OS X is rock solid, it has so many new features that we've lost count of them, and you can backup individual files and folders states Craig Crossman host of the Computer America Radio Show
(PRWEB) August 28, 2004 -- Believe it or not, there still are Macintosh users out there using the officially dead Mac OS 9 operating system. Ok, so maybe I shouldn't be so incredulous about that. After all, there are people out there still using Windows 98 and Windows ME too. Now I recognize the fact that some legacy applications exist that you must have which just won't work using the latest OS. Or the computer does exactly what it needs to do so why bother with a costly hardware upgrade or new machine to run the newer operating system? I'll give you those. And by the way, Mac OS 9 is "officially" dead because Apple hasn't made a Macintosh that will start up in OS 9 for some time now. In fact, the only way you can run OS 9 on any newer machine is in the OS X "Classic" mode. But until recently there was one ability I sorely missed with Mac OS 9 and that was the ease of making a backup.
To make a partial or total backup in Mac OS 9, all you had to do was simply drag any file, folder or disk image onto the image of another disk. The latter would copy the System folder that contained everything it needed to make a bootable backup of the entire drive. That all changed with OS X. Yes OS X is rock solid, it has so many new features that we've lost count of them, and you can backup individual files and folders. But you can't use OS X to make a total hard disk backup.
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http://www.computeramerica.com/content/columns/craig/2004/2004-08-23.htm
Craig Crossman is a Knight-Ridder newspaper columnist writing about computers and technology. He also hosts the nation's longest running nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers and technology, Computer America, heard on the Business Talk Radio network weeknights at 10PM ET. In South Florida, you can hear a rebroadcast of a selected Computer America show each Sunday evening at 8PM ET on WJNO 1290AM.
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