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as much RAM as it will take.
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On a Mac, unless you run a high volume business, that is not necessary: 4GB is more than enough. Use the savings for other stuff. More than 4GB RAM would be (expensive) overkill that doesn't add anything useful.
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Get a second Hard Drive and partition it. Use half of the drive to mirror the main one (for back up reasons), and the other half for a scratch disc (nothing should be on it).
Get a good back up application ( i use Retrospect) and back up your DATA religiously.
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Cumbersome. With Apple's Time Machine you set it up once and 'forget' about it. Add another harddisk to mirror the first one. It's iron-clad. Afaik no Time Machine backup has ever been recorded to go sour.
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Remember, it is not a back-up if the back up is in the same physical area of your computer.
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True. So I keep a third harddisk in another location and physically exchange it once a month for one of the other two. So it's a remote mirror backup HD which' contents are maximally one month old. The other two backup HDs' contents are maximally a half hour old.
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I use CD's and keep my work ones at home, and my home ones at work.
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Using CDs or DVDs as backup media is a big mistake, Rocky!
Burned CDs and DVDs (as opposed to
pressed CDs and DVDs) deteriorate over time (osmosis) and will become unreadable in 5 years!
CDs and DVDs are useful only for
medium term storage. To be on the safe side I always write the date of burning on them and use them for 1 year max! They suck for long term storage!