The iCloud is Apple's transport interface between Desktop computers and handheld devices. In my long experience with iPhones and an iPad, I found I rarely needed to upload anything from the handheld devices to the Desktop but I did have need of sending things the other direction to the handhelds. There were other ways to do it but that was more or less automated so there has been a general truce ever since.
Not satisfied with that, Apple pushed iCloud into most aspects of the Desktop's processing such that the cloud may take over for permanent storage and the live machine only carries the live working set for whatever it's doing. That's all very well for stupids who cannot manage their own storage and who don't care about security but it's not acceptable to anyone else.
Safari, Apple's Web browser, is a speedy tool and a bit quirky but generally much more responsive than other browsers. However, much of that which is stored on your hard disk by Safari in caches, etc is now sent up to iCloud such that it can be used by any other computing devices you may have and thanks for fucking nothing on that, Apple.
Right now, my MacBook Pro which served so dutifully when I was on walkabout in Europe but which faded to anonymous insignificance next to the iMac, has been pressed back into service because Yevette's computer is a 2006 (I believe) Apple Desktop Pro. It's got the reliability of a political promise as it stays up for a few hours at which time the screen goes black and it crashes.
So there's the problem and the MacBook Pro aims to help. It's most of the way toward doing that and it's been upgraded to MacOS Sierra. The upgrade doesn't do much but it's the most current version of OS X which Yevette's computer will never see because the hardware is too back level to get there.
Note: she may choose to activate Siri and then I'll know I'm in hell.
Yevette: Siri, why is there air?
Siri: to blow up volleyballs.
Note: blatantly stolen from Bill Cosby.
The problem I do not want is to have any Safari data from my live iMac transmitted via iCloud to the MacBook Pro such that they become part of Yevette's session ... and that's why I hate iCloud. The Preferences have been updated for Safari, specifically in System Preferences for iCloud, and there should be no data transfer in that context ... but I still don't trust the damn thing so bringing it up for the last step is on hold as yet.
Her computer crashed not so long ago so it won't be on hold for long.
Ed: what good is a MacBook Pro after using a Desktop Pro?
The MacBook Pro has got about seven or so years of evolution on the Desktop Pro so the performance side won't be so awful. Most of the work requests to it will be for Internet services which don't require significant compute power generally and the link to the net is about 60MB so she will have that speed.
The screen for a laptop won't paint as quickly but the biggest bitch is likely because all laptops have low-profile snakebite keyboards. Currently Yevette uses an old flat-screen and that's highly wrecked-up as well but the display is good. With an inexpensive adapter it should be possible to connect that to the laptop and then she should be in relatively good shape.
(Ed: and all that is contingent on whether iCloud sends anything to Safari?)
Yep. Maybe I should activate Siri for a single task:
SIRI, KILL ICLOUD
Not satisfied with that, Apple pushed iCloud into most aspects of the Desktop's processing such that the cloud may take over for permanent storage and the live machine only carries the live working set for whatever it's doing. That's all very well for stupids who cannot manage their own storage and who don't care about security but it's not acceptable to anyone else.
Safari, Apple's Web browser, is a speedy tool and a bit quirky but generally much more responsive than other browsers. However, much of that which is stored on your hard disk by Safari in caches, etc is now sent up to iCloud such that it can be used by any other computing devices you may have and thanks for fucking nothing on that, Apple.
Right now, my MacBook Pro which served so dutifully when I was on walkabout in Europe but which faded to anonymous insignificance next to the iMac, has been pressed back into service because Yevette's computer is a 2006 (I believe) Apple Desktop Pro. It's got the reliability of a political promise as it stays up for a few hours at which time the screen goes black and it crashes.
So there's the problem and the MacBook Pro aims to help. It's most of the way toward doing that and it's been upgraded to MacOS Sierra. The upgrade doesn't do much but it's the most current version of OS X which Yevette's computer will never see because the hardware is too back level to get there.
Note: she may choose to activate Siri and then I'll know I'm in hell.
Yevette: Siri, why is there air?
Siri: to blow up volleyballs.
Note: blatantly stolen from Bill Cosby.
The problem I do not want is to have any Safari data from my live iMac transmitted via iCloud to the MacBook Pro such that they become part of Yevette's session ... and that's why I hate iCloud. The Preferences have been updated for Safari, specifically in System Preferences for iCloud, and there should be no data transfer in that context ... but I still don't trust the damn thing so bringing it up for the last step is on hold as yet.
Her computer crashed not so long ago so it won't be on hold for long.
Ed: what good is a MacBook Pro after using a Desktop Pro?
The MacBook Pro has got about seven or so years of evolution on the Desktop Pro so the performance side won't be so awful. Most of the work requests to it will be for Internet services which don't require significant compute power generally and the link to the net is about 60MB so she will have that speed.
The screen for a laptop won't paint as quickly but the biggest bitch is likely because all laptops have low-profile snakebite keyboards. Currently Yevette uses an old flat-screen and that's highly wrecked-up as well but the display is good. With an inexpensive adapter it should be possible to connect that to the laptop and then she should be in relatively good shape.
(Ed: and all that is contingent on whether iCloud sends anything to Safari?)
Yep. Maybe I should activate Siri for a single task:
SIRI, KILL ICLOUD
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