Gil, I would use a professionally hosted email service (lots to choose from these days) and store all your email and calendar data on a remote server. This way you avoid the entire hassle of choosing a multi-platform email client and you free yourself of all the problems/risks associated with Outlook PST files. If you're paranoid (a guess!), you can do weekly backups and/or redirect your incoming email to multiple email services so you have a backup if your primary service fails in some way.
Another advantage of this approach is that you can access your mail and calendar across any one of the growing family of workstations you seem to be accumulating<g>. Malcolm ----- Original message ----- From: "Gil Hale" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:29:15 -0500 Subject: Opinion Needed about "The Dark Side" Greetings all! I am seeking input from my associates re: a project that is actually for me this time. I picked up a Mac Mini the other month, and have yet to deploy it in my office, although that was the intent. It kind of made its way into the living room for testing with the new NetFlix capability of using both IE and FireFox, and now for both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X, for on demand movies over a high speed Internet connection. It has worked well for that purpose with the wide-screen TV/Monitor, but represents a huge waste of the investment into the Mac Mini, as well as not allowing me to deploy the Mac where I intended it to go anyway. The other week Lynda (wife) ordered an Asus 900 Netbook (Notebook) from BestBuy.com. Initially I snickered as usually these Netbooks are so pathetic in terms of delivering the kind of punch I felt I need. But when it arrived I set it up and am now a believer that weaker CPUs with the 1Gb of RAM this unit shipped with (I still pumped it up to 2Gb RAM, just cuz), with a 120Gb HDD, can actually be useful. I was so impressed with the unit, and the Sale Price of $249, that I ordered two more, but with the Atom CPU for hyperthreading capability as opposed to her Celeron M CPU. I also got 160Gb HDD and a 10" screen as opposed to her 9" screen. I must admit that I like her smaller unit more, just out of appreciation of its power in such a nice and small package. Also, the Atom CPU runs at 1.6Ghz as opposed to her Celeron M at 900Mhz. The Atom handles hyerthreading. But side by side I can not detect any practical difference in performance, although I am still running with the basic 1Gb RAM for now. Okay, on to the matter at hand now that you have some background... I figured the Asus 1000HD unit I got for myself (the other one is for a friend of ours) will never replace my current HP notebook I travel with (1024 x 768 for the HP notebook vs 1024 x 600 for the Asus netbook), but will come in handy for demo and projects I do not want to run on my regular notebook for "whatever" reason. When not in use I plan to use the Asus with NetFlix instead of the Mac Mini, so I can now deploy the Mac where initially intended - as my replacement primary eMail and communication PC instead of replacing my older AMD 1800 PC used for that purpose with yet another Windows PC. So, the question... My AMD 1800, 2Gb RAM, eMail/Communication PC is running M$ Office 2000 with Outlook being used for my eMail, Calendar and Contact Management management. I have both Mac Office 2004 and Mac Office 2007 available to use with the Mac Mini. I retain eMails, with attachments, form clients for very long periods of time. My Outlook.pst file is archived via Outlook every few months, but is still weighing in at a swollen 571Mg in size! And it is working well. For all the bad things I could say about M$, I must admit I have never had any problems with Outlook 2000, other than performance at rare times - but that is obviously self-inflicted given the size of the Outlook.pst file. My concern is that in the Mac (or Linux) I may never get that kind of application reliability with the amount of info I retain. I need to know if anyone has any opinion about any Mac OS X compatible Mac eMail, Calendar and Contact Management apps, to include the Mac Office offerings, that they have heard or found to be reliable and easy to deal with as Outlook. Many thanks in advance. Gil Gilbert M. Hale [email protected] 585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular) 585-202-4341 - Cellular/VoiceMail --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
