SOCIAL: A note for Mac users: Please Use Time Machine / Time Capsule

[Amandeep Jawa]

IF YOU USE A MAC, I HOPE YOU READ THIS.  For those of you on Windows,  
ummmm.....  good luck with that.

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Hey folks -

I *really* *really* want you to buy a Time Capsule or start using  
Time Machine.  And I can get you a discount (15% off!).  No, Apple  
doesn't need the money. No, I don't get a cut or even work on the  
Time Capsule team.


I ask you to do this because I care about you.  And specifically,  
because I know the horrors of data loss.  Think of your iTunes  
library, or your iPhoto pictures or all those things you've written  
or all those emails that you want to save.  Some day your hard drive  
will die.  Or you'll drop your Mac.  Or something else bad will  
happen.  And on that day you will either say:

a) I'm glad 'Deep made me buy a Time Capsule.
b) F$&^k, I wish I listened to 'Deep and bought a Time Capsule.


So what am I talking about?

- The new MacOS X Leopard has a feature called Time Machine.  It is  
really cool "you never have to think about it after you turn it on"  
back up service that will automatically save your work, hourly,  
daily, and monthly.  It also makes it super easy to retrieve things  
from the past and even kinda FUN to do so.   All Time Machine needs  
to silently and constantly save-your-ass is an external hard drive  
(they're pretty cheap* these days) just plug it in to your Mac & turn  
on Time Machine & point it at the drive. Done.  Ass saved.

See the pretty pictures:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html


- If you use a laptop, like most of us, things get slightly more  
complicated because though you could use Time Machine and just  
remember to plug in a hard drive periodically so Time Machine could  
do it's thing, I know you won't.  I know I won't.  That is where Time  
Capsule comes in.  Time Capsule is a new Apple WiFi (Airport) Base  
Station with a Big Hard Drive built in.  It is designed to be used  
with Time Machine, but you never have to plug it in to your Mac.  It  
will just work quietly in the background and wirelessly be saving  
your ass once an hour all the time.    It is also a nice WiFi base  
station - so you can replace your older WiFi base station with the  
latest tech and better range all in one fell swoop.  And, if you are  
a multiple Mac household, it will back up all your Macs - nice.  Also  
the quality of the hard drive in a Time Capsule will probably make it  
much less prone to HD failure than a lot of drives that you would buy  
for yourself.

More pretty pictures:
http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/

I can get you Leopard for 15% and a Time Capsule for 15% off.  It is  
worth it. trust me.

I really really hope some of you take me up on this.  I honestly  
think this is important.  Most of us have so much stuff that means so  
much to us on our computers.  This is the best way to guard against  
the data loss that is inevitably coming. I hate to be a fear-monger.   
But hard drive loss/failure is honestly inevitable.  I can't  
guarantee that you won't ever lose something  from your computer, but  
with Time Machine / Time Capsule your risks are seriously reduced.


Help me help you :-)
'deep


* Hard drive are cheap in the literal sense - you can find them as  
low as $125 for 500 GB, but compared to the value of your data they  
are INSANELY cheap.





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Amandeep Jawa
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San Francisco, CA 94110-2320

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