The New Setup ⇥

Marco Arment, on the idea of buying a high-end desktop and a MacBook Air:

Since I never stopped buying laptops since getting the Mac Pro, I’ve been a multiple-computer user since 2008. Trust me, it sucks.

I’d love to get a new 11-inch MacBook Air with a 27-inch iMac, but the thought of keeping both in sync is unfathomable. Even with current tools like Dropbox, and soon-to-be current tools like iCloud, it’s still an enormous pain to keep my stupid huge media files in check. It just doesn’t work for me.

His choice (spoiler alert!) was a 15-inch MacBook Pro, maxed out with a big solid-state drive, relocating the standard hard drive to the optical drive bay. This would likely be my choice as well, with the obligatory enormo-display at the desk.