I just bought an iMac 20" today. I still have my powerbook 12 for my mobility. I see a future concern though. I know I will be using both macs. My question is: how do i keep these two macs always in sync? 1) safari bookmarks 2) emails 3) more importantly, word documents i create or am presently working on either mac. The iMac is in my bedroom. (Will be using it for occasional photoshop, audio & video work, and of course, some word documents every now and then) The PB is the one I will bring to my office and where probably all my office documents will be done, emails and internet browsing too, (and some photoshop & occasional video perhaps). I want the iMac to be the "master" computer, and the PB, its "slave", if you know what i mean. So, I want that whatever the PB does will be synced to the iMac. Any idea how to do this? Is there a software that does this smoothly?
use transmit. allow ftp connections on your imac and pb. than sycnhronize files from your desired folders on your pb into a similarly named folder on your imac on a regular (daily) basis or synch the other way when you do work on your imac. that's what i do for my mb and my imac, but this is a manual process. i just take care to do it consciously everyday. hth.
using my .mac account to sync most information i have between my macpro and my imac. the first two options you gave are easily synced via .mac. then for certain files i use idisk.
.mac will do the trick with a price, but i use it. since iMAC will be the master, and PB will be the slave, i encourage you to buy a portable HDD, 250GB with firewire is great.
