Quote: Originally Posted by Stingrey True, but in reality driving back and forth every day to work I just hate going over the speed bumps and stop and go traffic. I much prefer…

True, but in reality driving back and forth every day to work I just hate going over the speed bumps and stop and go traffic. I much prefer to drive my every day driver. That and…

perhaps you can wait a few more days and check out ibook's new offerings... since there are rumors that there will be a 15 inch ibook...

a ferrari is most certainly better than a toyota. if you didn't want it, you could sell it and buy a toyota with a little left over. but who would sell a ferrari to buy a toyota?…

Well, most Toyota's get better gas mileage are more comfortable and can carry more people and gear. One ain't necessarily better than the other.

Quote: Originally Posted by kentuckyfried I've been feeling like going out to impulsively buy an Apple laptop since I went on vacation, at time when I really needed one and it w…

It all depends on screen res. I love my wife's 12" iBook. In most ways I prefer it to my 15" PB but I can't live with 1024x768. I'm very interested, to say the least, in the upcomi…

If you already own a desktop, consider getting a 12" iBook if you want portability. Still has oomph, better battery life and it's cheaper (wait till next week to see if there's an …

I've been feeling like going out to impulsively buy an Apple laptop since I went on vacation, at time when I really needed one and it wasn't available to me. That, and the fact th…

I just don't like the idea of taking something designed to be small and elegant and make it bigger by adding onto it. I'd much rather have an external HD separate and a UBS and Fir…

Unfortunately, the Mini is not designed to be stackable. It would have been so easy for Apple to have done this, but they didn't. So no matter what the pictures look like, you will…

I don't like them at all. That's all I have to say about them.

Has anyone had any experiences with the drive enclosure/FW USB hub mini form-factor add-ons? They certainly looked very good, and you get your 7200 RPM drive while increasing the n…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco OS installs and upgrades. I'm tired of having to copy my Home to another drive to do an install of the latest Mac OS. People have been putting…

Quote: Originally Posted by hudson1 The general consensus has been that an external FW400 7200 RPM drive won't create a faster Mac mini. where?

Quote: Originally Posted by turtle777 Why are upgrades easier with the Home folder being on an external disk ? What upgrades anyways ? -t OS installs and upgrades. I'm tir…

I have to ask how using another spindle isn't going to help with speed under certain situations ? Precaching will help but for long reads and writes, a second disk might help if…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco Don't do what? Move the User to another partition or don't get a FW drive to run the computer on? Duh, the former. I do the later myself.…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco Oh, I know I wasn't gonna gain speed. I wanted to move the Home folder to make upgrades easier. Sorry, I shouldn't have added that in this thr…

Oh, I know I wasn't gonna gain speed. I wanted to move the Home folder to make upgrades easier. Sorry, I shouldn't have added that in this thread.

Don't move the Home folder to another location. There's no speed gain, and OS X isn't the same as most other *NIXs in that regard.

Don't do what? Move the User to another partition or don't get a FW drive to run the computer on?

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco I figured it'd be easier to backup and do reinstalls with Home separate. In this case, I'd have OS X on one partition and Home on another, bot…

I figured it'd be easier to backup and do reinstalls with Home separate. In this case, I'd have OS X on one partition and Home on another, both on a separate FW HD with a faster sp…

Quote: Originally Posted by Jasoco I'm about to buy a FW HD for myself to do this same thing too. But I want to have the Home on a second partition. The thing I'm wondering abou…