Mac App Store vs Buying Direct

Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by drumdance on Friday June 01, 2012 @09:33PM (#4056658)

Having recently suffered a hard drive failure, I have a new appreciation for the idea of being able to download and re-install my applications from a single location.

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Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by jaaron on Friday June 01, 2012 @09:46PM (#4056672)

Why don't you have backups? I _expect_ my hard drive to fail.

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Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by drumdance on Friday June 01, 2012 @09:52PM (#4056689)

I do have backups, but it's still a PITA to copy everything over, especially applications.

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Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by chmars on Saturday June 02, 2012 @06:30AM (#4057737)

You have backups but apparently no feasible restores.

I have always an up-to-date image of my Macs created and updated each night with Carbon Copy Cloner (before that, I use SuperDuper!). In case of a problem with any of my Macs, I can simply boot from the image on another Mac and continue to work. If I cannot fix the problem, I copy the image to the respective Mac or a new Mac …

Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC): http://www.bombich.com/ SuperDuper!: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

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Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by TheGateKeeper on Friday June 01, 2012 @10:08PM (#4056730)

You can use TimeMachine to automatically back up everything. Or a more customized solution using Carbon Copy Cloner.

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Re:Mac App Store vs Buying Direct by weixiyen on Friday June 01, 2012 @09:35PM (#4056659)

Agreed, it's just a better user experience overall.

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