why? because its so easy that's why!
i am also a recent convert with a new mbp, and when i was in windoze i was a backup fanatic, i had to be to keep my freelance biz alive, as xp was crashing every time i turned around, so i got into the good habit of making image backups every few days or whenever i got some work done. so when i converted i spent a lot of time researching backup solutions before i migrated for good. at first i was worried. i did not understand the mac structure, nor how easy it is to backup. YOU CAN BOOT A USB DRIVE! no more looking for a bartPE disk and hoping i had loaded the recover software on that version of the bootable CD, or worrying about the lan being down and not being able to recover in time for deadline. now it's so simple, just get a cheapo usb hardrive and case and use Dejavue or whatever to create an exact bootable replica of your internal harddrive. if anything goes wrong, just reverse the backup process or just use the external drive until things get fixed. its such an elegant solution for a laptop user it's almost unfathomable if you are used to working with a pc.
few things to note: if you have a bootcamp, you still have to use PC software to create a backup image of the windows partition, and there by far the best thing to use is Acronis, some flavor: home, enterprise, whatever. it takes a bit for bit backup and puts it someplace safe. So now you have two backup jobs to worry about one for osx and one for intel stuff. it will be a great day if Acronis ever makes a UB version that does it all with one program, but the mac backup programs like dejavue or superduper work well too. good luck!
