If you are going to get Mac OS 10 Leopard (10.5 I believe), and have an external drive, and intend on using the Time Machine, there is a caveat. As Ars Technica reports, Time Machine will detect changes in files or directories, but not changes WITHIN files. What this means to you is if a file changes size or other attribute, it gets backed up.
Normally this is fine but in the case of a really huge file that changes just a tiny bit, this may mean that you are backing up multiple gigabytes every time Time Machine performs a backup. Such a file would be a Microsoft Entourage mailbox file, or a virtualization server sandbox file.
Ars Technica reports there is a way of excluding specific files, so you may want to take some care to do this ahead of time.
Normally this is fine but in the case of a really huge file that changes just a tiny bit, this may mean that you are backing up multiple gigabytes every time Time Machine performs a backup. Such a file would be a Microsoft Entourage mailbox file, or a virtualization server sandbox file.
Ars Technica reports there is a way of excluding specific files, so you may want to take some care to do this ahead of time.
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I'm sitting here in my office with a glass of cranberry juice, listening to Groove Salad and thinking that this Mac Mini will never be a good gaming system. However, it's a marvelous everything else, is silent and looks good to boot.
I am blogging, surfing, listening to iTunes, chatting with my boo in Adium (Multi-IM client) and watching the background image change every 5 minutes to something new. Yeah, probably nothing really difficult for any halfway-decent system to do, but OS X makes it all look really, really good.
I admit I'm technologically shallow (that doesn't mean ignorant!) I don't know how to code and I rarely look under the hood so I'm mostly just appreciating how easy to use it is. But I will say this, my Mac has been running continuously now for weeks, it puts itself to sleep when I'm not using it and wakes up when I hit a key. I only remember it crashing once, ever, and a reboot fixed it. I have upgraded from Panther to Tiger with no loss of operability or reinstallation of any applications. I have even installed World of Warcraft so that Andrea can play when she visits.
Last week I bought a Mac Wireless bluetooth keyboard and took it out of the box, slotted the batteries and turned it on. Knowing that I ordered the Mini with bluetooth, I went to the keyboard control panel, bluetooth button, clicked associate. It had me type in a few numbers. In moments, the keyboard was working perfectly.
In other words, it is simply rock solid.
I am blogging, surfing, listening to iTunes, chatting with my boo in Adium (Multi-IM client) and watching the background image change every 5 minutes to something new. Yeah, probably nothing really difficult for any halfway-decent system to do, but OS X makes it all look really, really good.
I admit I'm technologically shallow (that doesn't mean ignorant!) I don't know how to code and I rarely look under the hood so I'm mostly just appreciating how easy to use it is. But I will say this, my Mac has been running continuously now for weeks, it puts itself to sleep when I'm not using it and wakes up when I hit a key. I only remember it crashing once, ever, and a reboot fixed it. I have upgraded from Panther to Tiger with no loss of operability or reinstallation of any applications. I have even installed World of Warcraft so that Andrea can play when she visits.
Last week I bought a Mac Wireless bluetooth keyboard and took it out of the box, slotted the batteries and turned it on. Knowing that I ordered the Mini with bluetooth, I went to the keyboard control panel, bluetooth button, clicked associate. It had me type in a few numbers. In moments, the keyboard was working perfectly.
In other words, it is simply rock solid.
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