Re: System Drive Clone

Yes, you can absolutely do this. I've heard very good things about Carbon Copy Cloner.

I suppose the major issue is that you end up copying over your bad settings along with the good. If you have a rock-solid, stable system, it should work out fine. However, you should try and obtain replacement discs for your damaged ones ASAP.

There's no telling what kind of foibles September's Snow Leopard will bring in regards to Final Cut Studio. Or, FCS 3 if that comes out on the heels of SL.

So far, all we've seen of Quicktime X mostly has to do with i-apps, but the announcement of GPU-based h.264 decoding (+encoding?) makes me think there's big changes under the hood waiting for the next round of 64-bit pro apps to take advantage of.

September's going to be interesting - get ready!