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make sure I didn't forget anything
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I am going to go to th apple store and pickup
15" powerbook 1.5ghz no superdrive as I have a lacie nobody ems to want to buy on ebay :-(
512mb of RAM from newegg to bring it up to gig total
timbuk2 messenger bag, OR the crumpler very busy man, hven't decided on this yet, so still need a little help here, I want the best protection possible without going to aa briefcase. I also will order the keyboard protector (screensavrz) from radtech
anything else I need or should look into right away?
Thanks for all the help from everyone, it is much apprciated.
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Bluetooth keyboard and a Logitech wireless Trackman.
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I use two cases depending on where I'm taking my laptop. (one for quick trips to work, the other for longer trips.)
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I've got the timbuk2 bag.... love it. I can throw all of my stuff for class in it and my 12" PB... nice to carry, great weight distribution and its durable.
Yeah, it's worth the $99
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Yup worth every penny. I keep my 12" in a Sportfolio II and slide that in the Timbuk2 bag. I love having double the protection.
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NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
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You are going to want an inexpensive (and preferably FW instead of USB2) external hard drive to backup for photos and other irretrievable documents. You can always burn a CD and/or DVD for long-term archives, but the speed and convenience of a quality and identical (i.e. pre-organized and in a single location) copy of your machine makes it easy to do maintenance and/or software upgrades. I just clone my HD (using CCC) right before I do an OS or APP update; makes 'downgrading' a cinch if something horrible happens! Same method before I take my laptop on a trip -- if it gets lost at the airport or stolen, I can be up and running with an hour once I replace the hardware.
You can get either brick powered (really cheap, 80 GB FW drives are typically $99 or less), or bus-powered (more expensive, they use 2.5" drives), which are even easier to use. All of my bus-powered drives came from an upgrade on an internal drive -- put the older drive into a cheap 2.5" FW case, and I instantly have a backup drive.
And I also think the bluetooth mice are 'must haves' -- the flexibility of these cordless beasts is ideal for a laptop.
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thanks for the advice, my girlfriends mom was nice enough to buy m a 200gig seagate 7200 rpm hd for christmas with a macally FW 400 case.
Is the apple blutooth mouse one of the best ones or are there cheaper better alernaives? I was also looking for a keyboard and rad that the ice key is a nice one, any other keyboard recommendations as well?
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