As of right now, my desk top is connected to my laptop. This may be hard to believe, but for the past nine months I have been working on my laptop and transferring files from laptop to desktop with a thumb drive. For reference I refer to my laptop as 'Small Brain' and my desktop as 'Big Brain' and I had tried in the past to link small brain with big brain using a 'work-group' in windows 7 but for reasons I never resolved, the connection never worked. Then I bought a new wireless router. After setting up the router I was able to connect big to small brain and now I can even save files from one system to the other like using an external hard drive.
This is big for me. Small brain is my main interface, a lenovo think-pad T420, and is not able to handle things like After Effects, heavy Photoshop files, and Maya is simply out of the question. When I'm developing things with Sublime and testing them in Chrome the ram use does not allow for smooth screen capture with Camtasia.
With most of my web development being done on small brain I need to backup to the toshiba terabyte external drive connected to big brain and now I can do that without cables and thumb drive transfers. This is making things smoother in my workflow so that I have less to worry about and that's always good. It's funny sometimes how small things can make such a big difference.
Cheers.
Jon
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