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I’m about to jump on a plane, but quickly re: Top 10 big things in Tiger (10.5):

(from live coverage at tuaw.com)

#2: Time Machine - “Everyone says ‘Back it up’, but people don’t” Only 26% of people back up their data, and they mostly do it manually. Only 4% back up automatically. All of this changes with Time Machine. Automatically back up your Mac. Backs up EVERYTHING. Restores EVERYTHING. You can buy a new HD and restore on to it. You can restore all data or pick and choose. Back up to local HD or remote server. “Whole new way of backing up and restoring.” (Windows has had something like this at least since ME) Steve does a demo. A file is missing from a folder. (Finder looks the same.) Click on Time Machine in the Dock. “Time is a dimension that receeds back into your desktop”. Windows in time are stacked behind each other. Looks damn sexy. Fly through time till you see a difference. (I assume he means in what files are there and what arent) Double click files to get previews, click to restore and it re-appears in the present (TRIPPY!) Works with applications other than Finder as well. Demo’s with AddressBook. “Search the past.” Demo’s with iPhoto, but something goes wrong. Steve elegantly force-quits.

Apple hasn’t done so well on the data protection front since… ever, so this could be significant… had the demo not crashed. Trash can
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