Meh, 160GB drives would be nice (as they are the biggest at the moment)

Yes, I want to buy one for my XP Laptop... they give you lots of space, just like a desktop...

Seems that now on desktops you get 250GB standard on a decent one...

Hmm, good luck with that... they are pricy arent they $200+??

Sorry, but I seem to be lost. What are we talking about with the 250GB thing and stuff?

A upgraded HDD for laptop (maxes out around 160GB models, maybe you can get more...)

and a 250GB standard on good desktop machines (sold by hp, etc)

And yes justin, I think they are normally $200+

Leopard is getting closer, there are some new videos on apple's site

Wow, really? I'll have to check them out. Yea, I believe it comes out in October?

i havent played on a mac since the old Apple IIe's

but, the time machine function sounds a lot like a new technology microsoft has been playing with on their Longhorn (server version of Vista) software.

they showed it in a loadfest i went to, and basically all back ups backed up each file individually

which allowed for three things,

a. the files could be updated individually if changed, instead of an entirely new backup being needed, which also led to easier incremental backups
b. the files could be restored individually and the backup could be further managed as it was controlled by a special type of XML file
c. they could all be compressed as one file, and changed without the entire file having to be decompressed.

i am not saying who came up with the technology first as i dont know, just where i saw it first
i am also not saying that this is how Apple's tech will work, but it sounds like the simplest most logical method of doing it.

Isn't it coming out this month or next?