Re: Here's your first Thunderbolt peripheral...

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"Guess Who" <nobodyknows@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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"Guess Who" <nobodyknows@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <j07gqb$3a9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Guess Who" <nobodyknows@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You go ahead and do it your way, I prefer my way. It's
cheaper,
and I
get
to use a more powerful system when I'm at a desk, and I
don't
have
to
worry
about losing all my work along with my laptop.


If you did backups you wouldn't have to worry about
that.

Window takes care of the backups and the synching.

Then your whole argument is a strawman.

Argument? Strawman? Are you still drunk?

Your argument that having a laptop alone is somehow more
dangerous
than
having it and a desktop and having them synched.

Let's hope you never lose your laptop and get my point the hard
way.

How would your situation be better than mine?

Costs less. Has a better desktop computer. More efficient.

Really? Let's see these costs...

Ever hear of the WWW?

Yup. And I notice you've carefully avoided saying what you've actually
got, so that no real look at whether you're telling the truth can be
had.

You can price out systems on your own.

But I can't price out the system you claim you have that does all this
better and cheaper without knowing what its components are...

Looks like you're stuck with paying lots more money to Apple to get much
less than I have. Sucks to be you.

Since you won't actually produce any figures to back that up...




And how is a "better desktop computer" relevant to the subject under
discussion here which was avoiding data loss in the event of
accident
or
theft?

It's not, but that wasn't the only thing under discussion.

It was the only thing being discussed right here.

Nope.

Yup.

Nope.




My laptop is backed up
every time it's at home.

You back up to a monitor? How does that work?

I back up to an external hard drive just by plugging it in. Time
Machine.

If I had a new MacBook and Apple's new Thunderbolt Display, I'd back
up
by plugging into the monitor which would be permanently hooked up
via
Firewire to the hard drive.

Why isn't the hard drive hooked up via Thunderbolt? You seem to be
adding
equipment without raising the price. Do you plan on stealing a
firewire
drive?

I'll use the one I've already got.


I'd rather sync than back up. Nothing to connect. All wireless.

Nothing wrong with that, but you're not syncing the entire drive with
Windows Sync Centre.

Why would I need to sync the entire drive? It's only my work files that
need to stay in sync.

Really? You're sure about that? If your machine gets stolen and you need
to get back up and running, all you'll need are your work files?

Do I really need to repeat myself? Data is all that needs to be synced.

Really? What about settings, your registry, applications you've
downloaded and will now need to download again. Wouldn't it better to
get all of that?



And backing up could be wireless, too. But if I were to be plugging my
laptop into a station already setup to give me a desktop configuration
when I'm at home, backing up with wires is faster.

You obviously don't understand what data syncing is for.

LOL

Bottoms up.

LOL

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