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- dgblackout, on 01/14/2008, -4/+368i like how the mac guy changes his clothes every hour.
- Wailord, on 01/14/2008, -20/+307Good to see one that doesn't devote itself to bashing Vista.
- Urkel, on 01/14/2008, -8/+250This is what an apple ad should be. Rather than wasting time putting down a competitor, they instead took the time to actually talk about a feature that non-mac users probably have no idea about.
- r1y23, on 01/14/2008, -38/+261I still like PC more than that smug little bastard.
I feel for ya PC - myempyrean, on 01/14/2008, -3/+168or.. we could go to a direct link and not through someones blog.
http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads - yobboninja, on 01/14/2008, -13/+146I liked the ad, but did i really have to click 3 links to get to it?
- RandoTheKing, on 01/14/2008, -35/+117Incremental backups. Yeah, my PC is scheduled to do that also, but let me guess, this is more user friendly?
- rojano17, on 01/14/2008, -1/+78Its a widely known fact that mac users are obsessed with their desktop backgrounds
- affanjam, on 01/14/2008, -2/+74Before it was "You suck because...." now its "We're awesome because...".
- GayMafiaKingpin, on 01/14/2008, -8/+74Did your clicker finger get tired? You can take a breather if needed. I know the Interwebs can be exhausting at times.
- NeoCortex, on 01/14/2008, -66/+129Wow. It's like a SYSTEM that can RESTORE stuff for you. What will PC ever do?
- Ireland, on 01/14/2008, -6/+69John Hodgeman is a likable guy, and a comedian. For what it's worth though.. he's actually a Mac user.
- Brenner14, on 01/14/2008, -1/+62he also slightly changes the thickness of his mustache
- inactive, on 01/14/2008, -0/+55All mac owners change their clothes every hour. As a non-mac user, you're just not sophisticated enough to notice.
- bdubya, on 01/14/2008, -27/+74..and Vista doesn't?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ... - binder520, on 01/14/2008, -13/+56Leopard's Time Machine application allows users to selectively preview and restore archive files. This feature, not incremental backups, is what makes Time Machine a unique back up application.
- sirbeta, on 01/14/2008, -11/+53My thoughts exactly. There have been no shortage of those lately. It was getting pretty old, pretty fast.
- epyon180, on 01/14/2008, -7/+45I'm not gonna try to argue with someone who compares timemachine with system restore.
- inactive, on 01/14/2008, -1/+38I'd advise you stay away from Wikipedia or Counter Strike, unless you want arthritis or something...
- mateo60, on 01/14/2008, -2/+38I installed a new hard drive the other day in my Macbook. When I put the new drive in, put the Leopard disc in and booted up, I selected "Restore from Time Machine" and walked away. 30 minutes later, the new drive was exactly like my old one, but bigger. It was by far the easiest hard drive swap I've ever had to do. That was the firs time I was truly impressed with Time Machine.
- bitspace, on 01/14/2008, -5/+39As has been pointed out numerous times, System Restore lets you restore your entire system to a saved point in time. Time Machine is more like a versioned filesystem that allows you to view and restore individual files going back as many versions for as long as you've had the system.
- almostadesigner, on 01/14/2008, -6/+35System restore and Time machine are completely different.
- binder520, on 01/14/2008, -8/+37Leopard's Time Machine application allows users to selectively preview and restore archive files. This feature, not incremental backups, is what makes Time Machine a unique back up application.
- EvilAnimator, on 01/14/2008, -2/+30It's not the same feature, smartass.
- journeyman2011, on 01/14/2008, -5/+32See, the whole problem with the Vista implementation is this:
"Some product features are only available in certain editions of Windows Vista and may require advanced or additional hardware." - rojano17, on 01/14/2008, -0/+26O RLY?
- jads, on 01/14/2008, -4/+30Good lord, how many comments are stating "Windows or whatever has had backup for years!" - so has the Mac, or any other platform. The difference is that Time Machine requires no user interaction or scheduling, it will just do it. Do you know how many people actually backup? It isn't many, it's estimated at around 4% of computer users regularly backup. That's pitiful. Now that's not just the average consumer taking data for granted, I've seen plenty of failed drives from supposedly 'technical' people who never, ever backed up and were literally in tears when they had the news broken to them that they'd lost all data.
Apart from the versioning, Time Machine isn't trying to be more than a Backup, it's trying to make it as transparent as possible. People with Leopard now have no real excuse not to backup. You just plug in an external drive, tell Time Machine to use it, then that's it. There's no schedule to set, no folders and files to pick.
It also has a form of versioning, so if you screw up a picture and save it, you can always go back to the original one even if it was saved months later. - DaffyDuck, on 01/14/2008, -16/+41I think the clothes are a metaphor for files. Different backups contain different files.
- rebotfc, on 01/14/2008, -3/+26The fact that this gets 36 diggs shows people still don't understand the features leopard offers.
- ramenite, on 01/14/2008, -5/+27They do make it a side comment that it's available in all versions of Leopard...I guess they are referring to client and server.
Shadow copy is only on Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise. Most computers shipped with Vista have Home Premium.
/does not like Apple
//runs Vista Ultimate 2: Championship Edition Turbo - lexdigg, on 01/14/2008, -37/+59Vista has the same feature (with the less spacey name "Previous Versions")..
- magicaltrevor, on 01/14/2008, -0/+21I do that too.
- johnpaul191, on 01/14/2008, -0/+21it's like insurance... when you DO need it, it's way too late to set it up.
as a side note, people have been using it to transfer data when replacing (upgrading) the internal drive in their MacBooks. - inactive, on 01/14/2008, -5/+26Time Machine provides a way to browse folders of backups, allowing you to restore a single file or an entire directory. The built in windows backup is a "all or nothing" type restore. I switched to a Mac over a year ago, but before that I was Windows only, and I have NEVER seen the Windows backup do anything but waste space and fail right before you need it. Time Machine, on the other hand, has saved me twice already.
- HanSolo69, on 01/14/2008, -3/+21You're absolutely right. Vista doesn't...unless you buy one of the top tier versions of it. Notice how in the ad they make a point to say that Time Machine is available on any Mac, because there aren't 50 versions of OSX.
- JARSInc, on 01/14/2008, -2/+20Direct link:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/ap ... - damndj, on 01/14/2008, -2/+20Time machine is not just for dummies who accidently delete a file AND empty the recycle bin. Consider that sometimes applications get corrupted, or files you're working with become damaged. Time Machine can save a lot of time by just quickly restoring from an hour ago.
I've used it a few times for instances such as this and I think to myself, "What a nice feature". You may not need it all the time, but when you do, you'll be thankful you turned it on. - planksconstant, on 01/14/2008, -2/+18not everybody keeps every file they've ever deleted in their recycle bin. and also, if your hard drive breaks, you'd have a hell of a time getting the files back that way. no one is saying this is a new feature, its just a new implementation of it. and time machine has saved my ass.
that said, its like the mac ad guys aren't even trying anymore. - Super6, on 01/14/2008, -0/+15I think blackout was making a joke
- nreynolds, on 01/14/2008, -2/+17thanks, pc*
- MioTheGreat, on 01/14/2008, -3/+16It's not System Restore, It's Volume Shadow Copy, or "Previous Versions" which does the same thing as Time Machine.
Though, System Restore actually uses VSS, so I can see how you'd mix them up. - yabos, on 01/14/2008, -2/+15It's not restoring from the recycle bin dummy. The Mac has the Trash. If you delete the file from your desktop or whatever other folder and I mean really delete it from the hard drive you can get it back through Time Machine. This is NOT system restore either because system restore, surprise, restores your SYSTEM. I guess you can't figure that part out so now you know.
- DarkDx, on 01/14/2008, -5/+18wich doesn't register every change made to the file...
- HerrEisenheim, on 01/14/2008, -9/+22Maybe Apple should FIX the Time Machine corruption issues before they start advertising it. It's far, far to easy to corrupt an entire Time Machine volume, especially if you use the same volume for more than one machine. I should be clear, the volume is still accessible, but Time Machine no longer functions. It's easy to do. Accidently unplugging the HDD without first ejecting is all it takes. There are about 6 other things you can do to cause it to become unusable in TM.
- stillasleep00, on 01/14/2008, -10/+23Yeah, it actually is.
- Campog, on 01/14/2008, -1/+14Or still think SYSTEM RESTORE is actually backing up thier whole system.
- awhiteflame, on 01/14/2008, -3/+16I think Apple is pretty happy with their marketing without your expert advice.
Not to be mean, but. - awhiteflame, on 01/14/2008, -6/+19System Restore only works when your system breaks. Not when something happens to a specific document. The whole point of it, in fact, is to ignore your documents and only focus on system data and program information.
- thrallie, on 01/14/2008, -1/+14how the ***** did you turn a discussion on john hodgeman into a ron paul bash session?
- DavisCollins, on 01/14/2008, -2/+14Oh, you mean not counting the two or three comments above that talk about Shadow Copy?
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