My Macbook Pro's hard drive imploded. Applecare was nice enough to send me a new one. I pop in the new drive, boot to the restore DVD, point it to my most recent Time Machine backup, and wait 6 hours.

Your best bet is probably to get an external enclosure for the SSD. Put it in it, clone to it with Carbon Copy Cloner or something similar, and then swap the SSD into place. This should ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...