[X4U] Backup strategies

Neil Lists at mac.com
Wed Sep 21 21:01:43 PDT 2005


on 9/20/05 11:37 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

>> The important thing to realize is that the MacOS system software is
>> installed for the Mac hardware on a particular model, and once you don't
>> have that model, it's useless.
> 
> This is not true. I can boot my iMac G5 off of my iBook G4 and vice versa.

Even if you couldn't boot from your back-up drive to a new computer, you
could still use migration assistant so that calling the cloned drive
"useless" might be going a little too far. 



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