All it took for me to buy an additional external drive was losing a movie on which I'd spent no less than 40 hours. I still don't know what happened (probably user error), but I immediately purchased another hd so I've have an additional back-up in case it should happen again.
But the other options are tempting also. Luann b3 wrote: > My birthday is next week, and between my fiance and myself, I have > decided to splurge a bit and buy yet another computer related gadget. > That is where you guys (and gals) come in. > > I've decided to spend ~$120 and have narrowed my choices down to > about three things, and would like some input as to what you think > would be the best investment, long term. > > 1. a gig stick of ram for the new Powerbook. that would raise me from > my current 768mb to 1.2GHz (and freeing up a 512mb stick to put in my > fiances iBook, raising her from 512mb to 768). > > 2. an airport express. we have both been wanting this for a while, > but just never justified spending the money. it would be nice to play > our music in different rooms of the house, and with the iTunes update > that lets you stream to multiple AEs and use your computers speakers, > this became more attractive. (plus, it would be nice if we could > print wirelessly. I know that the Epson R200 has some issues printing > for some people, but it's worth a shot...) > > 3. another 160GB lacie firewire drive. I currently have a 160GB one > partitioned in half, with 80GB for backing up the Powerbooks HD, and > 80gb for storage. With my growing music/movie/pictures collection, > and those large iMovie and iDVD projects, it might be nice to have > the extra space, even if I don't need it now. (as of this writing, I > have ~22GB free on the laptop and ~18GB free on the "storage" volume. > > so, any suggestions? > or anything else you would rec. looking into? > > rick (loves buying senseless computer stuff.... hey, it's the only > wasteful thing I do...) > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
