This is why I use a Mac!

[Fubar1977]

On my friends Macbook, a dead HD meant his system was out of action for 2 weeks while Apple repaired it. On my Windows system, Windows Backup reduces that to way less than 2 hours (Personal experience with my backed up system image on an external HDD.

Swings and round-abouts my friend. Had you planned accordingly with your PC, it would have been down only as long as your Macs. I've had plenty of issues with Macs, I use Windows because it's the OS I feel most at home with, and I have enough common sense to spot malware before it hits me, and a free Anti-Virus in place incase I slip up.

Really?
quite the opposite for me.
A dead HDD in my MBP was swapped out and my system was back EXACTLY as before the crash within 2 1/2 hours.
There is nothing on the Windows side that replicates the exact functionality and ease of use you get with Time Machine. Period.

A dead HDD on my windows systems? A day or two and even then it rarely works with the smoothness of restoring my Mac.
But hey, what do I know I was only a Windows user for 15 years

 

[wpotere]

Really?
quite the opposite for me.
A dead HDD in my MBP was swapped out and my system was back EXACTLY as before the crash within 2 1/2 hours.
There is nothing on the Windows side that replicates the exact functionality and ease of use you get with Time Machine. Period.

A dead HDD on my windows systems? A day or two and even then it rarely works with the smoothness of restoring my Mac.
But hey, what do I know I was only a Windows user for 15 years

I really love how this has turned into a backup bash fest.

I can do either equally as fast. It is just a computer, nothing more.

 

[Dr McKay]

I don't get this comparison. How did you get the HD fixed on the windows machine?

I'm just pointing out that if he had prepared and backed up his PC as well as he had with his Mac, he would have been up and running just as fast. When the proverbial turd hit the fan on me, I was up and running in no time, took me 2 hours to get a new hard dive (how long it took to get to the store and back) and 20 minutes to restore it to exactly how it was.

My friend who had a Mac, was not prepared, he hadnt backed up. And as a result he sent his machine off to Apple, who sent it back after 2 weeks. This isn't Apples fault, had he been prepared he would have been back up in no time. In the end stuff like this is the users problem, not the companies.

Really?
quite the opposite for me.
A dead HDD in my MBP was swapped out and my system was back EXACTLY as before the crash within 2 1/2 hours.
There is nothing on the Windows side that replicates the exact functionality and ease of use you get with Time Machine. Period.

A dead HDD on my windows systems? A day or two and even then it rarely works with the smoothness of restoring my Mac.
But hey, what do I know I was only a Windows user for 15 years

Did you have a system image backed up? That system image is your machine exactly how it was. I stuck in my windows disk after the new hard drive was in, restored from my backed up image on the boot repair menu, my computer was back to how it was exactly before. The restore itself took took about 20 minutes to complete. The functionality in Windows is there, and has been there for some time. You just have to know how to get to it. Just using the system for years doesn't mean you know all the ins and outs. I've only been a Windows user for 14 years myself and I'm now 21.

A lot of changes to more recent versions of Windows seem to mainly be putting User Friendly interfaces to these features that Windows has possessed for years. I'm not saying you're lying about your computers, it just felt to me like you were blaming Microsoft and Windows on your failing to backup properly.