SansPoint

Merlin Mann of 43 Folders is asking his readers to suggest ways to sync their Macs. I’m anxious to see what wins as the best solution. I’ve tried .Mac and MySync (now SyncTogether) with mixed, often poor results. MySync utterly failed on me while trying to sync Yojimbo, and I suspect the only way to fix it is to reinstall my OS on the desktop, which I’m less than keen to do. .Mac is overpriced, klunky, slow, and just plain sucks. If it were free, I’d use it with gritted teeth, but as it stands now, .Mac is a waste of $100 a year.

Besides, neither of these synchronize preferences^[1], or work when there’s no internet connection. Merlin himself is pimping ChronoSync, and I’m willing to give that a try. It would certainly save me from having to futz with thumbdrives and other nonsense to keep things moving from Mac to Mac.

Of course, the more I think about it, the more I think I should just sell my mini and iBook, get a damn MacBook Pro^[2] with a huge-ass external drive. One computer, at home and on the go, and no worries about synchronization. We’ll see what happens.

1. This is less of an issue for me, as it’s not a great chore just to tweak stuff on my iBook to work as expected. If you have more than two Macs, though, I could see the point ↩
2. or, perhaps, a BlackBook ↩