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Just get a time machine, put on your wifi and you don't have to think about it anymore, it will just backup every day in the background. You can easily restore

Just get a time machine, put on your wifi and you don't have to think about it anymore, it will just backup every day in the background. You can easily restore into another macbook using the builtin restore functionality. Apples solution to this is really good (still struggling to do it with the same ease with Windows without 3rd party software and Linux).

nine_k 7y ago
> restore into another macbook That's the problem. Instead of replacing a $200 SSD, you have to replace the entire $2000 machine.
- birdyrooster 7y ago
  Just preheat the board, get your hot air station, heat and remove those bad modules, clean the pads, add your solder and remount some new ones before cleaning up all that flux you were using. Then reinstall macOS and restore your backups. It might take a few tries before the solder balls up correctly under each pad. Use plenty of flux. Maybe give it a ultrasonic bath. Source: YouTube
  - nine_k 7y ago
    Ah yes, Apple is known for making things obvious, intuitive, easy, and user-friendly! /s Having an actual mini-sata or m.2 connector won't be too taxing. But it will increase tech support costs, and lower profits from sales of new replacement machines at least. Sad. (That's why my choice is Thinkpad T series, which is built like a tank: heavy, bulky, easy to replace any part, and hard to actually break; also, enough room for a good keyboard.)
    - spronkey 7y ago
      T (and X) series solders some stuff now too. Dell XPS15 and X1 Extreme are mostly maintainable.
      - gargravarr 7y ago
        Even the XPS 13s are more serviceable than their rival MBP 13"s. The RAM may be soldered on both but the XPS uses a standard NVMe SSD. It's saved me a few times already.
  - chaostheory 7y ago
    I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or serious
    - birdyrooster 7y ago
      Yes.
- briandear 7y ago
  If you have AppleCare you won’t have to pay for that replacement. After 3 years, you would, however buying a laptop with an inferior OS just in case one day a machine catastrophically fails is like riding a horse because you are afraid your car might fly off a bridge at some point in the future. I know I am anecdote-land, but I have never in 20 years of using Macs, had one catastrophically fail. Or fail at all for that matter.
  - hardlianotion 7y ago
    Fair enough, but I have had one in the last 7 years, and so has my sister. Hard drives in both cases.
    - SpelingBeeChamp 7y ago
      HDD or SSD?
redwall_hp 7y ago
Apple discontinued Time Capsule and their entire Airport line. The Time Machine software is still in MacOS, but de-emphasized and who knows if they'll retain it going forward.
- simonh 7y ago
  In what way has it been de-emphasized?
- sudhirj 7y ago
  Doesn’t it ask you whenever you plug in an empty hard disk if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup drive?
- Nextgrid 7y ago
  With how hard they're pushing their cloud and integrating it into pretty much everything I'm surprised there's still no official cloud backup solution for Mac.

nine_k 7y ago

> restore into another macbook That's the problem. Instead of replacing a $200 SSD, you have to replace the entire $2000 machine.

birdyrooster 7y ago
Just preheat the board, get your hot air station, heat and remove those bad modules, clean the pads, add your solder and remount some new ones before cleaning up all that flux you were using. Then reinstall macOS and restore your backups. It might take a few tries before the solder balls up correctly under each pad. Use plenty of flux. Maybe give it a ultrasonic bath. Source: YouTube
- nine_k 7y ago
  Ah yes, Apple is known for making things obvious, intuitive, easy, and user-friendly! /s Having an actual mini-sata or m.2 connector won't be too taxing. But it will increase tech support costs, and lower profits from sales of new replacement machines at least. Sad. (That's why my choice is Thinkpad T series, which is built like a tank: heavy, bulky, easy to replace any part, and hard to actually break; also, enough room for a good keyboard.)
  - spronkey 7y ago
    T (and X) series solders some stuff now too. Dell XPS15 and X1 Extreme are mostly maintainable.
    - gargravarr 7y ago
      Even the XPS 13s are more serviceable than their rival MBP 13"s. The RAM may be soldered on both but the XPS uses a standard NVMe SSD. It's saved me a few times already.
- chaostheory 7y ago
  I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or serious
  - birdyrooster 7y ago
    Yes.
briandear 7y ago
If you have AppleCare you won’t have to pay for that replacement. After 3 years, you would, however buying a laptop with an inferior OS just in case one day a machine catastrophically fails is like riding a horse because you are afraid your car might fly off a bridge at some point in the future. I know I am anecdote-land, but I have never in 20 years of using Macs, had one catastrophically fail. Or fail at all for that matter.
- hardlianotion 7y ago
  Fair enough, but I have had one in the last 7 years, and so has my sister. Hard drives in both cases.
  - SpelingBeeChamp 7y ago
    HDD or SSD?

redwall_hp 7y ago

Apple discontinued Time Capsule and their entire Airport line. The Time Machine software is still in MacOS, but de-emphasized and who knows if they'll retain it going forward.

simonh 7y ago
In what way has it been de-emphasized?
sudhirj 7y ago
Doesn’t it ask you whenever you plug in an empty hard disk if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup drive?
Nextgrid 7y ago
With how hard they're pushing their cloud and integrating it into pretty much everything I'm surprised there's still no official cloud backup solution for Mac.