Oh yeah..... For me with all of my stuff I could do lots

for me it's either an Apple Laptop, or a powerful android tablet when it comes to mobile devices.

Is is the cloud network and connectivity of Apple devices you're talking about?

Yeah which is super nice

I have everything I own networked up with windows xD My tv, Ps3 and mobile all are connected and have access to all my files on my PC. I don't have any cloud storage or anything though, which i think i need to look into.

Ahhh yeah cloud is nice because if something happens its a digital copy of it so yeah

My computer saves everything twice, onto two separate hard drive inside it, and I also have an external hard drive that backs up weekly. I think i have a decent defence against hardware failure, just not natural disaster/fire..

That's why the cloud is nice because if something natural disaster like hits it's saved on a server so even if your harddrive don't make it you still have stuff

I keep my external hard rive in a another room? xD So it's safe from very localised disasters >_>

Lol.... But what about a flood?

Second floor flat. If we have a flood able to get in here I'd be more worried about other things.

Lol yeah what about fire?

i'm always nearby, so I would hopefully be able to get hold of my External drive. That's not a certain though. Fire is my biggest issue.

And for me I don't have to worry bout that

Well, how much can you actually store on the cloud. Surly there's a limit, and it can't be all that high. I have well over a TB of data i'd like to preserve.

I think that for basic it is about 8 gb, but don't quote me on that.

I think that right but you can upgrade to larger amounts

a 8GB free cloud storage is pretty good I suppose. I'd just have trouble deciding what I want to preserve with it.

You could always upgrade to more space as with any online backup service.....at least I think you can.

I think so too i just haven't looked into it hat much because all of my music is backed up lots of places and then so i just have my word documents on it

I'm actually not using it at the moment. I have an external hard drive that I use instead.

I use both.... After my hard drive just crashed and like totally fried to pieces and i lost like everything..... *cries* because i had been saving up for an external hard drive..... which sucked timing wise..... i got it when i was doing a quick update my computer died.... yeah.... and they couldn't get anything off of it..... *cries* and now i'm being over cautious

That's how I am normally with files. I have been slacking off a bit, but I need to get back in the swing of backing everything up.

Right now I think I'll stick to having no cloud storage. I have enough protection against most disasters, and if there's a fire i'll be worrying about bigger things xD

Ok! I hope that you don't have to worry about a fire ever

You start out with 5GB of free storage. You can upgrade it with an additional 10GB, 20GB, or 50 GB for totals of 15GB, 25GB, 55GB respectively.

What sort of price are we looking at for these upgrades?

20$ per year for extra 10GB, 40$ per year for extra 20GB, 100$ per year for extra 50GB

Wow that kinda sucks..... I didn't look into that....

Wow, that's pretty expensive. for $100i could easily get a 1TB hard drive and simply keep it somewhere else. While Cloud storage does have other advantages, i don't think they justify the cost. At least not in my situation.

Yeah I guess i don't know. Things with them are crazy

It is a matter of preference, if you would rather have to deal with the actual hard drive or not. Also, there are other companies that offer similar services, but I'm not sure of the prices.

I simply don't have the requirements that cloud storage fills. All I want to do is protect my data, i don't care about being able to access my data from other places and devices, which is one of the big plus sides to cloud storage.

It is, but it also allows for a fairly good chance of your data not being lost or destroyed.

I think having an external hard drive stored in another location adds just about the same chance. The chance of both of the locations you keep data being hit by disaster, causing you to lose it, simultaneously is pretty slim. Just as likely that your cloud provider could go down, or out of business.

True, but why I like Apple is just that they are such a large company and are doing well.

Meh, I have my own external, but I need to get a bigger one since mine is kinda small and I need to do massive backups.

I used to hate Macs....since I had NO exposure to them and was suddenly forced to use them. I was confused for so long .-.

Now? I don't own one still, but I do like the photo booth thing in them >> << I'm usually not big on taking photos, but I like that thing.

One thing that I love is how much you can do with just what's already on the mac. LIke making slideshows through iMovie and idvd it amazing!

Macs certainly beat PCs in the pre-installed software. Pcs have crap software, and then a bunch of 'trial' softwares that are useless after a few days, and bug you to buy them -_-

Of course, building your own PC gets rid of that issue.

Yeah. But i just loves my mac *luffles my mac*

So... I used a mac again today... and it made me pain when i thought of it as a little dinosaur... it was a sad day...