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Zenkitty,
I'm a Toshiba fan, so here are a couple ideas:
Do you recall that you gave me a demo of your new netbook at the Providence F2F? That showed me that I prefer a larger keyboard, so when I bought a travel laptop for my trip to Europe that August, I bought a 13" Toshiba. This is the current version of that model. Mine is still going strong, and I like it a lot.
Here is something similar.
dcp, yes! I've come to agree with you that it's too small. I need it for travel too; I'm planning on taking it to the UK this fall. Thanks for the recs! I like Toshiba too, that was on my short list already. How heavy are they?
Mine is 3.2 lbs. The ones I linked to above are a little larger, and weigh about 4.3 lbs.
I adore my 11" MacBook Air, but that only really works if you're a Mac person.
I also adore my 11" MacBook Air, and it is my first Mac.
Stop tempting me to the Dark Side!
I fear it wouldn't be compatible with all the stuff I have on the PC platform that I'd be moving over. And by "not compatible" I mean, I couldn't easily figure it out. I'm going for a shallow learning curve, here. Like, flat.
Okay--my NAS does not like Lion.
I'm trying to save a document in Elements, and I navigate to a folder full of symlinks to other folders on the NAS. Can't navigate past them. I doubleclick on "venus" and it replaces the filename with "venus", and doesn't resolve the symbolic link. Who am I supposed to be pissed at here--Apple, or Seagate? (Hell, or Adobe--I can navigate this way in Finder, after all)
Seagate's NAS is no longer compatible with Time Machine, which is why I ask. I am mad at them about that--my firmware is up to date, and everything. It's a kind of useless lump of spinning silicon at the moment.
I have a Seagate NAS that broke Time Machine, but they did release a firmware update that fired it.
Which model, ND? I have a Black Armor 220, and its firmware is up to date, but no joy.
And Dreamhost, thanks for *nothing*. One of the least important PHP pages on my site is broken (it's one I use, direct URL only), and last time something like this happened, they'd changed their PHP configuration (disabled allow_url_fopen) without saying anything--this one, I'm going back and forth trying to work out why suddenly it's spitting up tons of "[Thu Aug 02 09:09:12 2012] [error] [client 69.163.231.184] access to /cross_sites.php failed for 69.163.231.184, reason: Client exceeded concurrent connection limit of 30, referer: christian bale, all hands" errors on the 2nd of August, when it hadn't been on the 1st, and I hadn't updated code since June.
No changes, they assure me!
In the middle of this discussion, I notice "This is just a note to let you know that we have moved your account to a new server!"
Seriously, tech support? I know it's not your job to debug my code, but when I ask what sort of things might have changed, SERVERS totally count. So at least I have a direction to look in, anyway.
That's the model that I have. I'll double check but I'm pretty sure it's been working with Time Machine on a couple of laptops with no worries.