Please go cloud!
You know I have a MacBook Pro 17″ unibody, that is my main computer, I could do nearly anything (except full HD video encoding/recoding or storing 2TB videos!), and take it with me. Tomorrow I will change the Kinsgton SSD V now 64GB, 1st generation SSD, that I installed to test and see how it feel. Tomorrow I will have a Crucial C300 256GB instead, that is 2X faster at least (and sometimes 10X faster!)… (I will sleep on the entrance just to be sure)
Hardware…
I also have a desktop hackintosh, Quad-core 4×3.4Ghz, with 4TB storage inside, that is really fast, but not as reactive as my MacBook Pro limited by it’s RAID-0 2×1TB 7200 rpm system disk! But still, it’s fast and could impress a Mac Pro user with it’s CPU and GTX 260 video card. I use it to store all my photos, music and videos. All media are in it. 4TB it’s huge compared to 64GB or 256 GB 
Naturally my cellphone is an iPhone 3G, that store a playlist of music, re-encoded in AAC 128KB. My Music is stored as VBR 320Kb MP3 on my desktop. 100GB of music. My iPhone come with me wherever I go, and is online anytime, even at night… Awaiting iPhone HD this summer!
And now I own a 64GB iPad, that is a pretty interesting gadget. Gadget because Apps are not yet available (at least in Canada), and more advanced Apps are to come, to use it as a computing platform, more than an iPhone+…
Oh! I Forgot my PowerBook G4 15″ HD, the lastest and greated PowerBook, late’2005 model, upgraded to 2GB RAM and 320GB hard-drive. An old computer by today’s metrics, but still a great laptop to live with, especially with iLife and iWork! I keep it just in case…
Cloud, synchronizing, …
I synchronize all these stuff using two great cloud software, DropBox (that I will drop anyway! lol!), and now MobileMe, which store and synchronize my emails (even if GMail is my main provider), Safari’s bookmarks, iCal, Address Book, and store my latest works on iDisk! I like Mobile Me, as my Mac and iGadgets: the more you have the more they interact and give you an incredible user experience!
Still I need to synchronize my iTunes library (100+ GB) online to be able to use them off-line, synchronize my LightRoom catalogs, photos (200GB!), and be able to use any platforms for any tasks (with their limitations), like hearing my full iTunes library on my iPhone while on the road or on my iPad, edit my photo catalog on iPad, on a french café, what a wonderful computer for that! Access any file, at least to display them, print from my iPad or iPhone an interesting webpage, an email or anything…
All that is not fulfilled today, you have to do some compromise between usability and features. I don’t want to compromise, even an iPhone is more powerful than a Windows 95 or 98 computer! I want it to offer me the abolity to print things, to access all my data, and with it’s limitations, to be able to work anywhere, anytime. iPad is the dream machine, since I bought it, I take it anywhere, it’s size of MacWorld magazine, and weight less than a Book! Powerful, efficient, sexy!
I want Lightroom, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office 2008, and all major application to go cloud, at least to enable us to synchronize our work, to work anywhere, to go from a computer-related experience to a media-related experience: I don’t care where my data is (even in USA where NSA analyse them! I love you guys, you are so genius but so predictible!), but I would like to use them, stream them, process them, display them, print them, anywhere, anytime. As long as I have a physical backup or two
This is the future, iPhone show the road, iPad is the highway, and for myself, I will try to do software that enable us to unlock from the desktop and even laptop Mac. We need to stay in control of our data, but we need them to be available now and then! Not in front of our desk.
What could I do?
That’s why I am developping 3 iPad applications, some synchronizing with Mac and PC counterparts, some using your Mac or PC to do your job, with an iPad or iPhone interface, anywhere you are! Future is now, and developers have to take risks because if you buy it (hey! basic versions will be free! promised!) world will change!
