Quote Originally Posted by Medley View Post
Fwiw, you can upload raw to Icloud. What's more, if I upload them to Aperture (iTunes too), they become part of my photostream, and don't count against the storage. But if you do that, I don't think they're actually "stored" on the cloud- They're stored in the Aperture library on the laptop, and shared.

But, I pay $100/year for an extra 50gb of storage (55gb total), so I COULD upload a card to the cloud. Normally though, I do it on an image by image basis.
I wonder how long it would take to upload a 32GB card to Internet from a hotel somewhere out in the sticks via a DSL line that is shared with other hotel guests. Usually the line speed for DSL upload to a host is much slower than download to your PC.

Cloud computing is coming. It's a good solution for (non-confidential) documents that you need to access from multiple devices but I think it will be several years before it's workable when you're producing large volumes of data each day. Thanks for the suggestion anyway.