I am a Mac...

We have all heard the ads from Apple. I really like them, I think they are entertaining. But in my opinion, as more and more solutions move to the cloud, I think it matters less and less. Which is a good thing. People choosing what they like better, as long as they have the same access to services. It's a good step forward in the IT industry. So I am a Mac, don't get me wrong I have PCs as well. But the reason for this post is yesterday I did something that in that past was a real pain, but yesterday the process was the way it should be, simple. So what did I do? Here's the story:

Yesterday afternoon I was working on my desktop computer, a Mac Pro, running OS X 10.6. I received a pop up saying my System disk was almost full (consider that the C:\ in the PC world). My first thought, was hmm ok, I will start deleting files. Logical right, but then I remembered I had a new 1TB drive just sitting around in case I had a disk failure. So instead of me giving up files from my primary storage, I thought wouldn't it be nice to upgrade my primary disk from the 300GB I am using to this 1TB disk. But then years of IT experience hit me at what a pain that upgrade would be...I guess that also motivated me because I went for it. The main reason for this post is to share that, very pleasant experience :)
So I opened that new drive, I opened the case of the Mac Pro (slide one lever, remove the case door) I pulled out an empty drive sled. Then while I attached the drive to the four built in screws on the sled I powered down the Mac (yes it was up and running until then :) ).
When the Mac shut down I was done attaching the drive to the sled. I slid the sled/drive back in, closed the case and booted up.
Upon boot the Mac OS saw the drive and offered to format it form me. Nice!
With the drive formatted, I ran a great little app called SuperDuper. Told it to copy the system drive to the newly formatted disk. Then I went on with my evening. As I had dinner I could hear the Mac reboot. So after dinner I went in, logged in and the software had made an exact duplicate of my system drive onto the new 1TB drive, then rebooted making the new drive my boot disk. Nice! My upgrade was done. To verify I unmounted the old system disk ran a few apps and everything worked perfectly. I reformattted my old system disk and am going to use it as a temp storage area.
That's it. Done. Went from 300GB to 1TB on they system disk. No pain, no challenges just computers working the way they should. Simply!
If you have ever done this type of primary storage upgrade in the past, you should be in awe right now :).
Does this make Mac's better than PC's? Nope. But it does show that computers are making progress in getting to where they should be, simple and not adding more heartburn to us humans.

I love when technology works the way us humans expect!