Finally my own time machine!!!
587050
Very nice set with lots of detail. Had fun building it and the overall build is solid except for the bumper which is slightly loose. A must have for all back to the future fans.
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Been waiting to write my own review, all I can say is AWESOME!  I spent less than $500 (two crucial mx100 512gb and one memory upgrade from 4gb to 8gb, about $70, I re-used the 4gb memory to updgrade my old MBP) and upgraded two old MBP (the early 2007 A1226 and the late 2009 A1286).  Both run now better than they ever did brand new.  I upgraded to the mx100 512gb ssd, the old 2007 fully maxed out only had a 160gb hard-drive.  Now I'm running the same software on the same OS on both laptops, with all of my files backed up using dropbox so literally my laptops are now just glorified workstations.  Slick, safe and fast!
4189139
Perfect for what I needed to keep my school and home life in order!!!
1809447
I was amazed at how well it did what I needed. I had some home recordings of a person that is no longer with us, and really wanted to save it and listen to it again. This converter did just that! Now I have the MP3 files of all the recordings, which I backed up to the Cloud, so it won't be lost, and is accessible from anywhere in the world! Thank you! Now if only I could find the same thing for video from different video cassettes!
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This is actually super easy to reformat for Mac.  Hook it up and go into Disc Utility and under "view" menu, make sure you choose "show all devices" not "show all volumes."  Select the non-indented icon for this device, hit "Erase" and a few minutes later, you are done - Time Machine is ready to go.  I am replacing one from a few years ago that started faltering recently, so don't plan on spending $90 and having it last for 5 years, you may have to replace it annually, which i agree is wasteful and annoying, but don't risk your data by trying to make it last beyond it's lifespan...
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Really easy to backup time machine to this ssd! I didn't install the software that lets you password protect it because someone mentioned that it's really hard to uninstall, but it's an option if you need to protect your information.
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I have been using Macs for about 5 years now between school and work.  My primary machine has always been a PC.  Being a graphic designer, Macs are pretty much the industry standard.  That is one of many reasons I bought this iMac.

I must say, I love this computer.  It took me less than 15 minutes from opening the box, unpacking the computer, plugging it in, starting it, and set up.  And 10 minutes of that was taking it out of the box, taking the protective wraps off of things, etc.

The initial setup was a breeze.  It automatically recognized the keyboard and mouse (both Bluetooth), easily connected to my network (after I typed in the password), and bam, we were up and running.  Since I never had a Mac before, I didn't have a backup that would put all my files on the computer, but I keep all of my files on an external hard drive anyways.

There have been a few bumps in getting used to doing certain things on the Mac compared to the PC.  However, Apple Care is very helpful and helped me through alot of issues.  The main thing was getting Time Machine working like I want.  Still don't have it backing up my external hard drive, but that is because it is a MS DOS format, which is a format it doesn't recognize.  Other than that, Time Machine is doing backups on its own drive.  Also, for PC users, Time Machine is NOT System Restore.  It is a file recovery program only.  So if you delete a file, you can open Time Machine, find the file, and restore it.

Once you take the time to learn how certain things work compared to PC's, you will figure out that there are alot of things that are just much easier on the Mac.  Granted, I plan to use both Mac and PC for a while, but so far, I haven't had to turn on my PC in several days (and I have only had the iMac for about 10 days).

Overall, it is a great machine.  Feels like it is built very solid, runs fast, starts up fast, looks great in my room, the keyboard and mouse (Bluetooth) never skips a beat, the Magic Mouse was not difficult at all to start using, and overall it is great.  Probably will always stick to Mac now.  :D
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Tossed in a used CCTV hard drive we had & plugged it into our mac.  It works just like a flash drive, but then Time Machine popped up and asked if we wanted to use it as an automatic back-up (said yes of course!)...

VERY HAPPY for the price!  SOOOO  much better than trying to use our pile of flash drives.

When it's finished backing up I'm going to put in our old hard drive form our last mac (that crashed) and see if I can pull anything from it.

:D  AWESOME!
4563917
Bought this about 1.5 years ago and it's been great. Bought another 2TB drive this year as well. Damn time machine ate up my drive space on the 1TB and my wife takes a ton of high resolution photos as well.
1788303
I'm so happy that I found this. I had a couple hundred floppy disks with pictures of my boys from 2002-3. They would have been lost forever without this little machine. It worked great right out of the box. I plugged it in to the side of my HP monitor and enjoyed hours of memories.
1334608
Sweeeeet !! What a trip down memory lane....
Thanks for helping me find this
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I have been putting off the task that I have been dreading - scanning my old photos from B.D. (before digital!).  I have albums and boxes of pictures that I would like to have saved and backed up to an external hard drive.  This my friends, provides a great solution!  I can sit at the table and scan a box of photos (up to 4x6 size and down to about 1.5"x 2.5" or the wallet size school pictures) while watching TV or listening to music.  They scan right to an SD card and you can also plug into your laptop to make sure the image is saved the way you want.  I love the portability of this - over Easter I took it over to my parents house and scanned my old photos from growing up.  Luckily, Mom had taken all our pictures out of the albums and had them separated by kid.  I was able to scan copies of brother's and my grade school/high school pictures and ones growing up.  Hopefully my sis-in law will thank me for taking the time to do this for her, as I can just put them on a flash drive for her!  I have plans to scrapbook my husband's (need to wrangle his baby pics from my mother-in-law)and my childhood pics, but I want a backup of the original pictures stored electronically.  These pics are not a great resolution to begin with (the 70's photos were not high in megapixels!), but to have some sort of copy that I can catalog electronically is priceless to me, and I want to be able to pass these down to our kids and my brother's kids.

The directions say to put the pictures into the plastic sleeve, but I have found they work fine without it.  If I had a really tattered picture, I would probably do it.  At that point I would probably opt to scan it on my main scanner so it is not passing through a scan, but rather sitting on top of a glass scanner.  This product has saved me hours and hours of scannng one by one on my main scanner.  By being able to pass though, I don't have to stop and reset each picture.  I will have to go back and scan the ones larger than 5x7, but most of what we had in the albums were 4x6 or smaller.  I am very happy I purchased this - especially on a gold box deal!!
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I knew none of this three weeks ago and had never opened a computer in my life.  The following is what I learned from numerous blogs and YouTube videos; hopefully this will save others some time.  After one week, so far so good.

Use SuperDuper! software (free online, everyone recommends it) to CLONE your old hard drive first.  Mac's Time Machine (or a similar backup program) just backs up your FILES so you would also have to reinstall all your operating software without a clone, which takes much longer.  You can actually boot and run your computer from a cloned drive (after you press the start button, hold down the alt/option key until it asks you to select the drive from which to boot), which would be critical if your hard drive ever crashed.  I still use Time Machine for day-to-day backups to a THIRD hard drive, which is not overkill at all if you think about the nightmare of losing all your files and photos.

First clone your hard drive to an external drive using SuperDuper! (very easy; takes 4.5 hrs for 250GB), then clone it back (press the alt/option key during startup to select the cloned drive) once you've installed the new hard drive.  If you have the right hookup you could clone right to the new hard drive.  I bought a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex (USB 2.0) as my new hard drive clone, though I could not get it to be simultaneously Mac and PC.  This is probably because I'm cloning the drive rather than just copying files.  I also upgraded the RAM to 4GB (with two, 2GB cards), which is the maximum RAM for this computer.  Always upgrade both cards with the same brand at the same time; they're sold in sets.  I bought Crucial (brand) cards, which seemed to be the most highly rated.  Go to Crucial.com and there's a guide to buying the right cards.  Well worth the $40 if you simultaneously run multiple applications.

There are YouTube videos on the hard drive installation, RAM upgrade, and SuperDuper! cloning, so go for it.  Just make sure to find a video for your computer as there are subtle differences in installation among types.
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It has done everything I have wanted it to do. Nice to have it use the Time Machine ability on the Mac to select specific time periods in which I want to retrieve a document from.
2097723
This super cool little book is full of the coolest vintage "guy stuff"! Man, I wish life was still that GONE! This book will have any normal,red-blooded hipster lookin' for a time machine so he can get his but back to the crazy days of cocktails and girl chasin'!  Oh lord how the  2000's seem like they are gonna be LAME compared to those wild days.  Please get me out of here and back to the NORMAL, techno music free  past...PLEASE!
3049237
Put this on my 2009 iMac w a dying HD, downloaded El Capitan OS onto it and then used Migration Assistant (in Utilities) to move things over. There were a few bad moments as the old HD acted up but I got it done in time. Yes, yes, would've been easier if I'd have been backing up w Time Machine like I should've... But now it runs far, far faster than even new, best $230 I ever spent on tech stuff!
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Besides the fact that it took 10 days for it to arrive, I am so very excited about filling this journal out. I skimmed through the questions and I cant wait !!! Definitely will be cool to see how my answers have changed through out the years! I ordered one for my sister too !!!