I would say without a reliable backup I would have been hesitant, time machine has already saved me from a serious disk crash so I was confident. Time will tell - everything else is operating fine. I would say its well worth the upgrade just for that (about $40 in Australia). My perception is that things are going faster, which is what was promised by Apple. I have since upgraded iWork and iLife but I will save that for another thread. Never mind, the ladies will have to do without my handsome looks.ĭidn't check the disk usage before I started (I have heaps free), but the first time machine backup afterwards was a bit over 8GB if that is any indication.Īnyway all my photos and music survived which is what matters the most to me. Always have Microsoft messenger anyway (but no iSight). It took about 2 beers which I guess is about one hour.ĪMSN won't start but that's a dodgy app anyway. Weeks later, after wasting time with countless 'Windows Specialists' (the term is laughable), he bought a Mac. The client's bills were all paid up - so I dropped them, and explained to them that I have no intention of keeping on working with clients that lack the most basic of common sense. Upon inquiring why they never did anything: Now, their computer was unusable, and their OS was hosed. Turns out they never, ever, did any updates, or bothered following through on any of my suggestions. Weeks later, their system collapses - I get the call, of course. I have certain clients (Windows users), who I am able to tell the same thing, including a strong recommendation to update their viral definitions, and run various clean-up utilities. Also, stopping malware is kind of important imho, if somebody brings in an infected drive I will tell them that their system is compromised and recommend that they do some house cleaning before they start typing in their banking info to a machine with key-loggers and trojans running.and you can rest assured that they will do nothing about it.

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