Ready to take the plunge
I have wanted to make the switch for about 6 months now. I made the mistake of being impatient and not waiting for the Macbook to release so I bought a dell laptop. I have regretted that ever since. The dell is not a bad pc but I want a Mac. My wife immediately made the dell "hers". I can't get any time on it now so I can now do what I wanted to do in the first place---buy the Mac I wanted. I am going to purchase a Macbook. I will be getting the white 2.0 ghz. What advice I need is about the hd size. I don't do much except download music and surf and email but I wanted to know if I started loading it with pics how fast would the 60g stock hd fill up. Should I get the 80g or what? By the way I am going to get the upgrade to 1gig of RAM. Another question I have is if I need more space should I just invest in an external hd. I have heard it doesn't make much sense to have a large hd on your laptop. Any help you could give this Mac Noob would be great.
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80 is better, but i think 60 is enough if you just download some music and put some pictures in
I just don't want to spend the dough if there isn't a need. Thanks for your help, though.
I'd go for the bigger HD + an external drive in anticipation of Leopard (for Time Machine, dontcha know).
Yeah, I have had some questions about how time machine will work ever since I saw the WWDC keynote. They showed what it can do but not how it does it.
It backs up your files to another drive automatically, if you so desire. Might be good to use if you have a lot of critical files and you don't bother with backups.
So it backs up everything automatically. Can you tell it what to backup and when?
Is this a good move??? Thanks!
Yes, i also ordered an SATA enclosure which has both USB and firewire connectivity.
Thanks again.
I'd go for the bigger HD + an external drive in anticipation of Leopard (for Time Machine, dontcha know).
I'd advise against paying the extra for a larger drive. The drives in these MacBooks are so easy to upgrade that you'd be much better off buying the machine with the 60 GB then upgrading the internal yourself and putting the old drive in an external case.
I personally have multiple extrenal drives for different purposes and I plan to do what I advised above with my own MacBook. A 2.5" external drive goes into my backpack more easily than a 3.5" and will make for backups on the road. I then have a 3.5" external drive at home for full backups and a bunch of other data I don't need all the time.