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I told you I had no concept of days right?

Well I think it’s an “I can use this” thing.  The only downside I’ve found so far probably has more to do with my outdated hardware than anything else.

I’ve since upgraded the SIngle Processor 1.6Ghz G5 to a dual-processor 2.5Ghz G5.  The difference in performance is obviously grand, plus the dual 2.5 has 8 DIMM slots for memory instead of 4.

So now I’m up to 8G of Ram.

What I found most interesting is that to move from the old system to the new it was simply a matter of move the drives over.  I guess simplification and standardization of the hardware means that unlike windows/PC hosts, you never have to worry about whether or not the drivers are installed when you upgrade.

I also had a pretty good time with “TimeMachine”

It seems like it does a great “Grandfather-Father-Son” backup automatically, and without the user having to understand what a “GFS” backup is.  So you can restore to any hour in the last 24, day in the last month, or month in the last (however much disk-space you’ve got.)

What I liked is that nothing special was required to restore from disk.  Just the OSX boot CD.  Boot, select “restore from backup” and poof, or tah-dah, or whichever.  Windows7 has something fairly similar, but you have to build a recovery CD for it to work, probably because it has to store whatever raid-specific drivers you’re using.

All in all, a positive experience.  I may still go back to my Precision690 though…Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz processors and 8G of ram can run circles around the older G5 hardware.

I haven’t decided.