My music files take about 20GB, the movie files I'm working on now run to about 20GB, and I rarely work with less when videos are concerned. The photos I've taken in the past month and still need to sort runs to 8GB. My website stuff which I work on all the time comes to 3GB, my work files that I need all the time comes to almost 3GB. Not sure how much space OSX and the programs I use daily need but I'm sure that is quite a bit. There is 80GB of useful stuff that I use. The easiest place to store the files that I use the most is on the hard drive.
Your 16GB hard drive is good for you, I need 100GB minimum, or else I have to faff about with external hard drives for almost every task.
Are you really editing videos when you are out and about? Are you really listening to your entire music collection when you are out and about? Your website is 3GB?! That's ginormous!
When I'm at home I do all my real work on the desktop, and when I go out, I only take what I need. I put the music I'm going to listen to and the few videos I'm going to watch on the iPhone. Whatever project I'm working on goes on the laptop hard drive. After I get home, I sync. I move everything I've done back to the desktop. Everything goes back and forth. It's called syncing.
Even if you don't have a desktop, you can follow the same model with external drives or a NAS. When you go out, take with you only what you need. Leave everything else at home. Taking everything with you everywhere is very risky. It's the same thing as not carrying lots of cash around with you. The less data you carry around, the less data is in a precarious position. It's not just the risk of losing the data and needing to go to a backup, it's the risk of other people getting the data. I'm not just talking about if someone steals your laptop either. I'm talking about when you connect your laptop to all sorts of public wireless networks and such, you're in an incredibly dangerous situation. People can trivially spy on all your network traffic. Sure, you can use a software firewall, ssl, ssh, encrypted hard drive, etc. to mitigate a lot of these risks. However, that's going to seriously impact performance and battery life unnecessarily.
Are you really editing videos when you are out and about? Are you really listening to your entire music collection when you are out and about? Your website is 3GB?! That's ginormous!
When I'm at home I do all my real work on the desktop, and when I go out, I only take what I need. I put the music I'm going to listen to and the few videos I'm going to watch on the iPhone. Whatever project I'm working on goes on the laptop hard drive. After I get home, I sync. I move everything I've done back to the desktop. Everything goes back and forth. It's called syncing.
Even if you don't have a desktop, you can follow the same model with external drives or a NAS. When you go out, take with you only what you need. Leave everything else at home. Taking everything with you everywhere is very risky. It's the same thing as not carrying lots of cash around with you. The less data you carry around, the less data is in a precarious position. It's not just the risk of losing the data and needing to go to a backup, it's the risk of other people getting the data. I'm not just talking about if someone steals your laptop either. I'm talking about when you connect your laptop to all sorts of public wireless networks and such, you're in an incredibly dangerous situation. People can trivially spy on all your network traffic. Sure, you can use a software firewall, ssl, ssh, encrypted hard drive, etc. to mitigate a lot of these risks. However, that's going to seriously impact performance and battery life unnecessarily.
Scott, I travel a lot. Today I left home and I may be home on the 27th, I may be home on the 5th of January. I take all my music with me as I really don't what I want to listen to in two weeks time. There is also maybe 4GB of podcast and spoken word audio there for the same reason. The website stuff is actually 4 websites. Yes I do work on video projects when I am out and about. This is a thread about what you need for traveling the world, not for commuting on the train every day. I have an hour an a half of video I want to cut down to three ten minute highlight segments. It is backed up on one of the hard drives I have in my bag, but it is just as easy to hold on my laptop hard drive.
Synching is good, but a bit of a pain when I'm on a different continent.
You keep saying that when I go out I should only take what I need with me. I am. I also take external hard drives, but the data on those external hard drives is backed up the hard drive in my laptop.
Also, I've shown that all the data I take with me is bulky but not valuable. If someone wants to sort through my music collection, I'm not overly bothered. Same with my website stuff, 99% of it is online anyway. But I can't access this stuff easily. When I'm on a cruise ship, internet access costs 70 cents per MINUTE. I need this stuff with me.
I guess I just don't see why someone would edit video on a cruise ship! I would stay in the sun and the pool.
Also, if there is cellular service where you travel, you would do well to get a phone that can tether to your laptop. Even the $60 a month that you pay to the phone company is less than 70 cents per minute.
Hah, greatest thing ever is to connect to hotel nodes during Model UN conferences in high school (hotel hotspots in general, really), open iTunes, and see what everyone else has in their libraries. Oftentimes you can listen to any unprotected music they have.
Goddamn, that program has some of the worst networking ever. You have to wonder about the logic of the person who programmed libraries to network share by default...but hey, I guess "it just works."
I guess I just don't see why someone would edit video on a cruise ship! I would stay in the sun and the pool.
Sure, because you'd be there on holiday, and it would be your one week a year in the sun. So far this year I've spent maybe ten weeks on various cruise ships. Typically I perform one evening for each five days on board, so I have a lot of time to kill. I do swim every day, and spend half an hour or so in the jacuzzi, but this only takes up so much of my day. I watch movies, read books, watch shows and eat too, but on top of that I need to actually accomplish things. That is why I edit movies, record podcasts, write novels (although I was at home for the entire NaNoWriMo), learn computer programming, write music, take photos... all of these things require a laptop, and many of them require storage.
Again, what is suitable for your life is not suitable for everyone. Then again, my life is not suitable for everyone...
Also, if there is cellular service where you travel, you would do well to get a phone that can tether to your laptop. Even the $60 a month that you pay to the phone company is less than 70 cents per minute.
When I'm on a cruise ship, often the only cellular service is through the ship's system too, so it is equally slow and expensive. But then again, as I mentioned, I could take the large files with me on some kind of hard drive so I don't need to access the internet to download them.
Wait, I just remembered you turned down a free trip to Puerto Rico. You are so full of shit.
Yeah, a trip in which I would not be able to do as I please, but one in which I would have to do office space bullshit. If it was just a free trip, here's some tickets and go, I would not have turned it down.
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When I'm at home I do all my real work on the desktop, and when I go out, I only take what I need. I put the music I'm going to listen to and the few videos I'm going to watch on the iPhone. Whatever project I'm working on goes on the laptop hard drive. After I get home, I sync. I move everything I've done back to the desktop. Everything goes back and forth. It's called syncing.
Even if you don't have a desktop, you can follow the same model with external drives or a NAS. When you go out, take with you only what you need. Leave everything else at home. Taking everything with you everywhere is very risky. It's the same thing as not carrying lots of cash around with you. The less data you carry around, the less data is in a precarious position. It's not just the risk of losing the data and needing to go to a backup, it's the risk of other people getting the data. I'm not just talking about if someone steals your laptop either. I'm talking about when you connect your laptop to all sorts of public wireless networks and such, you're in an incredibly dangerous situation. People can trivially spy on all your network traffic. Sure, you can use a software firewall, ssl, ssh, encrypted hard drive, etc. to mitigate a lot of these risks. However, that's going to seriously impact performance and battery life unnecessarily.
Synching is good, but a bit of a pain when I'm on a different continent.
You keep saying that when I go out I should only take what I need with me. I am. I also take external hard drives, but the data on those external hard drives is backed up the hard drive in my laptop.
Also, I've shown that all the data I take with me is bulky but not valuable. If someone wants to sort through my music collection, I'm not overly bothered. Same with my website stuff, 99% of it is online anyway. But I can't access this stuff easily. When I'm on a cruise ship, internet access costs 70 cents per MINUTE. I need this stuff with me.
Also, if there is cellular service where you travel, you would do well to get a phone that can tether to your laptop. Even the $60 a month that you pay to the phone company is less than 70 cents per minute.
Goddamn, that program has some of the worst networking ever. You have to wonder about the logic of the person who programmed libraries to network share by default...but hey, I guess "it just works."
Again, what is suitable for your life is not suitable for everyone. Then again, my life is not suitable for everyone... When I'm on a cruise ship, often the only cellular service is through the ship's system too, so it is equally slow and expensive. But then again, as I mentioned, I could take the large files with me on some kind of hard drive so I don't need to access the internet to download them.