I woke up this morning at 5:00 for no apparent reason, so I thought I'd get up and install the new Apple OS that I just picked up yesterday afternoon.I backed up all of my important files to my external drive first (did that on Thursday, actually), just in case any problems occurred during the transition.
The installation took about an hour or so, and went very smoothly. Everything seems to be back up and running just fine.
One of the features that I was most interested in is Time Machine - a utility that will automatically back up your files. I had been using Retrospect for a while, but was very unsatisfied with it. I actually stopped using it all-together a few months ago, and have been looking for a better solution ever since.
Time Machine claims to keep:
-hourly backups for the past 24 hours
-daily backups for the past month
-weekly backups until your backup disk is full
cool. I started running it about 30 minutes ago, and it's chugging along now.
Another feature that I'm interested in is Boot Camp. This utility will allow me to run Windows on my Mac. This will come in very handy - I've had a separate PC set up for years so that I can test my web sites on dual platforms and browsers. I've also been running Quickbooks off of that, but I suppose I should upgrade to a Mac version of that,anyway.
Anyhow, so far, so good. I'm always happy when the upgrade to a new OS goes smoothly. It just seems like so many things could go wrong!
For testing sites, etc., you should just use parallels, not bootcamp. Bootcamp will use up a lot of your harddrive space. I do software development on my MBP using parallels and it's like running a windows laptop, only better. For one you can switch back and forth between os's like butter in real time.
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