The motherboard in my MacBook Pro (two years old) ascended into bit heaven yesterday. It’s off for warranty repair but, unfortunately, with my current schedule I hadn’t kept current on my Time Machine backup – it’s about 14 days behind. For safety’s sake Apple is making a backup of my Users folder (for a fee) should the drive be wiped at the repair facility. Meanwhile, I’m left to ponder a few things while I am sans computer.
- Stealing cycles on my wife’s MacBook.
- Pushing my iPhone as a primary, not secondary, platform.
- Leveraging data I have stored “in the cloud” such as Carbonite and Google Docs.
- Pulling data from older Time Machine backups and Carbon Copy Cloner clones.
I’m curious how the iPhone will work as a laptop replacement and if my clones would be useful running from a MacBook. Even more curious is if the pile of papers on my desk will diminish in size or the stack of books on my nightstand will shrink during my MBP’s refurb.
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