In article <uce-5586F8.12292618072008@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>, Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com> wrote:
> > ...actually sharing tips with fellow Mac users as to how to > > make traveling with a Mac and using a MacBook for its > > intended purpose both pleasurable and efficient. > > Possibly using Macs on the road doesn't as much sharing > of special tips.
Depends a lot on how a user intends to use that Mac while he is away from his home. For example, I keep entirely different files and app's on my different Macs.
While at home, it is trivial for me to access another Mac.
On the road, it is a major pain, need special app's, special network connections, etc.
...and I mean _really_ special hardware/software.
Such as, if I get a hard freeze on my home Mac, then I of course can not physically press the "power" button on that home Mac very well, can I.
If force-quit does not work, then home Mac sits there, frying its insides with hot temperatures.
No thank you.
I kludged up a special relay just for that possibility.
A remotely controlled relay.
Output wires from that relay short out the power button for 5 seconds, doing the same thing a person would do if that person wanted to physically press the power button for 5 seconds.
Minor (invisible) modification, totally undetectable if later I needed to send the Mac to Apple for warranty covered repairs.
> I switch back and forth between my G5 desktop and my MacBook > without any real concern beyond the occasional need to swap or > charge a battery. > > It's somewhat surreal to me that someone might consider it an > acceptable norm for substantial differences to exist.
Not surreal at all that someone might consider there to be substantial differences between a desktop Mac Pro versus a battery powered MacBook Pro.
I consider it to be an "acceptable norm" to acknowledge that there are _major_ differences existing between a desktop Mac Pro compared to a battery powered MacBook Pro.
1) Weight/portability/bulk
2) Speed of operation (multiple full sized drives vs single 2.5" drive)
