*looks at clock*

[kyburg]

Yup. Home with Mini in tow, and she's booting like a champ. However, whatever got corrupted on the hard drive could happen again, so I'll be looking for an outboard drive to begin doing complete backups on a regular basis - and keep the Applecare contract current.

I *heart* my Apple Store. Only thing they were missing were cookies.

Comments

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

If you're looking at possibly spending a couple hundred anyway, have you thought about getting an archival program? Some HD's come with them, as I think the 250GB drive we have does.

Also, back to backing up programs, while that's a fairly simple matter on the Mac OS, it's a lot trickier with Windows. Some programs install bits and pieces of themselves into the OS itself (Registry), and you can't backup all of Windows with Stuffit. At least not as far as I am aware.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I *heart* Stuffit - it's cheap, it does everything I want it do, I can control it and all that jazz.

Windows, Mac - I keep it all and let God figure it out on the back end if it comes to that.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

Okay. I won't argue methods with you anymore. ;)

I don't think we have what you're looking for, though. Unless you think 250GB is enough for everything. We have larger drives, but those are internal.

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. We got these in this week.

What do you think? 320GB enough?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*drools* Oh yeaaaaaah. How much are they going for?

[dracowayfarer.livejournal.com]

They're $129 a pop. Still amazed at how much prices have dropped on HD's over the last year alone. That's less than $.50 per gigabyte - and that's for an external!