On Dec 1, 2007, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system
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Two questions about Macbook Pro -- card reader & backup
Second question:
She got the Macbook Pro last September. Would getting an external USB
or IEEE 1394 hard drive be beneficial for backup (i.e., would the
Mac OS
automatically back up like I've heard when an external hard drive is
connected? (There is a name for this, but I can't think of it.)
I got my daughter a pocket sized bus powered firewire and the
shareware backup program SuperDuper. After the first backup the
incremental backups take less than 15 minutes - often much less. And
she will have an identical drive that she can boot any intel mac from
and have it be indistinguishable from her original. I think that this
is better than Time Machine (Which I have never used.), but if you
get a drive that's twice as big as the laptop's you could do both.
Your daughter must have upgraded to Leopard on the mac to get Time
Machine. A few of the reviewers of Leopard have said how cool Time
Machine is, but that they would still rely on SuperDuper for backups.
David Newhall
Falls Church,VA
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