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JamesCizuz on 31 March 2009
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famousringo said:
JamesCizuz said:
StarrGazer said:
CaptainDJ said:
XP > Vista
MAC > Microsoft

All my Bro did was dual booted his MAC with XP, and now I want one for myself! :O

If you like that.....you'd love seeing what you can do on a Mac with "Target Disk" Mode!   Any machine can be easily backed up,  migrated to another machine, or recovered.......imagine never having to reload your OS even after a disk crash and you start to get the idea.  

 

 

Target Disk also fails 6% of the way, and the standard for programs which perform that action is supposed to be BELOW 0.05%.

 

Also, there is no reason to buy a mac. Buy a PC, and dual boot XP and OSX. You can do that you know? It's not hard anymore, ISOs now exist which do it all for you. It runs good, except for some conflicts with some hardware, you wouldn't have to worry 95% of s-hardware is supported. Special hardware meaning things like wireless cards, and sound cards. Everything else would be supported.

I don't think you're talking about the same Target Disk we are talking about.

Target Disk is a feature which allows you to start up a Mac as though it was an external Firewire drive. It really is amazingly useful. Hopefully Apple will figure out a way to implement this over USB since Firewire is being phased out. The new MacBooks don't have a Firewire port and don't offer Target Disk mode. It's one of the reasons I made sure to get a Mac Mini now while they're still packing a Firewire port.

I can't say I've noticed Macs failing to enter Target Disk mode 6% of the time or failing to transfer 6% of data in this mode, so I am curious, exactly what are you talking about?

Not 6% data loss, or 6% crash rate, 6% of the time it'll encounter "something" and stop. Which shouldn't happen at all. The "something" we don't know. It happens at every little problem, from sector errors and a like it can't be pinpointed. All thats known is 6% of the time, it'll just stop. Meaning if you transfer to 20 different drives, 1 out of the 20th time you'll encounter it just stopping.