[X4U] Leopard Features

[Kansas Territory]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 9:37 PM, Jim Scott wrote:

>
> An external hard drive also was connected to the demo iMac on-stage  
> during the keynote when the functions of Time Machine were being  
> shown. Based on what I've seen so far, I suspect the proper  
> functioning of Time Machine will require an always-on connection to  
> an external hard drive or a network server. A less-secure  
> alternative offered might be another partition on the installed  
> hard drive. But I suspect Apple's advice will be to not do that in  
> case that hard drive crashes. The whole point of Time Machine is to  
> protect the vast amount of users who never back up from themselves,  
> and to make retrieval of data as easy as possible.

I'm looking forward to this Time Machine..   just wondering about  
Hard drive space required ?

for instance I operate on a 80GB drive, which is about full..
So what kind of hard drive would I need to have for use with Time  
Machine to backup to ?

I guess they'll have some option as to "how far back in time" does  
time machine keep up with ?


Kansast