10-17-2008, 03:49 PM
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All of the intel Macs are USB 2.0 bootable. That said, with my firewire backups, they are all bootable backups. I'm purchasing two Macbooks (base aluminum model) for my office. One of my backup drives has USB 2.0. The drive is large enough for me to partition and make bootable backups for each machine via USB 2.0. No muss, no fuss.
My reason for bootable backups is simple. If I ever need to restore the machine entirely, it's easier just to use SuperDuper to copy from the external backup drive back to the internal drive. It's faster than wiping the drive, reinstalling the OS, reinstalling software and restoring data.
Robert
All of the intel Macs are USB 2.0 bootable. That said, with my firewire backups, they are all bootable backups. I'm purchasing two Macbooks (base aluminum model) for my office. One of my backup drives has USB 2.0. The drive is large enough for me to partition and make bootable backups for each machine via USB 2.0. No muss, no fuss.
My reason for bootable backups is simple. If I ever need to restore the machine entirely, it's easier just to use SuperDuper to copy from the external backup drive back to the internal drive. It's faster than wiping the drive, reinstalling the OS, reinstalling software and restoring data.
Robert