Well,
about a month ago I finally got round to buying myself a new computer.
Lenovo had a special offer on their AMD Ryzen systems where you got a 512GB SSD for the cost of the standard 256GB unit, and the one thing I'm hungry for is storage.
So I went for it.
Of course as it was a special build to order configuration I had to be patient and wait for it but it eventually arrived yesterday.
Out of the box it just worked. I can't say I took to the slightly shouty voice enabled activation assistant, but, but it all just worked.
And once it was configured, all I needed to do was add the tools I use, much as I last year with my old thinkpad.
Speed to set up, download and configure were impressive, and while the keyboard wouldn't be my first choice (I prefer older clacky ones), it's pretty nice to type on.
The only annoyance was that to install Dropbox, I had to unlink some of my older machines, as Dropbox now limits free accounts to three clients, but then there's also sendtodropbox.com for use with older machines, and I guess I could start using Box more ...
[update 31/03/2019]
which indeed I've done. I've added the box client to my new computer and to my ipad (on which I'd never got round to installing dropbox) - and we'll see how this goes ...
The use case is of course slightly different - when dropbox, box, and the rest first came on the scene there was little in the way of cloud based storage, and sharing files between machines essentially meant copying them between machines.
Dropbox like services' unique proposition was that the files were always in sync providing you had a working connection.
Things of course are different these days. Be it OneDrive, Google drive or Amazon's services there are lots of way to both share files between machines and ensure that they stored securely. For exampl, if I'm working in a library somewhere with my ipad, I can easily save the notes I've written by sending them to OneDrive from pages, or indeed saving them to icloud.
What Dropbox (and the rest) now have as their unique proposition is now 'save once, sync everywhere' without people having to go looking for the latest version.
Given the chaos I've seen with shared editing of funding proposals, that's a pretty powerful proposition for a group, but for an individual, especially as the first tier up costs the same as any other storage solution - say A$15 a month for a terabyte - perhaps less so.
As I said, we'll see how this goes ...
about a month ago I finally got round to buying myself a new computer.
Lenovo had a special offer on their AMD Ryzen systems where you got a 512GB SSD for the cost of the standard 256GB unit, and the one thing I'm hungry for is storage.
So I went for it.
Of course as it was a special build to order configuration I had to be patient and wait for it but it eventually arrived yesterday.
Out of the box it just worked. I can't say I took to the slightly shouty voice enabled activation assistant, but, but it all just worked.
And once it was configured, all I needed to do was add the tools I use, much as I last year with my old thinkpad.
Speed to set up, download and configure were impressive, and while the keyboard wouldn't be my first choice (I prefer older clacky ones), it's pretty nice to type on.
The only annoyance was that to install Dropbox, I had to unlink some of my older machines, as Dropbox now limits free accounts to three clients, but then there's also sendtodropbox.com for use with older machines, and I guess I could start using Box more ...
[update 31/03/2019]
which indeed I've done. I've added the box client to my new computer and to my ipad (on which I'd never got round to installing dropbox) - and we'll see how this goes ...
The use case is of course slightly different - when dropbox, box, and the rest first came on the scene there was little in the way of cloud based storage, and sharing files between machines essentially meant copying them between machines.
Dropbox like services' unique proposition was that the files were always in sync providing you had a working connection.
Things of course are different these days. Be it OneDrive, Google drive or Amazon's services there are lots of way to both share files between machines and ensure that they stored securely. For exampl, if I'm working in a library somewhere with my ipad, I can easily save the notes I've written by sending them to OneDrive from pages, or indeed saving them to icloud.
What Dropbox (and the rest) now have as their unique proposition is now 'save once, sync everywhere' without people having to go looking for the latest version.
Given the chaos I've seen with shared editing of funding proposals, that's a pretty powerful proposition for a group, but for an individual, especially as the first tier up costs the same as any other storage solution - say A$15 a month for a terabyte - perhaps less so.
As I said, we'll see how this goes ...
1 comment:
Have you seen rclone? Commandline tool that can sync to lots of services -probably won't solve the 3-authorised machine problem for Dropbox though. https://rclone.org/
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