[fryke]

I doubt that the "more usable" part of Time Machine's interface couldn't be done with graphics cards 3 or 4 years old. And the functionality clearly _must_ be there even without the fancy graphics. If they say: "You don't have the right graphics power in order to do backups", we _know_ that they've gone mad. :P

Btw.: The graphics are only used to _retrieve_ files in a funky way, the backing-up part should basically still be quite FX-less. So maybe it's just a matter of retrieving stuff by hand or using a third party utility which uses Time Machine's backups.