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Originally Posted by Simon
Let's see... Photoshop 7.0 from 2002 probably won't work. Used to be easy to just buy Photoshop but now it seems like it's being packaged with a variety of other Adobe apps I've never used. I use Photoshop and ImageReady (a lot). I understand ImageReady is gone now, so what's the closest combo to those two without a lot of the other fluff?
Oh, and how about the new backup system, Time Machine? Would it be smart to get a new hard drive dedicated to use only by Time Machine? From what I read it seems the larger a hard drive it has to backup onto, the further back in time it can go. So, is there some multiple of the size of the notebook's hard drive that's needed to really make Time Machine useful?
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I'm using Photoshop CS3. Yeas ImageReady is gone, I miss it, but Photoshop CS3 does everything I need except open and edit animated GIFS. (it does allow you to make animated GIFS, just doesn't allow you to open existing ones and see all the frames.) Photoshop CS4 is the current version but I haven't used it. I believe upgrades from Version 7 are still $180.
I'm running Time Machine on a few USB hard drives (270 gig & 500 gig) connected to an Airport Extreme. I'm using it to backup 5 Mac laptops (2 are old PowerPC laptops) and one Mac mini. I've learned a few tricks like starting the initial backup through the network, stopping it right away, and then connecting the drive directly to the Mac through the drive's FireWire port and finishing the initial backup in under an hour rather then having the initial backup take over a day through the network. Then putting the drive back on the network and forgetting about it as it does it thing through the air. This setup allows us to go back a few months. I also one in awhile copy the disk images off of the Time Machine drives to a 1TB drive that I keep at a friend's house.