Thinkpad E550 - great machine but I want to upgrade to a 250GB SSD
Have a new E550 and it's a great choice. The E550 has an optional upgrade from the factory of having a 128GB SDD, either a Sandisk or a Samsung PM851. But I need a 250GB SSD so I plan to buy one and transfer the system across to the new drive. I'll use the current 500GB HDD for backup.
I plan to purchase a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO. The question is what is the best way to go about transfering everything across to the new drive? I have heard that the Samsung software that comes with the EVO does not always work well. I also understand that the existing restore partition wont work once transfered across to the SSD, so I am wondering what I do about that? Anyone got this to work already, or have any tips?
I figure that an alternative would be to do a fresh install of windows 8.1 on the new drive, but I'm not sure where my Windows licence key can be found? Thanks
http://www.howtogeek.com/97242/how-to-migrate-windows-7-to-a-solid-state-drive/ Samsung's SSDs 840, 850, PRO, are blacklisted due to sever TRIM bug deleteing data : http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/samsung-ssd-bug-wiping-data/ https://blog.algolia.com/when-solid-state-drives-are-not-that-solid/
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I know InDesign backwards compatibility and version conversion (or lack thereof) can be a contentious subject, and I know it's been discussed here at great length (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/641138?start=0&tstart=0), but I thought it might be worth a try to present my production department's dilemma. What to do when InDesign CS2 is getting more and more buggy on our Macs, but moving to CS5 would make our files unusable for most of our clients?
We've been putting off dealing with this issue as long as we could, but it's becoming more and more urgent as Adobe releases new CS versions.
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I'm the production manager/art director for a small inhouse art department. We have 5 art department Macs and 7 editorial department Macs running CS2 (InDesign, Illustrator and PhotoShop) in 10.5 or 10.4, depending on the Mac.
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I'd love to just give them PDFs... But these files need to be editable so that the newspapers can change them to match their own fonts and styles, or edit them to fit, or translate them into other languages. (We create them with generic fonts such as Helvetica and Times that all newspapers are bound to already own, since we can't distribute fonts along with the files).
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Trying to create editable PDFs... but many of the clients we have are not particularly tech-savvy, and I have to admit I'm not sure how to do this in an efficient and user-friendly way.
Buying CS5 for just department, and digging through eBay and other channels to buy just enough copies of CS3 and CS4 to use as a bridge back to CS2. But this just seems like such a clunky and inefficient solution that would significantly slow down all those nice production workflows I spent so much time streamlining.
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Clone your system.
You can also turn off updates.
Are you on Lion? And already have iTunes 11? You can manaully download and go to the support page and see what changes were made and other requirements.
There is a forum for issues with itunes (but not with the software license and agreement)
iTunes 11.1.3This version of iTunes resolves an issue where the equalizer may not work as expected and improves performance when switching views in large iTunes libraries. This update also includes additional minor bug fixes. Nov 5, 2013
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/
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