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> Apple expect everyone who uses an MBP "for work" to actually be using it as the portable sidekick to a desk-bound workstation If that's the case, how are you

> Apple expect everyone who uses an MBP "for work" to actually be using it as the portable sidekick to a desk-bound workstation If that's the case, how are you supposed to do it? Specifically, how do you keep your two accounts, files, bookmarks etc in sync between the two, especially 'live' so you can just pick up your laptop and continue? I'd actually very much like to do this, so Apple's expectation or not it would be great to achieve.

derefr 9y ago
Well, looking at what Apple defaults for people these days, you've got your Desktop and Documents living in iCloud, which is (I assume) where Apple expects you to save pretty much all your "working state." Bookmark (and tab) sync happens through iCloud as well, if you're using Safari. Window state doesn't sync, but then, it wouldn't make much sense for it to, workflow+performance-wise. The cutter is not the ship; it doesn't have a 50-gun battery, nor room to take a 1000-person crew aboard it. You're expected to multitask on the desktop, and then single-task on the laptop (picture an executive VP with a fancy watch whose time is Very Valuable: if they're working at all while not at their desk, it's because there's one very important/urgent thing they need to do.) As such, it makes much more sense to save your GarageBand project, or your PSD file, to iCloud on your desktop, and then re-open just that one thing on your laptop, rather than attempting to squash your whole workflow around as if you'll keep interacting with it the same way at the destination. (Though, if you're desperate to have that particular experience, Back To My Mac exists.) (I do imagine an OS could pull off something like the Firefox UI experiment of "tab groups", with native app windows, by combining a ubiquitous cloud store with all apps being wired to save+restore window-state, and requiring that any apps installed in a "session group" get installed on all the computers in the group. You could then grab out individual pieces of your workflow and un-hibernate them onto any computer you liked, work for a while, then put them back away. But that'd require a radically different style of window management than we have today.)
- vintagedave 9y ago
  My main items are: * Chrome, with window state / open tabs * A VM * Various documents, downloaded files etc ie, really, syncing much of the profile's files and app state. iCloud seems suitable if you want everything going up to the cloud and back, which for two computers sitting next to each other most of the time seems overkill. I'd love an automatic local file sync and something similar to Continuity that worked Mac <-> Mac, not iDevice <-> Mac.

derefr 9y ago

Well, looking at what Apple defaults for people these days, you've got your Desktop and Documents living in iCloud, which is (I assume) where Apple expects you to save pretty much all your "working state." Bookmark (and tab) sync happens through iCloud as well, if you're using Safari. Window state doesn't sync, but then, it wouldn't make much sense for it to, workflow+performance-wise. The cutter is not the ship; it doesn't have a 50-gun battery, nor room to take a 1000-person crew aboard it. You're expected to multitask on the desktop, and then single-task on the laptop (picture an executive VP with a fancy watch whose time is Very Valuable: if they're working at all while not at their desk, it's because there's one very important/urgent thing they need to do.) As such, it makes much more sense to save your GarageBand project, or your PSD file, to iCloud on your desktop, and then re-open just that one thing on your laptop, rather than attempting to squash your whole workflow around as if you'll keep interacting with it the same way at the destination. (Though, if you're desperate to have that particular experience, Back To My Mac exists.) (I do imagine an OS could pull off something like the Firefox UI experiment of "tab groups", with native app windows, by combining a ubiquitous cloud store with all apps being wired to save+restore window-state, and requiring that any apps installed in a "session group" get installed on all the computers in the group. You could then grab out individual pieces of your workflow and un-hibernate them onto any computer you liked, work for a while, then put them back away. But that'd require a radically different style of window management than we have today.)

vintagedave 9y ago
My main items are: * Chrome, with window state / open tabs * A VM * Various documents, downloaded files etc ie, really, syncing much of the profile's files and app state. iCloud seems suitable if you want everything going up to the cloud and back, which for two computers sitting next to each other most of the time seems overkill. I'd love an automatic local file sync and something similar to Continuity that worked Mac <-> Mac, not iDevice <-> Mac.