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Good Christmas Gift?
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I'm thinking of getting TechTool Pro 4 for my Mac friend for Christmas, would it be a good gift? She basically does a lot of video editing and Photoshop so I think it would be beneficial, but as a PC person (for now) I'm not really sure? If I'm going to be spending $100 bucks I want to make sure it's a good piece of software.
Recently I've been hearing that TechTool Pro 4 isn't that good and I should go with either: Norton Systemworks 8 or Diskwarrior 3?
(Last edited by malebolgia; Dec 14, 2003 at 06:44 PM.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: columbus, oh
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Huh? TTP4 is great, and Norton Systemworks doesn't even work with 10.3 yet. Best option...TTP4 
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"Another classic science-fiction show cancelled before its time" ~ Bender
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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TTP4 is buggy and doesn't do half as good a job as DW3.
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DW3: Best one, hands down, for fixing disk problems. The only one I'd use to do so. But it has no defragger, no hardware tests, no trash cache, etc. so it might be nice to supplement it with something else. Also, the version that is compatible with Panther is not out yet. Hopefully it will be soon.
TTP: Huge array of hardware tests. If you suspect something's wrong with your RAM, FireWire port, drive mechanism, etc. TTP can diagnose it. The disk repair function is very slow and gives up too easily when the going gets rough. It has a defragger, but it works at a glacial speed.
Norton: The disk repair function has hosed my hard disk and many other people's in the past. This is because it uses a dangerous method of fixing disks, to patch them instead of rebuilding a new, clean directory. Use with caution. Has a defragger, but it is integrated with the disk repair function, and won't let you defrag if it detects problems, even though the problems it detects may not necessarily actually exist. Has no hardware tests. Installs lots of startup items and kernel extensions which can make OS X unstable. Basically, I hate this utility. I hope it burns in hell. 
I would get DW3 first, as soon as the Panther version comes out. If you want the hardware tests, you can supplement DW3 with TTP. Defrag is sort of a lost cause on Mac OS X right now - fortunately, you don't really need it.
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