Migrating from and synching with imac

I am about to purchase the 13'' 2.53ghz macbook pro and will migrate from my iMac. What is the best way to ensure that new work (documents/files) on my macbook pro or my imac is synched with the other machine? Would I use my idisk? If so how? Thanks J

Hi
I too have an iMac and a MacBook which I like to keep synced (all documents the same on both machines).
I would have to second what the first reply says. Use a USB drive or a networked drive.
I have tried iDisk and quite frankly found it horribly slow and unreliable. If you don't turn on iDisK sync then you only have access to stuff if you have internet access, and if you do turn on iDisk sync it is very unreliable and slow at up loading new files , so I found I could never trust that a file would be there for me when I wanted it next. It is a nice idea, but for me anyway it does not work well enough yet.
I use a USB stick and just plug it into which ever Mac i happen to be using. This has the advantage for me over a networked drive because I can use it anywhere, I don't have to be connected to my network.
Of course mobile me will keep data like calendars and address book synced, and I have to say it does a good job there. It keeps this info synced for me across both Macs, an iPhone and iPod Touch. It is just the iDisk bit of things I find a bit clunky and slow.
Hope this helps
Paul

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