My New MacBook

     This is my new computer: a MacBook Pro. If you read my post from earlier this week, you might remember that I planned to by a basic MacBook, feeling that a Pro was too expensive and unnecessary. And I honestly didn't plan to buy a Pro, until I got to Micro Center and realized that they were selling the Pro for the same price that the Apple store was selling the basic. A free $200 upgrade is always awesome.

     So I'm now running on a MacBook Pro, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz processor, 4 GB Memory, 250 GB Hard Drive. I also purchased an 640 GB External Hard Drive, which teams up with the Time Machine program to constantly back up all of the files on my computer (so pretty much every day is Data Backup Day). I was also able to purchase a warranty that covered accidental damage (not available from apple).

backing up and converting

I bought a new 8G flash drive today to backup my genealogy research with.  I have a 2G, but was getting close to filling it up.  I'm also working on converting my .jpg files to .tiff files.  It doesn't take long to do one image, but I have hundreds - maybe a thousand - images and document scans.  I have 1.96 GBs in my Genealogy folder and every time I convert another image to Tiff, I increase my file size.