though just to be annoying, maybe I will stock it with 4 500GB drives

your own house in France? well, I might just prefer that over a macbook, but it’s easier to play with the macbook than it would be to journey to visit la maison. It must be rough, having a house in France do you rent it out when you’re not there on holiday?

Haha, *only* 1 Tb? Looks good, 600 isn’t too bad for up to 2Tb

Unfortunately no iPillows for me, we’re staying in our own house

it’s not so much a mac/pc difference as it is a laptop/desktop difference, I think…. something about the small form factor.

this month or next month I’m getting an Infrant X6 network RAID with 4 drive bays… so up to 2TB of storage, though I’ll probably start out with just a 1 TB or so

so.. the drive space on the macbook is somewhat less important as it’s not the primary (or final) resting place of my stuff.

and good luck finding a hotel which provides the same level of service

Yeah, i’ll most likely back things up at the end of each day, as sitting at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower for almost an hour waiting for my iPod to run out of power is not something I plan to do!

Nice choice on the Macbook; it’s a pity memory costs so much for macs though, 2Gb on PC is around is around £100-120, but then again I suppose that’s around 200 USD.

You most certainly can’t have enough space; have you considered getting a 1 Terabyte hard disk? Or even a 1 petabyte? :O

I hope I get service as good as this in France, heh

for convenience, I’d probably download each day’s to the ipod — that’ll be relatively quick (I shoot a lot, and I shot about 300 a day) and then you won’t have to worry about doing a bunch at a time.

I got the middle macbook – 2.0Ghz/512Kb/60gb/superdrive… then upgraded the memory later (apple was $400 for 2GB, I got it for $300, though I saw a place online for $220); I’ve been at 30 GB free since early may… I keep my photos on an external hard drive (soon to be a network drive), where my music is as well… so those don’t eat up space.

I may get a 250gb or 300gb drive when they’re available… as one can never have too much space

France is cool; I’ve been maybe a dozen or so times (check my sets )

At the moment I haven’t seen a need for a second spare battery as the original seems to last for most shoots in my case (although i’ll bring the charger with me).

And yeah, I was thinking of the higher end 80Gb Superdrive version which is in fact £1000. However, you’re correct, one model is £750; which is the model i’d go for heh

As for France, unfortunately I can’t give you the exact location..well..because I don’t know :$ But it’s in the south, and we’re spending a couple of days in Paris as well. I’ll find out and tell you a little later and expect many, many photos

just for kicks you might try transferring the size of your card (or 1gb) with a fully charged camera battey & charged ipod… just to see what the result is.

and despite the amazingly long life of the nikon battery, i’ve found a spare has been helpful sometimes (I shoot quite a bit, however).

is it really £1000? I think I paid $1400/ £750, though with taxes it would probably be more…

anyway, I think you made the right choice, given the financial considerations

where in France are you going?

It does take a little while to transfer over, but do you reckon i’m going to get enough money for a Macbook in the next two weeks before my trip to france? £19 or £1000-odd, hmm tough choice!