A few weeks ago I purchased a Seagate 400 GB external hard drive. Excessive? Probably, but it was super-reasonably priced and I couldn’t resist. (Here’s the Macworld Store link, but the lowest price has already gone up by about $50. I highly recommend Newegg.com for compy-related purchases, though.)
Before the Seagate, my PowerBook had a total storage capacity of 80 GB, split almost equally between two partitions, “ebi” and “zig”. I already have one external hard drive, a 20-gigger, “bubs”, but I don’t use it often as it is loud and somewhat slow to respond.
I also have a 60 GB iPod, "felix". I got the larger HD in large part to back felix up. In addition to the back-up, I had heard rumors about how, if you first format an iPod on a PC, you can use it with both a Mac and PC, seamlessly. Here was my chance!! I had formatted felix on my PowerBook, but I use a PC at work, so the only way I can really listen to felix there is by plugging my computer speakers into the iPod directly, but who wants to do that?!
With fingers crossed, I took everything off of felix and put it on the new HD, “goomba”. Formatting felix on my work-Dell was a bit buggy—the iPod Updater's restore and update weren't as smooth as I had hoped—but after a restart, the compy recognized felix and started up iTunes. Weird thing is that, of the HD configuration options available on the PC, opening iTunes is not offered. "Take No Action" or "Manage Music with RealPlayer" are available options, however. ::shrugs:: I don’t get it, either. One little peeve I have is that, though I have configured felix on the PC in lower-case letters, gizmo (that’s the name of my PowerBook) refuses to recognize felix as anything other than “FELIX”. Grrr.
Bottom line is that over the past few days, I have been able to add music from both my work PC and my PowerBook, and use felix back and forth without any difficulties. I’m super excited about this. I’m a little worried that one day felix might crap-out what with this weird kind of OS-HD ménage à toi I’ve got going on, but thanks to goomba, I can sleep a little easier knowing everything’s got a copy.
Before the Seagate, my PowerBook had a total storage capacity of 80 GB, split almost equally between two partitions, “ebi” and “zig”. I already have one external hard drive, a 20-gigger, “bubs”, but I don’t use it often as it is loud and somewhat slow to respond.
I also have a 60 GB iPod, "felix". I got the larger HD in large part to back felix up. In addition to the back-up, I had heard rumors about how, if you first format an iPod on a PC, you can use it with both a Mac and PC, seamlessly. Here was my chance!! I had formatted felix on my PowerBook, but I use a PC at work, so the only way I can really listen to felix there is by plugging my computer speakers into the iPod directly, but who wants to do that?!
With fingers crossed, I took everything off of felix and put it on the new HD, “goomba”. Formatting felix on my work-Dell was a bit buggy—the iPod Updater's restore and update weren't as smooth as I had hoped—but after a restart, the compy recognized felix and started up iTunes. Weird thing is that, of the HD configuration options available on the PC, opening iTunes is not offered. "Take No Action" or "Manage Music with RealPlayer" are available options, however. ::shrugs:: I don’t get it, either. One little peeve I have is that, though I have configured felix on the PC in lower-case letters, gizmo (that’s the name of my PowerBook) refuses to recognize felix as anything other than “FELIX”. Grrr.
Bottom line is that over the past few days, I have been able to add music from both my work PC and my PowerBook, and use felix back and forth without any difficulties. I’m super excited about this. I’m a little worried that one day felix might crap-out what with this weird kind of OS-HD ménage à toi I’ve got going on, but thanks to goomba, I can sleep a little easier knowing everything’s got a copy.
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