![]() ![]() Once I figured this out (Shirtpocket, usually a great company, never notified us) I had to turn off the boot volume backups so that things would not crash, causing the external data volume backup to crash. One contained the backup of my system volume and the other contained the backup of my external (photography) files volume.Īfter updating the operating system, my SD backups started failing and my computer was crashing in the middle of the night while trying to do the backups. In my case, I had SuperDuper! doing automated daily backups to two volumes. That is correct, but for those of us who set up our primary automated backups via SuperDuper! the outcome has been quite messy, and the solutions are (still) not great. ![]() I do expect Apple to fix this bug (although it’s been several months since it was reported to them) because Apple supposedly uses this utility in-house for pre-loading the factory software image, but who knows when they’ll decide to release a working version for the rest of us. The Apple utility currently has a bug preventing it from working on M1 Macs, so CCC can’t clone the system volume on one. The only problem there is if you have an M1 Mac. According to Mike Bombich, Apple bundles an APFS replication utility which will properly clone the system volume on Intel Macs, and the latest versions of CCC use it. That might be good enough until SD gets updated. The result will be a bootable system, but without the latest system software updates (unless you periodically boot from it and install macOS updates from there). Lower than 10GB means problems to the OS, caching, etc.Īs I understand it, you should still be able to install Big Sur to an external device and then use SuperDuper! to clone your data volume to that device’s data volume. friend’s daughter at school, saving files, didn’t know it was past the cap…till too late- Apple needs an integral storage watchdog that Notifies 20% remaining, 10% and finally stop the user from storing locally until space is made. And I’ve had some experience with Apple computers and the user writing more than the drive can store (e.g. With a portable and depending on Snapshots can take the user’s space up. Many don’t even understand Time Machine and the need to have an external (even setting iCal to remind to connect the USB drive and do a backup). Most do not have home servers, and Apple’s targeted users spend money to save to the cloud (photos, Music, …). Storage is exponential in OS progression, updates (security and OS), and unforseen increases with multiple users and syncing devices (iphone backups, …). Moving to Big Sur, and having a mac that is more than 5 years old, might quantify beyond just figuring out what apps need updating (and costs). said, Apple really needs a feature/questioneer/guide for approximating your use, storage and capacity. Seeing that Apple lacks the integrated warning/limit controls that Windows has, and searching for what is taking up space can be frustrating for casual mac user, I typically use OmniDiskSweeper to look at what is taking up space. Maybe we should prepare such a buyer’s guide if Apple doesn’t. how many songs/movies can you expect to store in different capacities.) Similar to how they used to advertise iPod capacities. Extra storage to store media collections.Larger configuration(s) for content creation, more multitasking.Minimal configuration for web browsing, streaming, office applications, and only light multitasking (not running multiple large apps at once).The storage is not a problem for me because it connects to my home’s server (which has 2TB of storage) for accessing my media collections.Īlthough I wouldn’t want this configuration on my main/only computer, I also wouldn’t want to spend more for a computer used in this capacity.Īpple probably should publish something like a buyer’s guide with recommendations for how much RAM/storage/CPU is appropriate for different use-cases. ![]() For what I use it for (general web surfing and remotely logging into my other computers around the house), it works fine. My current personal laptop (a 2011 MacBook Air) has only 4GB RAM and 128 GB storage. My point is simply that least-cost options from all brands are going to be stripped-down, and the PC world has examples that are far more useless than anything Apple sells. I realize that Apple doesn’t sell anything at the $200 price point. And the storage is eMMC - effectively a soldered-down SD card. For example, the least expensive Windows 10 PC on WalMart’s web site is a $200 Gateway GWTC116-1, which only includes 4GB RAM and 64 GB storage. Without trying to argue the merits of Apple’s decision, here are some possibly interesting data points:Ĭheap PCs also ship with configurations I would consider below the point of being useless. ![]()
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