After living through the power outages of late, I bought a UPS. [View all]
Our Macs seem much more tolerant of a hard, abrupt shutdown than I have observed with PCs. That said, work can lost. In my case, after being down for nearly a week, I spent several hours trying to reconstruct the last hour or so of the work that I lost.
I was at Costco yesterday and saw they had an 810 watt UPS for what i thought was a VERY reasonable $89. I bought it. I connected it to my MacPro. I stared everything up. Voila! It all worked.
There was a disk with it that was PC only. Turns out that our Macs are UPS-aware. Connect the UPS back to the Mac via a USB cable at they communicate. Nothing to do but set your shutdown preferences and that's that. Easy-Peasy. It took longer to unpack the UPS and find a place for it than to get it connected and running.
I love my Macs!
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