Background situation:
My wife would like to start taking pictures professionally and we have decided it is time to upgrade our iMac. It is a 2.4 C2D with 4 gig of ram, etc...
But, we'd like to wait until 2012 to get a new one. I offered mine up for sale for $600, thinking it'd never be accepted and it was snatched instantly (coworker). So, now I cannot back out and am going to sell it to him. I plan to wait until the next gen iMac is released to get max bang for buck.
I also have a 2010 MBP i5 15", which I just upgraded the RAM and HDD in.
Here is my current setup: iMac on the desk with Airport extreme hardwired. I have a printer connected to the iMac, which is shared over my network. I have an external 2 TB WD HD connected to the USB on my Airport and both computers can access it.
If I remove the iMac from the equation, how am I supposed to optimize this setup?
Can I put a hub on the USB port of the Airport and put both the printer and HDD on it? (HDD is partitioned for media storage and Time Machine backup.) Or do I connect the printer to the airport, and have my backups only occur when the laptop is at the desk? Is anyone else running a similar setup that can provide assistance?
All of this will be moot if the wife cannot handle using the MBP (loves the iMac) and i am forced to get the current 27" iMac.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.
My wife would like to start taking pictures professionally and we have decided it is time to upgrade our iMac. It is a 2.4 C2D with 4 gig of ram, etc...
But, we'd like to wait until 2012 to get a new one. I offered mine up for sale for $600, thinking it'd never be accepted and it was snatched instantly (coworker). So, now I cannot back out and am going to sell it to him. I plan to wait until the next gen iMac is released to get max bang for buck.
I also have a 2010 MBP i5 15", which I just upgraded the RAM and HDD in.
Here is my current setup: iMac on the desk with Airport extreme hardwired. I have a printer connected to the iMac, which is shared over my network. I have an external 2 TB WD HD connected to the USB on my Airport and both computers can access it.
If I remove the iMac from the equation, how am I supposed to optimize this setup?
Can I put a hub on the USB port of the Airport and put both the printer and HDD on it? (HDD is partitioned for media storage and Time Machine backup.) Or do I connect the printer to the airport, and have my backups only occur when the laptop is at the desk? Is anyone else running a similar setup that can provide assistance?
All of this will be moot if the wife cannot handle using the MBP (loves the iMac) and i am forced to get the current 27" iMac.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you.