iMAC - WOW!
Posted by: 555 on 12 December 2008
Received my new iMAC this afternoon, along with a new computer desk.
The desk is a small simple corner unit.
The blurb said a 15 minute job,
but it took me two hours to put together.
The iMAC took 15 minutes from out of the box to set-up & online.
IMSMC my PC took about six hours, & never worked properly.
As an ex-stressed PC user this is the start of a new relationship with & attitude to computers!
The desk is a small simple corner unit.
The blurb said a 15 minute job,
but it took me two hours to put together.
The iMAC took 15 minutes from out of the box to set-up & online.
IMSMC my PC took about six hours, & never worked properly.
As an ex-stressed PC user this is the start of a new relationship with & attitude to computers!
They are a bloody travesty these iMACs, mine is so quiet I now can hear the transformer hum from my XPS, thankfully not all the time. 
quote:Originally posted by Derek Wright:
JonR a reasonably cheap backup solution is a USB or Firewire external drive eg a Seagate Freeagent and a copy of Superduper to create a full bootable copy of the main drive. If you pay for Superduper it will run the backups on a schedule and only transfer the data that has changed.
If the main drive fails you can then boot from the external drive and also use the external drive to format your replacement internal drive and then Superduper your back up disk to the new main drive.
Or you could use Carbon Copy Cloner, which is free.
Personally I prefer to clone a disc rather than do incremental or differential back-ups. Back-up is only half the story, being able to restore is the key - it is dead easy to restore from a clone. My favourite way to store really important things is to burn them on to DVD or CD - infact you can keep all your valued music downloads safe on CD, I wonder if it'll catch on
Don't the assorted writable optical media have a relatively short life? 