Just purchased MacBook air...please help with storage options

My Air is not my primary computer so most of my pics and music are on an iMac and a rapidly filling 1 TB hard drive.

If your Air is your primary computer an external hard drive is pretty painless.

Just format it MAC Extended Journaled (it will likely come FAT 32 out of the box) and it will work better with the Mac.

You may want to look at your libraries and maybe just move one to the external if one is much larger (my photo library is very large compared to my iTunes). iPhoto and especially Aperture can handle this pretty easily. I think iTunes can be a little more problematic in this regard because of permissions with how many computers can access your iTunes account.

If you do a lot of video editing and move big files back and forth a Thunderbolt drive may help but they are pricey.

An external USB 3.0 1 TB external can be had very cheap lately ($70 or less) so it is easy to try out and maybe even get another for a backup solution.

Hope that helps.

External drives are pretty simple and easy to use, so I don't think you would have any trouble with it once shown how.

Cloud storage might be another option worth looking into as well. Good luck

get or make (no, just buy) a flush SD card. Even the fastest ones aren't expensive and they work fine for storage and everday use. i haven't tried video or audio editing.

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How does the surface compare to the air? I don't need either, but def. "want" one.

if you got the 13" then it has an SD card slot. you can get a pretty large SD card that will hold a ton of pictures and won't have to carry around a bulky external hard drive for your extra storage.

Depends on your preference of OS. I came from having Macs for years and so I haven't adjusted well. I don't like the trackpad at all on the keyboard case. I hate that there is only one USB port, should be two, but it is 3.0. Love the touchscreen, all laptops should be now after using this. It's a little to heavy for reading on it like a tablet tablet.

All in all it's a great product, I would prefer to go back to mac because I like the OS better overall, or I am more used to it.