macbook air

[cos]

I used to think the reason the Macbook Air was not the right computer for me was its lack of FireWire port. But I have an Air from work for work use, and right now I can't find the ethernet adaptor for it. The idea that I have a computer that makes it possible to lose its ethernet port somewhat horrifies me. Lack of FireWire now seems secondary.

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[catness.livejournal.com]

Do you use bootable backups anymore?

[pir.livejournal.com]

Not directly, tt will still boot USB disk backups but the only larger encrypted disk I could find requires software unlocking. I have a USB stick with a fully installed OS on it for debugging and a smaller one with install media on it, so worst case I can boot from the install media and restore from encrypted time machine backups.

Since the air doesn't have any spinning rust I'm less worried about outright disk failures, more about theft/loss.