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Owen Densmore

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In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I
mentioned the MacBook air.

Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it
like?

Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really
all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I always
have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would increase the
times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

-- Owen

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Owen Densmore

Re: Air

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On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I
> mentioned the MacBook air.
>
> Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it
> like?
>
> Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not
> really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but
> I always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would
> increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.

Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

- Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable
computer? (That's me, for example).

- Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If
so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in
synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...)
and don't need synch?

Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers
and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.

-- Owen

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Russ Abbott

Re: Air

A laptop which serves as both a home computer (with a docking station) and a travel computer (for real travel). An office computer. These are kept in synch (manually) via web-accessible files. The web files are the true storage. Other than that, it's just an iPhone for email. Unless I'm traveling and have my laptop, I'm not away from both home and office for long enough periods to worry about it.

-- Russ A

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air.

Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like?

Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.

Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

- Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable computer? (That's me, for example).

- Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...) and don't need synch?

Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.

-- Owen

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glen e. p. ropella-2

Re: Air

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Thus spake Owen Densmore circa 10-02-01 11:07 AM:
> Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

For light work, I use the G1, which has e-mail, chat, ssh, camera, pdf
reader, etc. For medium work, I use a dell inspiron running ubuntu,
which has a "smaller"/"slave" version of everything on my desktop, which
runs debian squeeze. Sync between computers is easy with rsync (though
there exist some version mismatch for some applications). Sync between
the G1 and the computers is done by relying mostly on hosted services
like imap. Other user data is simply copied over the USB cable.
Desktop is always online (via a dynamic ip address tracked by
dyndns.org). Laptop is online whenever there's a wifi near (also
accessible via dyndns.org).

Windows sync between the desktop and the laptop is via virtualbox images.

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glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com

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Robert J. Cordingley

Re: Air

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

No sync required: I just have division of purpose. But then I only have
an XP laptop and a MacOSX laptop.
Thanks
Robert
PS never had an Air. R

On 2/1/10 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:

> On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
>
>> In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I
>> mentioned the MacBook air.
>>
>> Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it
>> like?
>>
>> Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really
>> all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I
>> always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would
>> increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.
>
> Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.
>
> Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?
>
> - Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable
> computer? (That's me, for example).
>
> - Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If
> so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in
> synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...)
> and don't need synch?
>
> Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers
> and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.
>
> -- Owen
>
>
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>
>

Douglas Roberts-2

Re: Air

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

Kubuntu 9.10 desktop + largish file server at the home office. Kubuntu 9.10 on the Dell Lattitude laptop for travel. I sync up my one work directory which includes all the Thunderbird active & archived mail. I'll be getting a 10.1" netbook that will be running UNR (Ubuntu Netbook Remix) before my next motorcycle trip. I'll probably get one with the Atom N450 processor since they get about 10 hours of battery life, and Gmail will be the sync.

Kubuntu 9.10-based home entertainment center that drives an 800 W Denom amp & gets most of its media off of my office file server.

--Doug

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air.

Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like?

Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.

Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

- Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable computer? (That's me, for example).

- Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...) and don't need synch?

Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.

-- Owen

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Scott R. Powell

Re: Air

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

FWIW I have an Air, a MacBook Pro laptop and an iPhone, I synch them wirelessly via MobileMe. I always have the iPhone with me and the Air perhaps 25% of the time. The MacBoo Pro is filling in, quite admirably, for a recently deceased G5 tower. When I travel on business, I take the Air and the separate disk drive.

I keep my iTunes and iPhoto libraries on the MacBook Pro, not the Air.

Scott Powell

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air.

Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like?

Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.

Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

- Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable computer? (That's me, for example).

- Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...) and don't need synch?

Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.

-- Owen

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Roger Critchlow-2

Re: Air

In reply to this post by Owen Densmore

A Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet is my principle computer, on the desktop or on the road, running Ubuntu primarily or Windows if required. A G1 serves as a WWAN modem and as a portable computer on many trips. A Chumby as a home alarm clock, though it may be reitired in favor of the phone.

The Thinkpad went out for depot service early last month, but it took longer to get the backup computer configured for action than it did for Lenovo to handle the service and shipping. I should have just read a few books.

-- rec --

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jan 30, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:

In thinking about my "device ecology" in the iPad discussion, I mentioned the MacBook air.

Just curious: How many of us have one or have used one? What was it like?

Behind this is the observation that most laptops today are not really all that mobile. I rarely have mine with me, for example but I always have my iPhone with me. I was wondering if the Air would increase the times that I *do* have my lappy with me.

Wow, I would have thought a couple of us would have an Air.

Second question: how do you manage your computer mobility?

- Lug around a laptop that serves both as home "desktop" and portable computer? (That's me, for example).

- Have two or more computers, one that is your mobile computer? .. If so, is it really light weight enough for you? How do you keep it in synch? Or do just use it for simple mobile use (mail, web, gdocs...) and don't need synch?

Thanks! I'm groping around for how to go back to multiple computers and remember it being difficult to keep in synch.

-- Owen

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