Dear Cupertino,
For families with more than one mac who want to keep pictures, movies, and music the same, or just be able to access it easily from all computers the Apple Home Server is made for them. Uses 802.11n or wired networking, uses bonjour to find all your computers in the house. Here are some pictures of the idea. (This guy was kind enough to send a picture!)
Tyler
(Editorial Note -- Time Machine or the Apple Extreme Base station with a Drive attached via USB, I believe, fills this need. You can have all your machines backed up and even use the drive for Network Attached Storage, it has 802.11n, and 4 Gig ethernet connections on the back.)
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Hey I made this!
You sure did. I wasn't sure if you wanted your name on there, so I've just been posting "Dear Cupertino Reader".
I have no problem changing it to your real name, I'll even link to your blog or site or whatever if you have one.
it's called a networked storage drive.....this is something the computer world has used for a little while now. Apple has even been so kind as to streamline the process for us all by introducing a radical new device that incorporates this networked storage drive into a networked wireless router.....it's called a time capsule. If you're concerned that the 1TB isn't enough storage simply plug any USB hard-drive into the port on the back for additional networked storage.
Have a nice day
I tend to agree here. I have a time capsule, I really like it. It works great.
Yes "anonymous" its true that would work, but they need some way to keep your pictures, movies, and music in sync between all the computers. Which really wouldn't be that hard, they would just need to allow the iApps to access content on the Time Capsule
And thanks joel, i don't have a blog or anything but you can use my name
Isn't this what MacMinis are pretty much for? I have two friends who have them connected to their networks and use them as servers/mediaboxes.
tyler...in itunes click itunes>preferences>advanced>general then click change. there you go now if you have a network storage drive all your music will be saved there.
in iphoto click iphoto>preferences>sharing and select share my entire library
in iMovie just save all your video on the external drive and tell your imovie library to look at the drive.
I'm not trying to be an ass but there are solutions in place for this already. not to mention the fact that if you really wanted to go the server route you can. OS X server costs $500 for a 5 user client and a grand for unlimited users. it installs on any current mac. most people will use the mac pro for the serving. If you do this then you'll have your home server
Hey anonymous i don't think you're being an ass, that is a good way to fix the problem i guess, its just not very "apple like" way to do things, but ya i guess that would work
I don't think some of the commenters are seeing the grand vision here. Yes, there are some not too horrible half baked solutions for what tyler is saying but nothing that is a "Home Server" and no, OS X Server doesn't fit the bill, yet. We need iPhoto Server, iMovie Server, iTunes Server. The Time Capsule option doesn't fit the bill because each user would have their own iPhoto Library. Same with the other iApps. My wife would kill, yeah, she is hardcore, kill for this to be able to centrally edit and post our iPhoto images to the web. MacMini is going to be your closest option but we both have laptops so it would be nice to have the content appear to be local and to take some of that content with us. Or when we return from a trip, have the iPhoto Library on the laptop copy media to the server's Library.
Greg what you are saying is exactly why i think they need a home server.
It will become more and more common that a family will have a central mac along with personal laptops, I know personally I have a laptop for school, my dad has his that he takes back and forth between work and my mom has a macbook (i dont really know why). But then we have an iMac in the living room to do things that the air/macbook can't do, like movie editing and photo editing. For me and my mom especially with only 80gb hard drive a home server would be amazing. I don''t need to take photos with me necessarily but It would be nice to have the ones i put on my laptop on a trip sync back over to a central server where all our computers can access it.
It wouldn't surprise me if Apple was already working on something like this. i remember a while ago seeing rumored pictures of the iHome which to me looked like a home server. Back then it may not have made sense but i think it does now.
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