“Time Machine is Apple’s answer to the problems associated with backing up data. The idea behind the utility is to make the process as quick, simple, and as painless as possible. The easier the backup process is, the more likely people are to use it and the safer their data will be,” Adrian Kingsley-Hughes blogs for ZDNet.
“Rather than waffle on about Time machine, I’m just going to cut to the point. Is Time Machine as good as Apple wants us to believe it is? In a word, yes. My experiences with Time Machine so far lead me to conclude that it’s not just good, it’s brilliant. It’s fantastic. It’s what I wish every backup tool was like,” Kingsley-Hughes reports.
Kingsley-Hughes details why he’s “thrilled” with Time Machine and calls it “an absolute winner” in the full article here.
Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard’s Time Machine:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Yes, but can it put William Shatner back into Star Trek?
“Yes, but can it put William Shatner back into Star Trek?”
No, it’s power can only be used for good, not for evil.
It has a built in fail/safe function for when someone attempts to disrupt the space/time continuum.
How are you liking those blue screens Leopard users?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857
Time Machine is wicked…. but it cannot forward 3 million years it will take Windblows user to evolve to Mac.
@aribitrary code
You mean the blue screen that’s induced only when the user has an extremely hacky piece of outdated software installed? The same software that makes system level changes to the OS code? In fact, bits of code that aren’t at all arbitrary…?
MDN Magic Word: actually
as in, it actually sucks 🙁
I love it. Wait till he finds the hidden command to enable “Flux Capacitor Enabler”. hehe
that’s just awesome… i’m really looking forward to leopard, mostly for this feature
With Spaces and with Time Machine we have a virtual space/time continuum, you might say (or not).
It is good to see Apple’s real strength, the real foundation upon which the company is built, finally getting some attention. Mac OS X is quite possibly the most elegant and powerful general purpose operating system on the planet right now. Windows VISTA is crap in comparison. LINUX is an unpolished science project in comparison. When idiots ask Apple to build “Windows based Macs” it makes me laugh cause they just don’t get it. I don’t buy the box cause it’s pretty, I’m buying it cause that’s where OS X lives. Congratulations Apple on a job well done. Kinda makes up for the iphone.
@arbitrary code
“How are you liking those blue screens Leopard users?”
you mean, this one?
http://www.drury.net.nz/2007/10/26/leopard-easter-egg/
(when you view Windows machines in Cover Flow on your network)
I’m loving it!!!
Why are you using the old time machine video? .?
This is a big deal for Adrian. He’s never use OS X before and he’s one of the highly opinionated bloggers on ZDNet who suffers from a major Mac knowledge vacuum.
I hope he isn’t setting us up, like Paul Thurrott (rhymes with turd rot), to later dump vitriol all over Leopard.
The Windows bloggers have lately adopted a new technique against Apple and Macs–build the expectation for them so high, with feigned praise, that the products are destined to fail, because nothing can sustain the kind of unrealistic quality that these bloggers project onto Apple’s products. Of course they assert their disengenuous attitudes by pretending to be taking on nothing more than the zealousness of an average Mac user. So they accomplish two goals–reveal Apple’s technology flaws and denigrate the Mac community.
They make their journey on the behalf of the lay-user, so they can impart their wisdom: best to stay with the less hyperbolic but more honest offerings of Microsoft.
Time Machine is great. I love it.
Except…. it prevents your Mac from going to sleep automatically. I have my sleep time set for 57 minutes, so it should sleep 57 minutes after the last hourly incremental backup (which only takes a minute, usually), but it never does. Turn off TM and dismount the drive, and it sleeps in 57 mins after last activity, like it should.
Anyone else NOT experiencing this?
TM just saved my ass when I was fooling around and reinstalled Safari and lost all my settings and Bookmarks. I just plugged in my Lacie HD, went back in time and restored all my settings.
Very easy and cool indeed.
just spent the day installing (clean) Leopard. Well guess what nothing works. Print drivers don’t work. Parallels crashes (build 5160) on startup. Filemaker DOA. Time machine ended up being a black hole on two of our macs. Either apple released too soon or developers were unprepared. Either way feels like a day in the life of MSFT.
How apt is your handle vis-à-vis your honesty.
Coz, either you iz inept or you iz trolling.
Speak English instead of that drivel your spouting
Before you start accusing someone of trolling or ineptness why don’t you try strolling over to the APPLE discussion boards for validation of what happened to me. The boards are swamped with similar stories. This isn’t just some isolated incident. This is widespread across a wide range of issues for a new release of an upgrade to an operating system that has been in beta for how long? BTW one install was on a brand new out of the box MBPro and still leopard was vomiting all over the place.
Speak English instead of that drivel your spouting
Before you start accusing someone of trolling or ineptness why don’t you try strolling over to the APPLE discussion boards for validation of what happened to me. The boards are swamped with similar stories. This isn’t just some isolated incident. This is widespread across a wide range of issues for a new release of an upgrade to an operating system that has been in beta for how long? BTW one install was on a brand new out of the box MBPro and still leopard was vomiting all over the place.
Speak English instead of that drivel your spouting
Before you start accusing someone of trolling or ineptness why don’t you try strolling over to the APPLE discussion boards for validation of what happened to me. The boards are swamped with similar stories. This isn’t just some isolated incident. This is widespread across a wide range of issues for a new release of an upgrade to an operating system that has been in beta for how long? BTW one install was on a brand new out of the box MBPro and still leopard was vomiting all over the place.
Speak English instead of that drivel your spouting
Before you start accusing someone of trolling or ineptness why don’t you try strolling over to the APPLE discussion boards for validation of what happened to me. The boards are swamped with similar stories. This isn’t just some isolated incident. This is widespread across a wide range of issues for a new release of an upgrade to an operating system that has been in beta for how long? BTW one install was on a brand new out of the box MBPro and still leopard was vomiting all over the place.
Speak English instead of that drivel your spouting
Before you start accusing someone of trolling or ineptness why don’t you try strolling over to the APPLE discussion boards for validation of what happened to me. The boards are swamped with similar stories. This isn’t just some isolated incident. This is widespread across a wide range of issues for a new release of an upgrade to an operating system that has been in beta for how long? BTW one install was on a brand new out of the box MBPro and still leopard was vomiting all over the place.
@crumbling foundation
– I can’t comment on your other issues, but regarding Filemaker compatibility, there is an update due around 19th November:
Filemaker Press Release
Above article suggests subscribing to Filemaker News:
http://www.filemaker.com/news/newsletter_admin.html
Hope everything else works out OK for you.
God Bless,
Sacha,
England