Get a Mac - Time Machine

[wjm1406]

SO THATS WHY MAC NEVER HAS ENOUGH SPACE

[gecko77z]

Even MS-DOS 6.2 had this shit. It was called UNDELETE.

[Testdrive98]

hmmm.... if i wanted to recover deleted files i would just go to the recycle bin.

[Grimmjow1Jaegerjaque]

@Testdrive98 but if you emptty the thrash, you won't be able to do that, duh

[JaydenZechner1997]

PC's Suck even tho i have one MACS FTW!!!!!!1

[danhoot12]

All pc users just blae mac because they cant afford one, or bla bla bla. But in the deep inside of everyone... everyone knows mac is the best!!

[TheStupidMovies]

@danhoot12 or maybe we know that pc has all the features included on a mac

plus we have access to all of steam not just the steam-play ones

[l1vefordaweekend]

That's the exact sought of thing that mac would bitch about.

"All this unnecessary backup features"

Lol

[BoyAsVenus]

Macs are for hipsters--and kids with more money than employment offers.

[BlueFoxTV]

Who needs this. Just copy all your files to a external HDD manually, Takes like 15 seconds Ctrl-A Ctrl-C Ctr-V done.

And if you going from one PC to another just use windows EZ transfer it's been around since win 2000.

[str8out]

Well, it was about time for mac! Good for you!!! Now you can enjoy the same feature the PC has had for while already.

[Ghostshooter23]

GMOD

[KVNWSHRE5]

lol they even got the folder color right instead of a cheap yellow one.

[KillzonePOL]

@KVNWSHRE5 ye 

[MrTranslator4b]

BUMPER CARS !!!!!!!!

[chiarona99]

uff io ho un pc ma voglio il mac

[CaptainSkullCat]

I expected them to get run over by a train, but I watched gmod idiot box first...

Time 'sheen

[Personaboutspeed]

@CaptainSkullCat Haha, that's the first thing i thought of when i saw this xD Gmod FTW

[kille6525]

to me it sounds like the mac doesnt have a recycle bin so when they delete something it is gone! lol

[guitarman2134568]

@kille6525 lol they do but some people go like "hm well its in there... mightaswell delete it lol.

[blobloblo6]

First, do backups anyway. If your hard drive crashes, you're shit outta luck.

Second, how much HD space does this hog up?

Third, doesn't the PC already have this feature?

[si421]

My PC is shit. Windows wasn't installed properly, i have corrupt files. I can't access certain things on the control panel.

Have never had any viruses on this, i am the only one to use it.

It's just over a year old. And it's outdated by Windows 7!

MAC FTW

[LordOrwell2]

if you can't access all parts of your control panel you are in fact infected with malware. If you're the only one to use it then YOU DID IT! And win7 doesn't outdate anything. It can't run any software that vista can't run. Try installing dx9 on win2k. Not THAT'S outdated.

[neverfearchrisishere]

.... so if it wasn't installed properly why didn't you send it back to the shop?

[Jackknifejeremy]

i <3 mac

[Jeremias98667]

Lol, "Hello im a mac" "Ahhh!"

[TheSillygoose07]

Ha, Funny! I <3 Mac

[docthy]

pc has the same, Shadows copy comes to mind :)

[fetcher022]

I thought the System Restore only restores installed programs and system settings but not files? Or am I wrong?

[apbrit2009]

pc's have had this feature since the first hard drives

they added the feature because mac users complained about not being able to recover accidentally deleted files

[supercooldude2121]

@apbrit2009 Lies

[Nilsfried]

@apbrit2009 so where can I find this option in Windows 7? Or XP?

[confusioncaption]

@Nilsfried It's called system restore

[mattcifelli]

this awesome new program will completely fill the hard drive in like a week mcFail

[FrizTuts]

No. Makes a large backup initially and only syncs files that have changed after that. Once the drive is full it begins to delete the oldest backups. I think it's really a good system.

[mattcifelli]

but it still fills your hard drive

then starts deleting

oh wait what happens if the file that you want is really old...makes the program kinda useless eh?

[rocktheworld2k6]

wow. you use an external hard drive for this. so if your hard drive dies you can recover all the files. a pc backs up to the regular hard drive. so if the hard drive dies, the files are gone.

[SuperMasterLuigi1000]

lol mas =SUPER FAIL

[krimskrams]

didn't this dude play in die hard 4?

[CCWAVES]

yerp haha

[Killery96]

@krimskrams YUP! HAHAHAH!

[superyomomma101]

@krimskrams yup his name is Justin Long.

[snupers]

Windows is the best. Mac sucks it just a pc with a aple that has a bitemark on. It cant even play a big game.

[Dieliziozo]

hahaha damn envious

your mental capacities prevent you to have one mac.

[NickBlackDIN]

windows has done that since the start.. it's called "unformat" (and similar.. depending what you need)

[iphoneluvr]

Windows has the recycle bin!

[julianbell90]

there is also a thing called system restore found in vista

[mepatuhoo]

o and when i mean cheap hard where i mean its made cheaply but they still charge 3 time the price. so just to clarifying that i am in no way saying that the cost of a mac is affordable.

[mepatuhoo]

yay mac managed to take something as simple as the trash bin and add a terabyte of graphics to it to slow down the cheap hardware they give you ROFL

[ibpointless2]

Mac has always had a trash bin, and time machine takes up little to no resources. Time machine is automatic back up of everything on a user computer, so if the hard drive would crash or if the user deletes a file form the trash bin, they can recover it easily.

[IamtheVOICE123]

Um... ok this makes no fucking sense, first off if your hardrive crashes, all the files lost regardless if you even have time machine, your hardrive dies you have no way of recovering the files, not perhaps if your hardrive get's corrupted then yes but if your hardrive crashes/dies, then thats it. Oh and also this is why backup hardrives were created.

[mepatuhoo]

i have an idea lets all go back to DOS and just do this

Stupid user>C:format

computer talking>ok ill do that

stupid user>where did my files go.

lol computer one, you zero

[IamtheVOICE123]

Yah thats great and all but Windows has had a feature like that since Windows 98 called System Restore which effectively is the same thing only with a few differences.

[ibpointless2]

System Restore only restored the OS not the entire hard drive and the user files. time machine makes a back up of everything( yes everything). The great thing about time machine is it works automatically so incase a users hard drive crashes or they lose a document they can recover it from time machine.

[IamtheVOICE123]

Um... wtf are you even talking about? System Restore does not restore the OS; it restores it to a restore image and you have the option of either restoring the files, or restoring to the last known program you installed.

Your thinking PC Restore, not the same thing

[ibpointless2]

if your hard drive dies you buy a new one and use time machine to copy everything to the new drive, so its like it never happen because time machine uses a external hard drive to back up all of your data. you pick a date on time machine to restore and all your data is back as before the hard drive crash. The best part is it comes with EVERY mac. to use system restore the user has to tell the os when to restore, time machine automatically does this and more out of the box.

[IamtheVOICE123]

And yet you can get opensource programs that do essentially the same thing and have been doing the same thing since 2002 on Solaris. The first introduction of it was done through Windows, and Solaris took it, improved the model, and then finally Linux takes it and does exactly what time machine does a year later after solaris does it through an opensource linux app in 2004. So what's your point?

[IamtheVOICE123]

Also your acting like this is something revolutionary... guess what? it's not. Apple copied that from the Linux app. called "Time Copy."

Yet it was never actually implimented and never really took off that well because nobody was interested. However here is a forum of what the Linux community says about your time machine...

ht tp:/ /ww w. madpenguin. org / cms / ?m=show&id=8097

[mepatuhoo]

i can see that eating up a lot of hard drive space that i could use on other stuff. if i wanted to back something up i would burn a cd. but for people that randomly delete things because there IQ is 5 i can see how this can help them. but better method, just don't do stupid stuff on your computer.

[rb29ferr]

idiot its called accidents..... no ones perfect.... when your in college and working on a 16 page paper and accidentally delete it your fucked..... and you would need a external to use this feature.... i have it and i love it.... i don't have any worries... windows does not have something like this

[mepatuhoo]

if your "accedently" deleting your files then your right you need this. but as for people that dont have problems like that there is no need to eat up hard drive space. and you can run it on the same hard drive. and every OS out there has a program that can do this. so stop talking you dont know anything. i can run a backup program on a mac, window(any one of them) linux/unix, menuet, floppix you name it there is an app out there that can do this exact thing.

[mepatuhoo]

i work with documents all day long most of them can be around +5,000 lines long. they can be any type of code or notes from php to java to c/c++, ill have folders for one app that will have +40 files each ranging 10,000 - 2,000 lines per file and i never have any problems with "accidents" as you say. so really look at who your calling an idiot. just because you need a tool that others will never need makes you no more greater nor they to you.

[mepatuhoo]

o almost forgot to mention that its really hard to "accidentally" delete files being that every os has a trash bin that saves your deleted files for a time. so even if you did "accidentally" delete a file you can just restore it with out this backup software.

[ibpointless2]

This is true but what if your hard drive dies on you, time machine is there to restore all your files and settings to a new hard drive. time machine is really use full, i have deleted stuff that i needed or have been looking for and spotlight and time machine was able to find them and restore it like was before. the best part of time machine is that it does all of this automatically.

[IamtheVOICE123]

Ok my friend allow me to specify something here.

If your hardrive crashes under a RAID configuration of 0-6 then their is no way to make a backup of it since the RAID utilizes what hardrives work together. Secondly, the only way time machine would work the way you state it, is if you have a backup hardrive. Either way your shit out of luck. Also their are third party opensource apps out there that do essentially the same thing.

[happytreefriend25]

But if you've deleted something from your PC(mac is a personal computer!) and you can get it back using time machine, wouldnt that mean that it was never really gone in the first place just hidden away by macs claim that it can revive the dead and lost?

[ibpointless2]

No it was just moved to a external hard drive for backup. You back up your data for "just in case" things.

[happytreefriend25]

Thats not bad although windows can do that also and its been done since windows ME.

[Andr3icK]

-.- external hard drive ... so this is bs if the hdd dies then you are fucked up.

[LordOrwell2]

it's a backup. If it dies you aren't out of anything. HOwever if the internal drive dies this will save you. However for god's sake make sure you have all patches. They've had data loss problems with older versions.

[SexyMelon]

That's how it works on PCs anyway.

Nothing in the Recycle Bin is ever deleted anyway, just chalked up as writable space.

[WinVistaUser2]

I wish I had a mac...

But they cost $1,299.99 to $5,999.99

Is there anyway I can get one that's less, like from eBay, or Amazon?

[woodward215]

craigslist for sure

[remcosloots]

love the mac, but isn't it a bussines computer instead of a computer for at your home?

[MB3141]

funny but pc does the same thing.

[yoshionthego]

different ways, though, Time Machine is pretty.

[gecko77z]

@yoshionthego pretty computers are gay only

[johnstangg]

actually PC does not do the "same" thing. it's an un-user friendly process to trace back files and actually when you delete them, they are gone. you'd have to buy this type of software for a PC.

[cushman64]

kool very funny