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My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where?
Thanks.
Ellen
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If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where?
Thanks.
Ellen
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Thanks, Ben,
Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery which has been most all this year because I have become rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. I could use more storage as this current one I am using is getting rather full. So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. how is that different from a MacPro?
Ellen
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where?
Thanks.
Ellen
Sent from my iphone max pro 15
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Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them.
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
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Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want.
shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
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On 5 Dec 2024, at 6:47, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them. On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
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That’s a great idea if you use the computer on a desk, but many of us use them as actual “laptops”!
Then, of course, if the former applies, get a Mac mini instead of paying for a screen you don’t use.
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On 5 Dec 2024, at 05:08, ncoom gilbar via < ncoom@...> wrote:
Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want.
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The last straw for me was when Zoom stopped working on my late 2009 Mac 24 inch desktop. I went to Apple and bought a Refurbished Mac mini Apple M2 Chip with 8?Core CPU and 10?Core GPU and paired it with a cheap $100 ?24 inch gaming monitor. I put the mini in a hub/stand and put a terabyte storage chip in its base to supplement the 500 gig mini storage. Runs fast with great graphics for less than a grand.
Mike
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I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them.
While you are at the Apple Store online, find the search box and input REFURBISHED.
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If there is a Mac computer there that fits your requirements, you can save 15%.
I have bought tons of refurbished gear from the Apple Store, not from other sellers of used or refurbished Apple devices and never had a single problem.
Bob
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If you always do what you always did,
You’ll always get what you always got.
On Dec 4, 2024, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
You’d be surprised. I keep a lot of pictures and videos on my hard drive. I don’t like using the photos app. Right now on my hard drive I am using “?417,059,270,656 bytes (417.06 GB on disk)” ?and that is almost getting to the overall ?capacity of?499.96 GB. So it? is getting pretty close. I do know that 500gb is not enough space. Maybe 1TB will do it but 2 might be better. I do back up this hard drive on two external drive now and then. Originally I planned ? to ?save a lot on an external drive and then remove stuff on my Mac, but in all reality I often don’t get to it. Then I'd have to remember when I cannot find something I want to go to my external drive and hope I can find it there. It is just extra work I don’t want to do.?
If I have a bigger harddrive I don’t have to worry as much about running out of space. ?I only bought this ?500GB laptop ?because I had bought a second external drive which I though I’d use and keep my hard drive less full. That external drive did not prove to be very reliable so I returned it. This was years ago. ?I will probably buy a new Mac one of these days which I need to do before something happens to this one. ?I used an older laptop when I got this one to store a lot of extras and I kept it going. One day it just died on me. ?I usually back up a couple extra external hard drives now but I am just not good at doing it regularly. Sometimes the external drives don’t work.
Ellen
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yes I have a 14” MBP and yes I could use a 16” screen. ?The performance is good but the space is running out, so I want a bigger hard drive. I do save a lot of stuff on my harddrive. I get busy and trying to organize it all elsewhere takes too much time.
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On Dec 4, 2024, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
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Again, I think your 7-year-old is a 15”?MacBook Pro (not 14”) and I think the sweet spot for performance and storage for you might be a 15”?MacBook Air (not 16”?MacBook Pro). When available, the refurbished 15” Air with 2TB starts at $1800 while the refurbished 16” Pro with 2TB starts at $2600.
Or, if you could get away with 1TB, you could get the Air for about $1400 or the Pro for about $2200. No matter what, make sure to get at least 16GB memory. (I don’t think you’d need more than that but now best to have more than 8GB.)
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 20:20, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
yes I have a 14” MBP and yes I could use a 16” screen. ?The performance is good but the space is running out, so I want a bigger hard drive. I do save a lot of stuff on my harddrive. I get busy and trying to organize it all elsewhere takes too much time.
Ellen On Dec 4, 2024, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
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If it‘s a matter of drive space, the most economical would be to swap out the drive for something a lot larger. If you‘re in an area where you have access to good tech support, this should not be a difficult task.?
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Am 12/13/24 um 22:20 schrieb Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...>:
? yes I have a 14” MBP and yes I could use a 16” screen. ?The performance is good but the space is running out, so I want a bigger hard drive. I do save a lot of stuff on my harddrive. I get busy and trying to organize it all elsewhere takes too much time.
Ellen On Dec 4, 2024, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
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Swapping drives is not possible on Apple Silicon Macs.
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On Dec 13, 2024, at 20:29, LouiseS via groups.io <lstoehr@...> wrote:
If it‘s a matter of drive space, the most economical would be to swap out the drive for something a lot larger. If you‘re in an area where you have access to good tech support, this should not be a difficult task.?
Louise Von meinem iPad gesendet Am 12/13/24 um 22:20 schrieb Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...>:
? yes I have a 14” MBP and yes I could use a 16” screen. ?The performance is good but the space is running out, so I want a bigger hard drive. I do save a lot of stuff on my harddrive. I get busy and trying to organize it all elsewhere takes too much time.
Ellen On Dec 4, 2024, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
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That is a though if I actually sit at my desk. I often sit on my bed so no room for an eternal screen unless I change my viewing habits!
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On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:08 AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want.
shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 5 Dec 2024, at 6:47, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them. On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
Sent from my iphone max pro 15
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Small screen on the bed, plug in to the large screen (why only 16”? Get much bigger!) on the desk. Best of both worlds.
shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
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On 14 Dec 2024, at 7:07, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
That is a though if I actually sit at my desk. I often sit on my bed so no room for an eternal screen unless I change my viewing habits! On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:08 AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want. shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 5 Dec 2024, at 6:47, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them. On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
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Are you saying that I could plug in a computer maybe HDMI into the large TV at the end of my bed? I actually haven’t thought of that. I know you can airdrop things from Computer to TV but that’s not the same as storage.
I was at Costco last week and surprised to see a larger amount of Apple computers on display. I did find I think the newest one 16 inch MacBook Pro. Not quite sure it has the amount of storage that I want and I’ll check it out again some other time. If find out, it has enough memory, then I may consider buying it. Ellen?
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On Dec 15, 2024, at 3:38?AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
? Small screen on the bed, plug in to the large screen (why only 16”? Get much bigger!) on the desk. Best of both worlds.
shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 14 Dec 2024, at 7:07, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
That is a though if I actually sit at my desk. I often sit on my bed so no room for an eternal screen unless I change my viewing habits! On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:08 AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want. shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 5 Dec 2024, at 6:47, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them. On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
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Sure you can, but the image quality might not be as good as you’d like. TV resolution is generally poorer per inch compared to computer displays.
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On Jan 1, 2025, at 19:25, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
? Are you saying that I could plug in a computer maybe HDMI into the large TV at the end of my bed? I actually haven’t thought of that. I know you can airdrop things from Computer to TV but that’s not the same as storage.
I was at Costco last week and surprised to see a larger amount of Apple computers on display. I did find I think the newest one 16 inch MacBook Pro. Not quite sure it has the amount of storage that I want and I’ll check it out again some other time. If find out, it has enough memory, then I may consider buying it. Ellen?
Sent from my iphone max pro 15 On Dec 15, 2024, at 3:38?AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
? Small screen on the bed, plug in to the large screen (why only 16”? Get much bigger!) on the desk. Best of both worlds.
shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 14 Dec 2024, at 7:07, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
That is a though if I actually sit at my desk. I often sit on my bed so no room for an eternal screen unless I change my viewing habits! On Dec 5, 2024, at 12:08 AM, ncoom gilbar via groups.io <ncoom@...> wrote:
Suggestion: get the smaller screen, but set it up at home with a LARGE external screen. Get as big as you want. shalom, ncoom
???? ??????? small-odds-man We’re all here because we’re not all there
On 5 Dec 2024, at 6:47, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Your 7 year old Mac might be a 15”?MacBook Pro. The largest available now is the 16”?MacBook Pro, but I doubt you need its performance capabilities. a 15”?MacBook Air would probably suit you well.
It’s possible to get as much as 2TB capacity in a?MacBook Air. What would you do with all that space?
Here’s the??I mentioned.
I encourage you to??at Apple to learn more about the differences and visit an Apple Store to put your hands on them. On Dec 4, 2024, at 14:06, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
Thanks, Ben,Thanks for your imput. I want the largest screen I can get on a laptop (unfortunately they don’t have the larger one they had years ago.) I think my current screen is 15”. ?My current one is doing okay so not a huge rush yet. but don’t want to take any changes tht it will die from old age. I had an older one I did use for storate, but it was on my bookshelf plugged in and one day it just died. ?I wonder if the hard drive can be recovered although I don’t have the energy right now to find out. I haven’t been going out hardly since my cataract surgery ?which has been most all this year because I ?have become ?rather complacent, but one of these days I’ll have to venture out more. ?I could use more storage ?as this current one I am using is getting rather full. ?So yea at least 1TB would be helpful. Do they come larger than 1TB? I do try to back it up to external hard drives I have and ?I have pretty much always had MacBookPros. Don’t know much about the MacBook Air. ?how is that different from a MacPro??EllenOn Dec 4, 2024, at 1:44 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
If you need a new Mac now, get it now. No need to wait.
Are you interested in another laptop? From what I’ve read about your tech engagement via iomug, I’m guessing a MacBook Air will suit your needs. Do you know whether you want 13” or 15” screen?
For storage, I gather you’d want 1TB of capacity.
Best Buy has had some excellent deals, especially on new 15” MacBook Air with M2 and 1TB storage. Otherwise, look for refurbished M2 or M3 models at Apple.
That’s my take. Let me know if you have any further discernment on what you need.
Thanks!
- Ben
On Dec 4, 2024, at 10:34, Ellen Lerner via groups.io <iomug@...> wrote:
My Apple laptop computer is now maybe
7 yrs old. I’m thinking about getting a new one with more gigabytes than 500 which is what my current one has and is pretty full. The question I have is should I wait for a new model or is this a good time to now ?purchase a new computer? Should I get it from Apple? Should I get it from Best Buy? Or where??
Thanks.
Ellen?
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On Jan 1, 2025, at 9:38 PM, Ben Rosenthal via groups.io <ben@...> wrote:
Sure you can, but the image quality might not be as good as you’d like. TV resolution is generally poorer per inch compared to computer displays. If the television at the foot of her bed is 4K, and it has an HDMI input, and she uses an HDMI 2.x cable, it will look awesome. __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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Depends. Screen sharing to our 1080p Sony across the room looks surprisingly good, and a 4k TV would be better still.
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On 2 Jan 2025, at 05:38, Ben Rosenthal via < ben@...> wrote:
Sure you can, but the image quality might not be as good as you’d like. TV resolution is generally poorer per inch compared to computer displays.
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I can easily share the screen and recordings ?from my iPhone and iPad but strangely enough I can’t play any of the DVR recording with Dish Anywhere on my MacBook Pro.
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On Jan 2, 2025, at 6:46?AM, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
Depends. Screen sharing to our 1080p Sony across the room looks surprisingly good, and a 4k TV would be better still.
Otto On 2 Jan 2025, at 05:38, Ben Rosenthal via < ben@...> wrote:
Sure you can, but the image quality might not be as good as you’d like. TV resolution is generally poorer per inch compared to computer displays.
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