I use Carbon Copy Cloner. I'm sure SD is great but I've used CC for years and twice now when I have had very specific issues the developer himself has worked with me, for a considerable amount of his unpaid time, to resolve them. The first such time actually led to a pretty major new feature...
Cool to hear you have settled on a plan. One thing to add that it looks like you didn't catch: the optical drive in the MBP is DVD only. It's literally 12 year old technology. If you wanted BluRay capability on that device you have to go external or a very expensive 3rd party shipment...
What's even more fun is to go past those stores on a Friday night. You will be in the middle of a crowd of hundreds at the apple store and walk down to the MS store and find 3 people in a huge hangar. That was my experience at Tysons anyway, the one in Christiana isn't open yet obviously. I...
I love the look of that black carbon fibre fascia. Neat! Didn't know the 2TB Passports were out, they will plummet in price fast and the 1.5TB ones should be under a hundy soon.
Cool Tony, like I said tho the best thing to do is go into the store and see the difference for yourselves. I can only tell you what my experience has been, I don't want to twist anyones arm into buying something they don't want or need but the fact is that having a laptop that is so thin and...
Why does she need a disk drive? For what? I've owned an air for 2 years now and never missed it. At home on a desktop sure an optical drive can come in handy but on a portable it is useless weight 99.999% of the time.
Does she REALLY need it while on the move? If not grab a cheap USB BluRay...