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@westendRIOT: Time Machine is a great option to doing incremental backups however:

1. If your main hard drive goes down, you can't immediately start up from the backup that Time Machine creates. You will need to replace your main hard drive, then restore from Time Machine.

2. In some cases, when you boot up from the new hard drive just restored from Time Machine, some of your applications will have forgotten all the serial numbers.

3. Restoring from Time Machine can take hours especially if running from Time Capsule.

The benefits of cloning are:

1. Speed. You are basically up and running once you reboot your computer from the external drive that has your clone. In most homes, the computer is the hub of all your media and communication (music, pictures, movies and email), having it down for an extended period isn't an option.

2. If you have CC or SD schedule a daily clone of your computer you can be up and running with minimal data loss.

3. It wont break any of the serial numbers in your applications.

4. If you are extremely paranoid individual, you can take an exact clone of your computer with you every day just in case someone breaks into your place and steals your computer or theres a fire in your home.

Agree with jdechko.

Using Disk Utility is all well and good but when your week gets really busy sometimes you'll forget to do a clone of your computer. And we all agree that having a backup is always a good practice. CC and SD have scheduling features that make weekly or even daily backups for you AND in a fraction of the time it takes to do a full clone using Disk Utility.

Agree with Viscumin and Jasmine.

iShred? Seriously? Couldn't they have come up with a better name than that?

Agree with charmac. Increasingly a lot of our day to day errands, correspondence, bills and memories are digital. Losing a months worth would be MORE than inconvenient to say the least.

I backup using Time Machine and have an external that I use to make a clone of my computer using Super Duper. I take the external to work just like charmac.

With the prices of hard drives becoming so affordable, backing up shouldn't be just an option. It's become a necessity.

Agreed hnhkt and Trish1980.

With some computers costing close to $3K having kids just "break stuff anyway" is not really an option for me. I usually put all of my electronics stuff away from the reach of my 4 year old daughter. But even when it is within her reach, she knows not to touch it. When I allow my daughter to use my computer to play her educational games, I am always nearby to supervise.

Gotta agree with ElevatorHappyFun. Needs some cable management. No matter how cool the hack is, if they don't finish it off with wire management, it feels half done.

There are two reasons why this card is problematic. Firstly, as lew! mentioned above, Google logo is being used without permission. There's a TM is superscript next to the logo for a reason. Secondly, if this card is "easily be adapted for nearly any profession or endeavor" then it defeats the point of a business card, which is differentiation from a competitor or another business altogether. A business card needs to stand out. If this printer's business card looks like his competitor's card or the pizza take out down the street, then what's the point.

It's beautiful I have to admit. But no strap? If you're driving to work that's no problem. But if you are using this to commute by subway or if you doing some traveling, it might be a little difficult.

There are a lot of reasons why this is wrong even for the stated purpose of using it as a car audio or GPS. The reason why most window mounted GPS units are small are so that it doesn't obstruct the drivers view. And most car audio/video solutions are a console mounted double DIN that (again) don't obstruct the drivers view. Also can you imagine trying to look for music tracks on your computer while driving? It's so dangerous. I doubt the person this DIYer crashes into will be happy about this "cheaper alternative." But lets just say safety isn't an issue: 1) it's a waste of energy to run a laptop just to play music or use a GPS 2) it looks stupid. You'll have a tray velcroed to your dashboard.

I thought this site was about beautiful, intelligent and efficient technology. This idea is none of those things.