Reply to: Well, I finally did it.

[fzbucks]

now I miss my LCII and performa (imac v-1.0)

[scooterscot]

Have not installed Leopard yet waiting until all the bugs are ironed out... besides there's no need to rush over everything works fine the way I need it right now.

[DaveB]

Upgraded to Leopard yesterday. Upgrade went smoothly but it seemed to break a few things and turn off several options that were defaults on Tiger.

Biggest issue was that I can no-longer browse my windows network from the finder. Not sure is this is a real bug of a configuration issue but I'm starting to think it;s a bug. Not a huge problem as I can still mount the volumes via SMB manually but still a nuisance.

Got time machine up and running without any hassle backing up to my old pc via the network. Very nice app that does exactly what it says on the tin.

Other than that I need to find my old windows install discs so I ca get boot camp set up.

[scooterscot]

Had a look into this & found that firewire 400\800 connections are different, so it shouldn't be too tricky to work out if my imac has 800 or not (I don't think it does).

look here

[realityhack]

Anyone used Time Machine yet?

I need to get an external hard disk first - any recommendations?

I'm happy with my value-for-money Western Digital 500GB drive.

To be sure about Firewire, open Utilities>System profiler and click Firewire on the left-hand side. (under hardware)

[Moscow Mule]

Had a look into this & found that firewire 400\800 connections are different, so it shouldn't be too tricky to work out if my imac has 800 or not (I don't think it does).

If it's a 24" it does. If it isn't, it doesn't.

[Spoiler]

My iMac is just over a year old, anyone know if this would support FireWire 800 or how I can check?

Had a look into this & found that firewire 400\800 connections are different, so it shouldn't be too tricky to work out if my imac has 800 or not (I don't think it does).

[sumo]

Started using Entourage also then it begun duplicating emails that were kept in the server, was caught into the old cycle of spending time to solve a problem... that's when I switched to Mail, simpler and never had a problem since.

Yep I had to switch to Thunderbird + Lightening. Entourage Calendar does handle DST to well.
Would have stuck to Mail + iCal but those damned Outlook users can't handle the meeting invites.

[daviejones]

I am looking at the 2TB NAS but they do not seem to add Mac OS as supported operating systems.....

[Spoiler]

As for an external HD, I got a 750MB Maxtor One Touch mainly for the FireWire interface.

Thanks for the tip. I was having a look at the Maxtor drives & noted that you can get them in either FireWire 400 or 800.

Would the speed difference matter much, if I were to use it mainly for time machine (i.e. backups)?

My iMac is just over a year old, anyone know if this would support FireWire 800 or how I can check?

[DaveB]

I couldn't get TM to see the shares on my NAS - I think this is due to be resolved but hasn't yet.

I've got a 500GB MyBook with a FW800 interface doing the job at the moment.

Found this that looks like it sorts the problem.

http://www.furrygoat.com/2007/11/11/...r-the-network/

[Moscow Mule]

waiting fr the upgrade pack to arrive before I can use it, still on Tiger atm.

Once I get I was planning on using my old PC as a backup host. Plenty of disk space on it once I clear out all the old apps I don't need on it anymore. Unless there is a reason I can't do this of course.

I couldn't get TM to see the shares on my NAS - I think this is due to be resolved but hasn't yet.

I've got a 500GB MyBook with a FW800 interface doing the job at the moment.

[DaveB]

As it said in a recent review I read; "It's harder not to use it". Luckily I haven't had to rely on TM yet but for me it's one of the best things about Leopard. Simple, easy to use and gets out of your way. You don't need to think about backing up.

As for an external HD, I got a 750MB Maxtor One Touch mainly for the FireWire interface.

waiting fr the upgrade pack to arrive before I can use it, still on Tiger atm.

Once I get I was planning on using my old PC as a backup host. Plenty of disk space on it once I clear out all the old apps I don't need on it anymore. Unless there is a reason I can't do this of course.

[Spoiler]

Anyone used Time Machine yet?

I need to get an external hard disk first - any recommendations?

[daviejones]

Started using Entourage also then it begun duplicating emails that were kept in the server, was caught into the old cycle of spending time to solve a problem... that's when I switched to Mail, simpler and never had a problem since.

My only issue is not being able to import .pst files...such a pain...