![]() At this time CrossOver was also first released for the Mac. Then in 2006 Apple did the what many thought impossible and switched again to the Intel X86 chip. invented while he was away from Apple doing his own thing. macOS X was largely based on the NeXT core that Steve Jobs and Co. It was also during this timeframe that the largest macOS release X came out. This chip was interesting because it was the first mainstream RISC based CPU. They chugged happily along on these until 1994 when Apple wanted to make the jump to the IBM PowerPC chip. Originally back in the 80's the Macintosh used a Motorola 68000 chip. What is new and fascinating about this new toy is that it is the 3rd time Apple has switched to a new CPU architecture. There’s another company I can’t even think of their name at the top of my head they seem to crash a lot, spider, sea gate! I purely use WD my oldest hard drive that’s still running running WD black is from 2011.Recently I was tasked with making some videos of running CrossOver on the new Apple M1 (Apple Silicon) MacBook. I have 16 TB of western digital blue and I haven’t had a blip in six years. Western Digitial has been rock solid HArd drives for me. Most people would be fine with a FireWire NAS of some kind. Best bet is to try three different ones and measure which works best for your needs. Apple is what $9 a month for 2tb? For me that’s a great deal because I never without Internet. ![]() I long had 2 TB of dropbox and 2 TB of local in an airport express. All of that is local but I’m adding databases so I can use another 20tb of oracle. 2 TB of photos, about 9 TB of climate and financial market data in an archive. So if what I’m hearing you say is that you have about 3 backups, how many TB of actual data do you have?Īs an example I have probably a terabyte and a half of music 3 TB to 4 TB of video. if you're one of the lucky ones where you never need to visit an apple store consider yourself lucky and consider your purchase insurance just like car insurance, house insurance, etc. it will pay for itself in 1 visit to the apple store. this leads me to the last bit of advice someone else might be wondering: yes, just get applecare. portable, if there is a problem you don't need to lug your desktop to the apple store (i've done that 3 times, to replace a drive, to replace the logic board, and again to replace a logic board). it just seems that everyone is going toward laptops these days. this probably leads to the next question about why am i not going to a desktop computer. i figure 256 GB of SSD is sufficient for most stuff, but when it's time to store stuff, basically plug in 2 external drives for storage: first the real "storage" location, and the second drive for tima machine. ![]() i hope this makes more sense as to why i'm asking about storage. i've heard horror stories and for that reason swear by the 3-prong approach for backups: 1 at the source, 1 onsite in the event of hardware/software failure, and the third being offsite (backblaze). when it's time to do taxes, i don't want to trust that everything is online, for instance. i'll eventually just get a nice monitor and plug it in. so i'm debating between a macbook air or a macbook pro. an apple for the most part, just "works". basically because i value my time and don't want to deal with updates, malware, antivirus, etc. i'm an iphone user but otherwise am an apple guy for anything computer related. on top of this i'm a very large google user. going to cloud storage for 100% storage isn't really in my blood. most of what i do is either online or on my phone but i like backing up: photos, videos (christmas, etc. so for backup i use backblaze and i have a time machine 1TB drive. firefox works but i can't log into google gmail for one account (long story there). it works but is almost to the point where i'm outdated from the perspective that i can't do stuff online due to browsers not being supported. so here is why i'm asking: i'm on an almost 11 year old imac.
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