michaelkahl
Limp Gawd
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- Oct 28, 2004
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I've been using a Macbook Pro for a little over a year (my first ever) and tonight we purchased a brand new MBA 13" for my wife along with a 2TB Time Capsule. My desktop is pretty much collecting dust as a giant storage box (which is all migrating to a more power efficient solution) and occasional PC gaming rig.
My wife is using an iPhone 4 and will be getting an iPad from work. I have an iPad and just received an iPhone 4s from work. Throw in our Apple TV and I think we have a nice ecosystem going. Working in IT I enjoy coming home to something that works and requires very little intervention from me. I used to love building custom PC's, throwing custom firmware on my wireless router, and flashing ROM's to my Android phone. I'm so tired of working on crap at work that this has been a refreshing transition.
As for the Time Capsule, I was back and forth on whether I should get one. I setup a FreeNAS 8 box for a while but after the ZFS file system kicked me in the tender spot and laughed at me I decided to move on to a simpler solution.
I'll still have my PC's setup in a lab for home studies and experiments, but it will be interesting to see what a full blown Apple solution will offer or perhaps take from us. I really don't care as long as my wife is happy, because that means I can be happy The less time I spend fixing or modifying things the more time I have with my wife and kids.
I hope you guys don't mind the post, I'm just happy to finally be fully onboard the Apple bandwagon.
My wife is using an iPhone 4 and will be getting an iPad from work. I have an iPad and just received an iPhone 4s from work. Throw in our Apple TV and I think we have a nice ecosystem going. Working in IT I enjoy coming home to something that works and requires very little intervention from me. I used to love building custom PC's, throwing custom firmware on my wireless router, and flashing ROM's to my Android phone. I'm so tired of working on crap at work that this has been a refreshing transition.
As for the Time Capsule, I was back and forth on whether I should get one. I setup a FreeNAS 8 box for a while but after the ZFS file system kicked me in the tender spot and laughed at me I decided to move on to a simpler solution.
I'll still have my PC's setup in a lab for home studies and experiments, but it will be interesting to see what a full blown Apple solution will offer or perhaps take from us. I really don't care as long as my wife is happy, because that means I can be happy The less time I spend fixing or modifying things the more time I have with my wife and kids.
I hope you guys don't mind the post, I'm just happy to finally be fully onboard the Apple bandwagon.