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Jesus, and here I thought this phenomenon was confined to those who didn't already own Macs.
I took the Mac plunge
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Jesus, and here I thought this phenomenon was confined to those who didn't already own Macs.
I programmed the trackpad with a right-click button, so it's pretty much the same. No need to buy a new mouse.
^Doesn't need to be a non-Apple mouse anyway. The standard Apple mouse supports right clicking.
Uh, what?
No no. Go back and read the page.
Let's say you have enough room for 5 backups of everything. Once you get to the 6th backup, it erases the oldest one. So the larger the drive, the further back in time you can go.
But if you only have a drive the same size as your computer's, you just get 1 backup of everything. It's up to you what kind of drive to buy, but it doesn't just stop backing up at some point.
That would be an amazingly bad design!
Howdy all! I am posting to you now from my brand new MacBook!
It is taking me forever to type anything because all the keys are spaced just slightly different from my old computer, so I keep hitting the question mark when I want to be hitting Shift. And when I go to delete the question mark, I keep hitting the damn = button!
But...I can scroll with two fingers on the trackpad. Oooh, aaahhh!
Anyway, I now begin the most annoying part of buying a new computer: transferring everything from the old computer! There's not a lot I need to transfer, mostly just pictures. I'm probably going to rip all my CDs onto the Mac instead of trying to transfer those files from my old computer. I need to reorganize my CD case anyway, so this will force me to do that.
Anyway, that will be my project for the next couple days. That and re-learning how to use this damn thing! I haven't been a Mac user since the 90s.
I think you can just shoot it over via wireless or USB for all your files..
I know it lets you do that with some things (like Installation software), and I know it lets you do it with other Macs, but I'm sure if you can do it with everything. I need to investigate.Howdy all! I am posting to you now from my brand new MacBook!
It is taking me forever to type anything because all the keys are spaced just slightly different from my old computer, so I keep hitting the question mark when I want to be hitting Shift. And when I go to delete the question mark, I keep hitting the damn = button!
But...I can scroll with two fingers on the trackpad. Oooh, aaahhh!
Anyway, I now begin the most annoying part of buying a new computer: transferring everything from the old computer! There's not a lot I need to transfer, mostly just pictures. I'm probably going to rip all my CDs onto the Mac instead of trying to transfer those files from my old computer. I need to reorganize my CD case anyway, so this will force me to do that.
Anyway, that will be my project for the next couple days. That and re-learning how to use this damn thing! I haven't been a Mac user since the 90s.
I think you can just shoot it over via wireless or USB for all your files..
I don't remember what the application is called, and I don't know where to find it!
Uh, what?
No no. Go back and read the page.
Let's say you have enough room for 5 backups of everything. Once you get to the 6th backup, it erases the oldest one. So the larger the drive, the further back in time you can go.
But if you only have a drive the same size as your computer's, you just get 1 backup of everything. It's up to you what kind of drive to buy, but it doesn't just stop backing up at some point.
That would be an amazingly bad design!
That does sound a bit more reasonable. The backup software that came with my first external drive, a Smartdisk Firelite, *did* simply give up once it filled the backup partition.
Of course, that drive failed after less than a year of using it. Got most of my data off by using OS9----OSX wouldn't let me get at it----but the drive is a lost cause, I'm now convinced. Every time I try to clean-wipe it and map out the bad blocks, the attempting program stalls or crashes. So not all that much quality there anyway.
