Also this weekend, TheBoyfriend™ picked up the game Age of Empires III which is way more my kind of game than his, but that pretty much means that he got it so I would play it WITH him (and kick his ass at it, just sayin’). Of course, he got the PC version, and the Mac version was no where to be found. Not a big deal though since Leopard comes packaged with Boot Camp. I don’t actually have a Boot Camp partition set up. I run VMFusion for what little bit I need to jump into a Windows environment, and while not powerful enough for gaming, it has served my purposes well enough, PLUS if I set up a Boot Camp partition, I can share that installation of Windows between VMF and BC, so I can use it both on top of and separate from my OSX installation depending on what I’m needing it for.

I’m fairly proficient with computers and I’ve installed Windows on PCs more times than I can count, but I did something terribly, terribly, terribly wrong while trying to set up Boot Camp. I’m not sure how, but when I was done, not only had I erased my entire hard drive, but I’d completely wiped out all formatted partitions leaving me with nothing but useless space! Did I mention I had a couple hundred dollars worth of completed but not yet submitted freelance work on the hard drive I’d just erased? It was time to see if Time Machine lived up to it’s hype. I inserted the Leopard disc and partitioned and formatted my hard drive back to the way it originally was. Then, sure enough, it was as simple as clicking “Restore from backup,” selecting my Time Machine drive, and the date I wanted to restore to, and then heading off to watch TV for a couple of hours. Upon coming back, the Mac said it was ready for a reboot so I did, and from that point forward it was as if nothing had happened. I am a Time Machine believer!