Well, I finally did it.

[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).

[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.

[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)

[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

[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]

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.

[fzbucks]

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