Dropbox too. One TByte for $100/year, and really easy to use. And can be used on multiple computers, not a bad strategy.
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric - > > As a Mac person, she doesn't have *lots* of choices, for better and/or > worse: > > I can't imagine traveling without a screen/keyboard, depending on the > kindness of strangers to provide a display and a keyboard, so I'd say > MacBook Air or MacBook Pro is the *only* choice. > > With internal SSDs on the Pro's there probably isn't that much reason to > go with the Air unless portability is her highest concern. > > A 13" could be sufficient but they top out at i5 dual-core with Intel > Graphics. To get i7 Quad with nVidia Graphics she has to go to the high > end 15" which impacts portability. > > Software compatibility should not be an issue. OS compatibility might > be. If she is running older software to avoid the subscription model, that > my keep her from running too new of an OS Rev... but likely not, it > usually goes the other way (new software won't run on an old OS Rev). > > A safari-vest full of high density HDD or SSD (preferably thunderbolt) and > SD (or other) memory cards should take care of the rest. The > speed/latency of SSD over thunderbolt rivals SSD over PCIE and I believe > beats HDD over PCIE. Keeping a baseline bootable SSD with all her > software is probably a good measure and it is possible she can even boot > from that on another Mac of similar OS Rev, but much of her software may be > keyed to CPU or Mac, not Drive... so lots of license shenanigans might be > required to take advantage of that. > > My 4Pi colleagues from England/Spain travel the world just like she is > planning, doing similar (if not even more processor/data demanding) tasks. > Their main advantage over her is there are two of them, so each has a > machine as instant backup or overflow for the other... > > They also are prepared to order up a replacement machine "overnight" on > demand and tend to do so once every 1-2 years, implying a full refresh of > their hardware every 2-4 years. They also use up camera bodies (DSLR's > have a shutter-lifetime and doing 9-shot HDR 360's is a good way to run > through that!). > > She might very well, however go a long way with just an Air or smaller Pro > and 2 thunderbolt SSDs. I do that myself (but with less intense demands) > all the time (1 SSD, 4 HDDs). > > - Steve > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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