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Interesting, thanks.
Imac to Macbook Air?
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Im still with my old iMac, hopefully in the next month or so I will replace it with a MacBook air.
I have a question about backups, with my iMac I use that time machine backup, which backups up every hour to an external hdd I have connected. With my MacBook I won't want a bulky drive connected.
Is time machine still a thing on newer versions on MacOS, if so what's the best drive to use for doing these backups, can I use a small pen drive for example?
I have a question about backups, with my iMac I use that time machine backup, which backups up every hour to an external hdd I have connected. With my MacBook I won't want a bulky drive connected.
Is time machine still a thing on newer versions on MacOS, if so what's the best drive to use for doing these backups, can I use a small pen drive for example?
Time machine is still a thing, and you can use a USB stick for it too (that's what I do). You can also do Time Machine backups over a network drive (e.g. a NAS), or even on other macs (so if you have two macs, they backup on each other). With some trickery you can also back them up on online cloud storage services.
Backup disks you can use with Time Machine – Apple Support (UK)
Which devices can work as a Time Machine backup destination?
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Time machine is still a thing, and you can use a USB stick for it too (that's what I do). You can also do Time Machine backups over a network drive (e.g. a NAS), or even on other macs (so if you have two macs, they backup on each other). With some trickery you can also back them up on online cloud storage services.
Backup disks you can use with Time Machine – Apple Support (UK)
Which devices can work as a Time Machine backup destination?support.apple.com
Say I got the 256gb MacBook air what size USB would be recommended, also will any USB drive do, or should I be looking at a certain speed/version.
Also I wonder if I even need to bother with time machine backups. I only use my iMac for emails, surfing the net, all basic stuff, don't really have many files stored on my iMac, and photos are all synced with iCloud. Makes me think if I should save some money and not bother?
Put it this way I have an iMac late 2013 with a 500gb drive, with 3 users on it, and in total we have used just 60gb of storage, most of that i guess is taken up by apps and any photos that have downloaded onto iMac.
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If you don't have anything there that you'd mind losing, there's no point with backups.
My backups are about 1.5GB each, and I do once per day. So a 128GB drive would be sufficient for ~3 months of backups. Time Machine automatically deletes old backups as the drive gets full. A fast USB drive one would make it smoother (e.g. DataTraveler Max), although any reliable drive would do.
Thanks, think I will not worry about it then, any important file I can just manually back up to usb.
My photos and anything else over iCloud would be safe still ?
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Just a thought, would I better going for the 13" MacBook pro (2022 model) over the air (2022 model) both look to be similar spec, the display is ever so slightly bigger on the air, has a liquid retina display, compared to retina display on the pro, not sure what difference that is.
Slightly longer battery life as well on the pro.
I plan to upgrade the ram to 16gb so both will come in at around £1500, I also think the pro has the a 10 core GPU as opposed to 8 core on the air, not wanting to customise that on the air.
The air looks nicer looking to me.
Slightly longer battery life as well on the pro.
I plan to upgrade the ram to 16gb so both will come in at around £1500, I also think the pro has the a 10 core GPU as opposed to 8 core on the air, not wanting to customise that on the air.
The air looks nicer looking to me.
Thanks, my only concern now going forward is how I get on with the smaller display vs my current iMac, Im sure I will get used to it though, and it will be nice having the portability with the air.
Any alternative to the logitech mx3 mentioned in here already for a mouse to go with my MacBook?
I have seen lots of reports of issues with this mouse used with MacOS, some may say they have had no issues, but I've seen a lot of big threads now to do with various problems.
Anything else recommended, budget £50-100
I have seen lots of reports of issues with this mouse used with MacOS, some may say they have had no issues, but I've seen a lot of big threads now to do with various problems.
Anything else recommended, budget £50-100
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If I got it, do I need the "for mac" version, that one comes without the usb receiver, I read the mac version has an improved bluetooth connection for mac. Not sure how true that is.
I haven't looked at it in full, but my 2 year old one works fine over bluetooth.
I'm getting the white Mac one in the new year when I get a new allowance from work for IT kit.
I will just get the black one as getting dark coloured mac. Some seem to suggest that the mac version has a better bluetooth connectivity for mac.
Anyone know how much the system/MacOS takes up of the the 256gb SSD, can't decide between the 256gb and 512gb.
I have 500gb SSD in my Imac and we have used a total of 60gb across 3 users since 2014, as only use it for light tasks. Its on MacOS Catalina.
I don't think I would need the 512gb storage but it depends how much the newer OS takes up?
I have 500gb SSD in my Imac and we have used a total of 60gb across 3 users since 2014, as only use it for light tasks. Its on MacOS Catalina.
I don't think I would need the 512gb storage but it depends how much the newer OS takes up?
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So a little more possibly then, for a long term device, I wonder if I should just go for 512gb for peace of mind.
Also upgrading the ram to 16gb, so in all it will work out at £1649, or £1449 with the 256gb.
Depends entirely on your workflow and what you use it for. Things like Photos can be offloaded when using the app, so if you have reasonably quick internet that's a good space saving measure. Also, external NVMe drives are quite affordable now, ie, a Sabrent one is £130 so if you can store data externally then there's less need for larger internal storage. But if you travel a lot and take lots of 4k video/photos and put them on your Mac with no internet then you might benefit from more storage.
I think I will go for 512gb, the MacBook will be for long term, hopefully like my current iMac, so I think having more storage is safer bet, even if I don't use much of it, you just never know, and didn't want to have to worry about getting external storage down the road. Thanks
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