- I have just updated my phone to iOS 5 and said “yes” to iCloud.
- My main home machine is still on Snow Leopard.
- My wife’s home machine is also still on Snow Leopard, and can’t be upgraded until a critical piece of software she uses becomes Lion-compatible. Estimated time: six months.
- My work machine is also still on Snow Leopard and won’t be upgraded until the IT department approves Lion. Estimated time: right around when 10.8 is out. Alternatively, I could follow the lead of many of my co-workers and just give up and buy a personal Macbook Air for all work computing needs. But that would require Brass Reproductive Organs, which clearly I lack.
- Oh, my wife and I also use Mobile Me for syncing data and sharing calendars.
- Not to mention that my life completely revolves around OmniFocus, and I use Mobile Me for syncing there as well.
When there is a big decision to be done, to be done, a policeman’s lot is not a happy one (happy one).
*Alternatively, I could follow the lead of many of my co-workers and just give up and buy a personal Macbook Air for all work computing needs.*
Just do it. My job (some courseware programming, some audio and video editing, maintaining a couple of very basic websites) probably doesn’t resemble yours, but a couple of years ago I started doing as much work as possible on my own laptop and as little as possible on the organization’s computers. My performance improved and my headaches were reduced considerably. About six months ago I was finally issued a relatively decent-quality organization laptop (a Lenovo L512, with some organizational crap on it that I blew off) which is quite unusual where I work. In retrospect, I should have made the change sooner.
It’s really tempting.
As a side note, I did manage to solve one of the problems — OmniGroup is now running their own syncing server. They’re still working out the kinks, but it seems to be syncing okay so far.