@ michaelb1,you've GOT to be kidding, right? I consider myself an apply fanboy but Time Machine is a piece of s**t. You evidently haven't used it or are just a sucker for the legendary apple RDF. If you are backing up any reasonably LARGE file, any change to that file backs up a NEW copy, eating away your backup space. Maybe it was a good idea when they were milling over the idea of using ZFS, which they evidently did not do (unless there are still more Leopard surprises, which there won't be). Also the interface is pure eyecandy. It's pathetic.Third party and FREE backup solutions let you choose how to do the backups, how often, where, what format, how to handle duplicates, increntals and a million other options. Time Machine has on and off and which drive to use. I am surprised they even have exceptions to let you not backup particular locations. That saved my hard drive from backing up a new copy of my itunes library file (~40MB) each time i played a song and it incremented the playcount. Again, pathetic (and this is coming from someone who has been running leopard AND time machine since the first seed and still is).
ahh, but i am Australian, $199. and we don't have iPhone store credit, because we don't have the iPhone. Anyhow, like a lot of mac users, i wont upgrade my OS, until i upgrade my mac.
I got a tech question. I've already got bootcamp 1.4 and it works fine. I'm not sure if/when I'll upgrade to leopard. I'm sure I'll do that at some point. Anyway, here's my question:I was thinking of maybe switching over to use Parallels instead of Bootcamp so I don't have to reboot each time. I use loan origination software that can only be used on the PC side and I might do some other online stuff that I can only use Explorer for a certain website. So, ultimately what I'm wondering is, how would I go about installing and using Parallels when I've already got a partition with Bootcamp? Can I just set it up so that it uses the Windows programs I already have on that partition? Has anyone already done that? Thanks for the help. Phil
I don't know if anyone has realised this - but there is a workaround to make boot camp usable again. Simply change the date of your computer to before October 2007, click on boot camp and VOILA! it works fine. Well it worked fine on all of my macs...please let me know if this works for you. nd yes Phil you can use the Bootcamp partition on parallels. Cheers
Yes it worked for me too. Also im not going to tell you how, but im going to tell you that you can find the latest boot camp and Leopard OS for download on the internet.
billionsOct 3, 2007
Plus Digidesign has been moving faster to support OS X releases, you shouldn't have to wait long.
bjeanesOct 3, 2007
@ michaelb1,you've GOT to be kidding, right? I consider myself an apply fanboy but Time Machine is a piece of s**t. You evidently haven't used it or are just a sucker for the legendary apple RDF. If you are backing up any reasonably LARGE file, any change to that file backs up a NEW copy, eating away your backup space. Maybe it was a good idea when they were milling over the idea of using ZFS, which they evidently did not do (unless there are still more Leopard surprises, which there won't be). Also the interface is pure eyecandy. It's pathetic.Third party and FREE backup solutions let you choose how to do the backups, how often, where, what format, how to handle duplicates, increntals and a million other options. Time Machine has on and off and which drive to use. I am surprised they even have exceptions to let you not backup particular locations. That saved my hard drive from backing up a new copy of my itunes library file (~40MB) each time i played a song and it incremented the playcount. Again, pathetic (and this is coming from someone who has been running leopard AND time machine since the first seed and still is).
gerrymacOct 4, 2007
ahh, but i am Australian, $199. and we don't have iPhone store credit, because we don't have the iPhone. Anyhow, like a lot of mac users, i wont upgrade my OS, until i upgrade my mac.
msgyrdOct 7, 2007
Battery life. Running a VM eats battery faster than just running Windows natively.
philinpdxNov 4, 2007
I got a tech question. I've already got bootcamp 1.4 and it works fine. I'm not sure if/when I'll upgrade to leopard. I'm sure I'll do that at some point. Anyway, here's my question:I was thinking of maybe switching over to use Parallels instead of Bootcamp so I don't have to reboot each time. I use loan origination software that can only be used on the PC side and I might do some other online stuff that I can only use Explorer for a certain website. So, ultimately what I'm wondering is, how would I go about installing and using Parallels when I've already got a partition with Bootcamp? Can I just set it up so that it uses the Windows programs I already have on that partition? Has anyone already done that? Thanks for the help. Phil
danc2Nov 8, 2007
I don't know if anyone has realised this - but there is a workaround to make boot camp usable again. Simply change the date of your computer to before October 2007, click on boot camp and VOILA! it works fine. Well it worked fine on all of my macs...please let me know if this works for you. nd yes Phil you can use the Bootcamp partition on parallels. Cheers
virgilaugNov 10, 2007
Yes it worked for me too. Also im not going to tell you how, but im going to tell you that you can find the latest boot camp and Leopard OS for download on the internet.