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WWDC 2006 Keynote Coverage

aswitcher said:
It is Macrumours afterall
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It's funny, though, as the Expo(s) and the WWDC have become less and less important in recent years concerning product updates.

Other than the switch to Intel being announced at WWDC last year, most big product updates have come in unexpected, mid-week PR events.

YET, even with this histroy of Apple not delivering at Expos and WWDC, we continually get weeks worth of build up, wish lists that are a dozen products long, and depressed forum posters who've been let down by raising their hopes too far.

I suppose some things will never change...

Though I will admit I was SURE we'd see that iPhone today! ;)
 
playaj82 said:
But it seems like the idea of Time Machine is "on-the-fly" updating/backing up, etc... Does it keep the last 5 versions I had of the file...that would be useful?

Also, if it is using the same drive to back things up, I would love to see how the file system and the index account for different versions scattered all across the disk, and imagine overwriting.....wow I'm getting freaked out and scared about a program that has been talked about for 30 minutes.

I just need to see how they actually implement it from the technical side of things before passing judgment.
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I don't think there will be overwriting problem, but again, there is physical rules even Jobs can't dis-obey, point is, time machine most probably will eat your hard drive space like crazzzzzzy.
 
Unspeaked said:
It didn't take long for all those dreamers who were "certain" the MacBook Pro and iMacs were going to get bumped to Core 2 Duos to start looking at MacWorld Paris as the "inevitable" date of their release...

::sigh::
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Well it will happen eventually, and with all the other manufacturers starting to use Core 2 apple has to keep up. Personally also now looking forward to MacWorld Paris, hope to see more demo of leopard. Glad to see they implimented network spotlight.. the more and more I look the more I see, they did indeed cover a lot, some good and most likely under apreciated, and some hyped, but worthless...
 
clevin said:
I don't think there will be overwriting problem, but again, there is physical rules even Jobs can't dis-obey, point is, time machine most probably will eat your hard drive space like crazzzzzzy.
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So that is why they made room for 2TB of drive space in the Mac Pros. You need 2GB for your OS, and 1TB for 3 months worth of Time Machine data
 
playaj82 said:
So that is why they made room for 2TB of drive space in the Mac Pros. You need 2GB for your OS, and 1TB for 3 months worth of Time Machine data
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HAHA, Yeah.
 
Unspeaked said:
It didn't take long for all those dreamers who were "certain" the MacBook Pro and iMacs were going to get bumped to Core 2 Duos to start looking at MacWorld Paris as the "inevitable" date of their release...

::sigh::
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Me being one of them.
Tuesday MBP Merom anyone?
 
playaj82 said:
So that is why they made room for 2TB of drive space in the Mac Pros. You need 2GB for your OS, and 1TB for 3 months worth of Time Machine data
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I hope TM has options to allow external storage of all current and historical data so drive failures are not an issue.
 
aswitcher said:
I hope TM has options to allow external storage of all current and historical data so drive failures are not an issue.
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I think that will be offered. Won't be "time machine" exactly anymore tho.
 
Time Machine backs up to either an external drive or a server, but no mention at release of backing up to same drive (really a useless operation if it did). It backs up at midnight, but sounds like perhaps it keeps a local record of changed files until then, unless it just relies on the Date Modified that the file system keeps track of anyways. The thing I'm wondering about is that it says that it only backs up the changes. Does that mean partial file backups for anything beyond the first time? Or is it just the files that changed are put as a duplicate backup for the new versions. Either way, it's intended to save space, so we'll see.

jW
 
Nice stuff, the voice over sounds pretty incredible. But besides spaces is there anything really great about this?
Now don't get me wrong I think it was a great preview but none of the features is really breathtaking. I hope they are holding back a lot.
 
skywalker said:
Time Machine backs up to either an external drive or a server

jW
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more likely to be locally backup.
cant imagine time machine would require internet connection to work.
 
Stella said:
I expected a lot more from this - more content!

Not even a "just one more thing" either.
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Yea, that one really let me down.

Hopefully "in the next few weeks" something big will come. Everything updates, or something.
 
clevin said:
more likely to be locally backup.
cant imagine time machine would require internet connection to work.
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Require? No. Allow? Yes. That was a direct quote, btw.

BTW, I was disappointed at the lack of a "One More Thing..™"

jW
 
clevin said:
more likely to be locally backup.
cant imagine time machine would require internet connection to work.
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I imagine it can most likely to back either to a local drive, external drive or network depending on settings and which is best for you
 
skywalker said:
Require? No. Allow? Yes. That was a direct quote, btw.

jW
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lol,
back up to an external hard drive.
require? no, allow? yes
back up your files
require? no, allow? yes
LOL, doesn't really help :)
 
nsjoker said:
wow. what a let down. not so sure it'll be that much better than vista :cool:
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:eek: Even OS 9 was better than Vista... okay well maybe not, but still. Microsoft keeps slashing features from Vista and pushing the release date. Byt the time it is actually realeased, it will probably be just another XP service pack. ;)
 
Butters said:
I imagine it can most likely to back either to a local drive, external drive or network depending on settings and which is best for you
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yeah, it probably give you several options, I just don't think its as promising as Jobs described, and really give user kinda a false secure feeling.
 
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