That was a great post. I will point out that there is some science behind it. But I do agree there's a practicality issue in storing all out bread in brown sugar.

I have been a Firefox faithful from day 1. I know most of these, but the ease of this is awesome. Nice find!

And based on those parameters it's probably accurate. I said from the beginning Apple "assembles" quality machines. That survey doesn't say they last 2 or 3x longer, it says that they have longevity. I was never arguing that. Apples are marketed with "perceived value" A BMW or Mercedes have perceived value, yeah they…

look...your out to pick a fight. I'm not interested. Dontshootme and I were in a amiable discourse, you chimed in with your name calling and total BS, you win. Now go away. Every point you "claimed to make" I defeated...cause your the one with no clue. Or did you forget how you claim a monitor displays 5k if the…

Wow..this took an ugly turn. Dude osx is based on the linux kernel. who the fuck cares? It was a generic statement just as "IBM' based machines is also inaccurate yet everyone understands what you mean. A monitor can only produce what the graphics card can handle. Period. You can have a 5k monitor all day long but if…

You're absolutely correct, I was using generic terms out of pure laziness.

Also..resolution on any given monitor is directly relative to onboard/or separately installed graphics cards. So the whole point has got to be taken as a whole.....the hardware IS the machine and that's what we need to compare.

Short answer should have been simply YES

I agree..let's find out, but like I said they have to be generic open to the average joe comparisons. Another thing is you are focusing on the display, well my friend thats a monitor and has nothing to do with the computer itself. The monitor is irrelevant to the discussion. I suppose you could argue that the…

One last thing....even using your awesome deal your paying 2x what an equivalent Pc costs. Dell, Hp, etc...make...errrr assemble Computers that are of equal construction. quality. Yes there are "cheap pc's" cheap meaning crap rather than inexpensive. E-machines for instance are junk.

And I'm not in any way trying to be a know it all. I'm not some random Apple rant BS guy...in fact I pointed out from the beginning that Apple makes very good products. I'm also a 15 year veteran of the industry so I would hope I'm not talking out my ass. I will preface my answer with one caveat. You might find ONE…

Well, I'm not gonna do that. That's a bunch of work I don't have time for. If you believe an Apple pc/laptop is better built than a dell, hp, or any other mainstream machine. Then you go buy that. Anyone with a clue knows thats just not factually correct. Here's what I will do.....you pick any mainstream Mac...Pc or…

You are probably right. I was talking in generalities. I'm not even going down the road of what you can build these days. http://pcpartpicker.com/ is the ultimate one stop for that. I'm saying that off the shelf apples to apples there is no justification to paying 3x more.

Also...your guys in the field would need 1 flash drive...for any computer they encountered ONE, as long as the backup was created (and every solution here requires a backup to be made) the boot media isn't cumbersome.

I understand what you mean. I use Aomei 's partition tool it's great. Here's the thing, the tool that this post started with, and the option you mention are essentially creating a bootable partition somewhere and adding it to boot manager. You can do this with reflect as well, basically, you would create a partition…

My recommendation "Reflect" boot's from a cd/dvd/usb flash.....so yes it does exactly what your asking.

Sorry didn't see the question till now. The free version does not allow specific partitions, it's all or nothing. Your image is the entire drive inclusive of ALL partitions. You can "restore to" a different drive though. So if you have a backup and a drive fails, you can replace the hardware and restore, or if you…

Let me start off by saying I don't hate Apple or their products. Seriously, no pun intended here...but apples for apples an Apple costs 3x as much for the exact same spec machine. Apples are good quality, Apples have a good stable OS, They are just as prone to virus's as any other machine (That's a myth, the truth is…

That's a good strategy and it works. I make 2 new ones a month (beyond the original fresh install) One after patch Tuesday, and then another near the end of the month. I don't save them all, I keep 2 in rotation always deleting the oldest one. Before I create a new one I update everything (Flash, browser, malware…

I should also add...Reflect's image is compressed so the resulting image file (Img) is about 1/3 smaller than the imaged space itself. It's how quickly it does this that impresses me the most.