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Thinking of Getting a new (to me) Desktop, Your Thoughts?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gary Brackins" data-source="post: 1716675" data-attributes="member: 226905"><p>Nick,</p><p></p><p>the first crash was a fusion drive failure, second was a software conflict/issue not identified by Apple Store tech. I use 3 EHD's for cloning and 3 EHD's for Time Machine. I use Mac Guru to backup my project files to iCloud and up until yesterday used Carbonite. </p><p></p><p>I was told by Apple not to use any of my clones or TM backups since it was software conflict/issue and could reintroduce it into my computer. That's handled now hopefully as I restored my computer manually and before I started using it I made a CCC of it which is now tucked away in a safe dry place and will not be reused. Should it crash again, I should be able to clone back from this EHD and pull project files down out of the cloud.</p><p></p><p>I was not able to boot from any of my clones with the latest crash so I figure if I have another computer as a backup I may have to rebuilt one setup, but I have another computer to work with. Hard to get new home designs out the door without a computer. Also it would allow my wife to become familiar with Mac's so I can toss out our last functioning windows machine.</p><p></p><p>The deal on the Mac Pro looks good, but I don't know enough about it so I'm reaching out to knowledgeable folks such as yourself to let me know your thoughts on the Mac Pro vs iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gary Brackins, post: 1716675, member: 226905"] Nick, the first crash was a fusion drive failure, second was a software conflict/issue not identified by Apple Store tech. I use 3 EHD's for cloning and 3 EHD's for Time Machine. I use Mac Guru to backup my project files to iCloud and up until yesterday used Carbonite. I was told by Apple not to use any of my clones or TM backups since it was software conflict/issue and could reintroduce it into my computer. That's handled now hopefully as I restored my computer manually and before I started using it I made a CCC of it which is now tucked away in a safe dry place and will not be reused. Should it crash again, I should be able to clone back from this EHD and pull project files down out of the cloud. I was not able to boot from any of my clones with the latest crash so I figure if I have another computer as a backup I may have to rebuilt one setup, but I have another computer to work with. Hard to get new home designs out the door without a computer. Also it would allow my wife to become familiar with Mac's so I can toss out our last functioning windows machine. The deal on the Mac Pro looks good, but I don't know enough about it so I'm reaching out to knowledgeable folks such as yourself to let me know your thoughts on the Mac Pro vs iMac. [/QUOTE]
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