for me camera function, where iphone is very weak (and no video recording) is more important than the touch screen , but this ME service may change my mind :))

I would buy one Imac and take my Macbook Pro into my room if i need it. :)
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Being that I'm replacing every computer, the 2 iMacs and macbook pro are
purely for replacements in the stations that are already in place. The
MBA is simply just an add-on that I've been considering, but no final decision has been made. The recommendation for a larger external hard drive for
back-up purposes is probably the route I will take.

Thanks for all of the feedback.
 
I'd get an airport extreme like you were considering and then plug some external 1 or 2 terabyte drives into that, or some crazy drobo like set up to back up all the computers. A few smaller (1tb or 500gb) drives may make more sense that way if one drive fails you'll have the other drives still ok. Makes good sense if you are backing up a house worth of computers :)

Perhaps some nice looking drives though to go with the apple feel - but then again im just being picky now.

I'm so very jealous of your ability to do that set up... ahhh to have my student loans paid off and a job to do that with... Some day :)

Edit: Although, maybe not now but later, i know you said all our audio/video stuff is good with your tvs, but having a appletv or well, better would be a mac mini hooked up to your main tv... if it's on the network you can watch (not only itunes stuff you might have) whatever you might have downloaded or stuff online etc. Maybe you don't download a bit now, but it's something else to think about.

Mini's make good little entertainment hubs and networking is so easy, with other computers they are ideal.... maybe something to think about next year if/when they upgrade it.

Other then that, AWESOME. Enjoy your new set up! We will expect news when it's all in place and some setup photos :D
 
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