Today, a friend of Ven that is a fan of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates, read my blog and contest all I wrote about the simplicity of backuping and restoring with Mac.
It made me sad, because I’m not blogging to invite you to go to Mac way, albeit I think it’s a good way to envisage even if you are using Windows & Microsoft products everyday. It made me sad that people refuse the experience of the other, on their day-to-day use, as just a matter of fact.
And backup, true backup, with the ability to restore the whole OS, with any settings, each and every applications, with their own settings, all you personal data, and every service or downloaded software or bookmark, and email too. And to restore that in a matter of an hour or a couple of.
From my experience with Windows, where I reinstalled Windows every 6 months, to clean-up everything including the Windows Registry (kinda pain in the ass), I could tell you, this is awesome to be able to swap drive on a laptop an be up-and-running within an hour or two, using free tools or OS tools.
On Windows, it took me more than a full hard day (working from the day before at night, to the next night on Windows), and on Mac OS X it’s a matter of an hour or less than 2 hours, without being involved during the whole process. It’s valuable, especially if you think your time is, or more if you sell your work hourly.
That’s a point for Mac OS X, because I spent 20 hours per years doing that on Windows, something that may cost me more than $1000 each year in lost time, as a consultant, and something Mac OS X done for me on lunch time or during the night. It’s valuable.
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