The Gut-Wrenching Feeling Of Outdated Apple Products

[derFunkenstein]

boof, Time Machine needs to back up to an AFP server, so a G4 tower running Tiger or Leopard is preferred. I know linux distros have AFP occasionally built-in or as an installable module, but I'd have to learn all that from scratch and I just can't be bothered. My time is worth money, and the money required to secure a cheap tower + an old version of OS X (Tiger) is way easier and the time saved pays for itself in either leisure or real dollars.

[bhtooefr]

Ah, fair enough.

(I don't really care about Time Machine, so...)

[derFunkenstein]

you would if you wanted automated backups of critical data on the Mac. If you're not using your Mac as a production machine, but simply as a web surf box or something similar where you can get automated uploads of your info to Mobile Me or bookmark sync services like Foxmarks, it's less important.

edit: not to be so dismissive, some people prefer to use a full drive backup software like Carbon Copy Cloner, it's just way more manual than Time Machine.

[bhtooefr]

See, I don't have all that much on the Mac, and stuff changes infrequently enough that automated backups are completely unnecessary.

[derFunkenstein]

right, yours is a status symbol and mine is an actual machine used to do stuff.

[Alex]

Bling bling, sir, bling, bling.

[bhtooefr]

Actually, no, mine sits in the corner, only used for iPhoto, really. It's the ThinkPad I use every day, including out in the world, because I can't stand a 1.2GHz G4 any more.

(Nor can I stand the crappy keyboard any more, or the fact that it occasionally likes to randomly power down, or the fact that the battery is sucktastic.)

[derFunkenstein]

Isn't that the one I suggested duct taping an external hard drive to the lid? Not much bling in that sort of laptop.

And backing up the iPhoto library is easy anyway.

[bhtooefr]

Exactly.

If I had OS X on this ThinkPad, I might be tempted to use Time Machine, but...

It looks like my next machine (to replace the ThinkPad actually) will be a Fujitsu P1630, after they come down in price some...