To move from MBPro to Air? What will i gain/loose?

considering moving from MacBook Pro to new Air.
Like the lighter design. My MBPro is 2010 and I find it heavy and HOT to carry so am interested, but how will not having a firewire connection for backup and no disk drive change my life/usability?

I am one of those persons who has done what you contemplate. I used to have 2 MBP's, now I have an 11" 2010 MBA and a 13" 2011 MBA, and I dont feel I have lost much at all.
But understand, everyone's usage chacteristics are unique. I don't play any hi-end games, mainly stuff like Portal, some of the Lucas/Star Wars stuff and Flash. On these, the MBA just about maxes out on capability, if CPU temperatures hovering in the high 90 degrees celsius are any indication.
I do some vieo ripping and conversion, with no problem, and a bit of Adobe CS4 stuff. But mainly, my computer is used for hi-def video watching, web use, and Office applications. I have no complaint in the speed department, and I adore the lighting fast boots.
For Backup, I have had to ditch the speed of FW800 in favor of Thunderbolt. For this I use the LaCie Little-Big Disk-Thunderbolt 1 GB. Dang, is it fast, awefully close to that of an internal drive, if not possibly faster - I have not done any benchmarking. Hopefully someone will actually be shipping a T-Bolt/FW800 adapter soon (Hellooo Sonnet, are you listening?), so I can once again make use of my other external drives at native speeds.
The lack of DVD drive has cause me no pain whatsoever. I have an external Superdrive for my MBA's, but I rarely use them, except for occasional ripping. Since I prefer HD, I get most of my movies online now.
I really think T-Bolt has the potential to make FW800 go the way of SCSI, as far as notebooks go, but the next 6 mos will tell.
Overall, you just have to look at the specs of each platform ( MBP and MBA), and see if the benefits outweigh the "costs". For me, it was a definite, yes.

Similar Messages

HT1449 After moving music and movies from my MacBook Air to an external hard drive, do I create a new iTunes music and media folder on my computer then add more music and movies, then will I be able to move the computer music/media to the hard drive musci

I need to move the music and movies from my MacBook Air (original) to an external hard drive, after I do this, do I create a new music folder and media folder on my computer to load music/movies in via the dedicatd external drive and then would I be able to move the newly imported to the external drive which would be my main site of storage?

No, do it all in one go and henceforth only use the library located on the external drive.
iTunes: How to move [or copy] your music to a new computer [or another drive] - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4527
Quick answer if you let iTunes manage your music: Copy the entire iTunes folder (and in doing so all its subfolders and files) intact to the other drive. Start iTunes with the option (shift on Windows) key held down and guide it to the new location of the library.

Bought HDMI adapter to play movies from my iPad but it will stop every few minutes, Bought HDMI adapter to play movies from my iPad but it will stop every few minutes

Once I begin to play a movie from my iPad to the TV using the HDMI adapter it will pause and lose sound every few minutes. I am using the video app and the movie plays fine if not connected.
I have also checked to make sure that everything is connected properly.

Well, I thought it was solved... or at least solved enough to live with. I had originally installed 2.6.31 from testing to try and fix this issue, and it substantially improved, but now it's gotten worse again. At home on a WPA network, it drops maybe once or twice a day. Here on this unencrypted network, it's going out once or twice every half hour. Same error messages as above.
I tried reinstalling, but ended up with the same errors almost right away. This bites!
Anyone have any other ideas to try?
Thanks,
Scott
EDIT: I tried rebuilding rt2x00-rt71w-fw from source. PKGBUILD has the incorrect source link. So I actually went to the ralink site, downloaded the (hopefully correct) driver package, unzipped it and copied rt73.bin to /usr/lib/firmware --overwrote the existing copy. I haven't got any errors yet, but it's only been 20 minutes so far. We'll see. I'm not sure if it's the identical rt73.bin that's currently in the repos or if it's different. Forgot to compare the two before I overwrote the old one.
EDIT2: No luck with the different rt73.bin. Also tried the new Ubuntu karmin beta and got the same errors -- and a freeze when I pulled the adapter out when it stopped working.
Last edited by firecat53 (2009-10-12 22:27:24)

What will I gain/lose by moving from Expression Media to Lightroom

I've been using Microsoft products in general for years, and in the context of what I'm asking here, the Expression suite since Version 1. Expression Design doesn't come anywhere near Photoshop CS5, which I've just bought, but as well as an editing program I need a decent asset management product. At the moment I use Expression Media mainly to catalog my photographs, but also use the HTML export function to create quick slide shows for the web. Microsoft has not updated Media since version 2 (not that that is a problem in itself) but has also sold it to Phase One, who haven't yet said what they will do with it.
My questions are, will Lightroom provide the same or better functionality as Media did as an asset management tool (since Adobe at least seem to be continuing to develop the program), and what else will I gain from it. At £200 it's not a huge investment, but I wouldn't like to think I may be spending it for no real advantage.
Thanks, from an enthusiastic amateur photograper.

function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
The QCC wrote:
Lightroom is first and foremost a media manager.
I suspect many would have reservations about this. Lightroom is a very limited media asset manager. I do not think this is a design goal for the application. It is designed to manage raw files from supported cameras and some other files - jpg, psd and tiff - and track videos taken with the camera - that's about it.
Many would argue most of the development energy has gone into the dev module.
Another thing to consider is performance. Because LR is attempting to faithfully reproduce the image as per edits to the dev module it builds and updates a large preview library which has performance and disk space implications.
As suggested, try before you buy.

I have just purchased an iPad Air and downloaded a movie in iTunes. I cannot access the iTunes movie from my MacBook Air?

Why can I not access purchased movies in iTunes from my MacBook Air if I purchased thru my iPad Air?

If you rented the movie, it would not be transferable.
If you purchased it through iTunes, it should be transferable. Check the sync setting in the Movies tab in iTunes while you have your iPad connected.

What will i gain from SL to ML?

I'm presently running a 2007 iMac desktop
Version 10.6.8
2.66 GHz IC2duo
3GB 800 MHz
I like a lot of Snow Leopard users saw all the horror stories about Lion & decided not to update. But I'm hearing subsequent updates & the newer Mountain Lion has fixed a lot of problems. What if any significant will I gain from ML & is it worth it or should I just stick with SL?

Start by looking at the new features of ML (http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/).
Read application that do not work under ML and require keeping SL around somewhere: http://roaringapps.com/apps:table
Your system is older, so will run slower than some, and upping RAM to its max through macsales.com or crucial.com will help as 4 GB RAM is viewed an "bare minimum".

How do I transfer my movies from my I pad2 to my pc, I loose my back up into my pc, but I still having those movies into my I pad2?

How can I transfer my current movies from my I pad 2 to my Pc ( windows xp ), if I deleted my back up fom I tunes media folder? thank you!.

Migration didn't work for me on the music side of things either. What did work however was transferring the entire iTunes folder over to my new computer. Everything switched then, and it was just like iTunes on my old mac. Maybe if you can find the library files in there or something and transfer them over.

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

My computer space is full and i want to remove some of my itunes movies/ t.v shows from my computer but i dont want to loose them completely how do i make it so i can find them under my purchased on icloud?

You can't do that. iCloud does function that way.
Allan

Im running mac os x 10.6.8, at present. should i update and if so to snow leopard or lion. what will i gain, thanks

im running a mac on osx 10.6.8 at present. should i update to lion or leopard and if so what would i gain. can you put it in laymans terms as im not realy computer lit..thanks

First, check your computers model and year - https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do.
If considering the OS 10.8, ensure that your model is supported for the 10.8 OS - http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/.
Also remember to ensure that all your other applications are supported by the new OS - http://www.roaringapps.com.
Lion System System Requirements (10.7) - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion System Requirements
Mountain Lion System Requirements (10.8) - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5444.

If I move from Firewire 400 to 800 will download speed of video increase?

Hi,
I have just upgraded from a MacMini (which had firewire 400) to a new iMac which only has firewire 800. I have a 3 year old JVC digital camcorder (GR-D340EK) with ilink out and previously used a Belkin cable to connect to my Macmini. My question is if I now purchase an ilink to FW800 cable for the iMac will the video download at twice the rate or am I just as well to purchase a cheaper FW 400 to 800 adapter, which I understand would only give me FW400 speeds (and could be used for other devices too)?
Any advice guys?
Regards
Shakey

Either way, the speed of the connection will be the same. The device itself is FireWire 400, so it will not go any faster.
You can often find the cable for about the same price as the adapter. What you need, if the camera has the smaller FireWire connector, is a 9-pin to 4-pin cable, like this one
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/1394B94036/

If I reset and erase settings and all content from the iPhone 5 what will happen to my phone

My phone is turning off from 30% battery all the time and it's very slow I was going to erase and reset all conent and settings but I just want to know will I still have everything on my phone I don't care if I look pictures etc will the phone be like factory please help

Ruth ~ Welcome to the Support Communities. Did you look in the manual? ...See Reset iPhone settings on p.150 here:
iPhone User Guide for iOS 7

I need help.. there's a colored lines in the screen of my ipad 2, all support service centers are 5hours away from my place.. what will i do? please help :(

i dont know what to do, please help..

It sounds like it needs to be returned to Apple . Call and arrange to post it to them and let the experts see what needs to be done.

HT1657 I rented a movie from iTunes but it is not showing up in the Movies section. What do I do?

I just rented and downloaded a movie from iTunes and now it will not show up in my iTunes library. What do I do?
It DOES show up in iTunes on my iPhone. It DOES NOT show up on my desktop.
Any thoughts? Ideas?
I rented it for a flight I get on in 3 hours. Any quick help would be great.
Thanks.

If the computer iTunes is signed into the same account then contact iTunes:
How to report/refund an issue with your iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, or iBooks Store purchase

Do I need multicam in order to create a movie from multiple cameras?

Do I need multicam in order to create a movie from multiple cameras? The old fashioned way is just to simply put multiple video clips into multiple video tracks in Final Cut, right? Then I can transition the tracks as I see fit.
Multicam in Final Cut Pro simply improves upon this by hard synching timecodes right?
As an amateur, do I really need multicam features in Final Cut Pro in order to make a movie from multiple camera angles?

Will it make your editing tasks more efficient? Not
likely. Multicam is an advanced feature of FCP. It
requires knowing how most of the application's basic
operations are performed.
I have to disagree with bog in that multicam is all about efficiency and being able to quickly set-up and edit what could normally take a lot longer. But he is totally correct in that it is a strange set-up with some strange behaviors so if you don't know what you're doing and plan accordingly it could take a lot longer and be a lot more frustrating than the 'old fashioned' way.
I think it's also important to note that multi-cam is way more than just the "real time" switching of the multiclip in the viewer as it plays back. If you can take time to learn the ins and outs of multi-cam then you can use some features on some jobs and other features at other times. An amateur can do anything that the FCP software because it's there in front of you so play play play!

How to remove movies from itunes when connected to my ipad 2,

I ve a question regarding my ipad 2, I ve syncd some movies from my laptop to ipad 2 but nw i have deleted dem frm ipad but wenevr I connect ipad wid itunes it shows me dose movies again and bcz of tht i cant add odr movies. how 2 remove dese movies from itunes to add more movies.

when the name of the ipad appears in ur itunes click on it. then click on the movies tab that appears next to summary. this is where u need to go to select what movies u want to actually sync to the ipad. if u keep movies selected then they will keep syncing over. if u unselect a movie from this list then it will unsync from the device. click apply at the bottom to save changes and sync.

To move from MBPro to Air? What will i gain/loose?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for