I'm using the 120GB IBM Deskstar from my AMD machine right now.
Yes, natively. OSX Panther reads NTFS without problem. When I moved my 120GB drive from my AMD machine to the mac, I was able to copy all my old files before formatting it. I don't think that it can write to NTFS though.
Everything except items which require specific things such as the BIOS in a graphics card (Yes, these CAN be flashed, but ALL mac cards have dual-head ADC, Apple Display Connecter and DVI.. but if you're not using those, flashing is fine
) and processors etc.Yes, think of macs as OEM computers, they simply come with OSX installed. You are free to wipe it and install a PPC based Linux or BSD distro, or even BeOS if you feel like it.
Major updates used to be annually, however that is slowing down with the release of OSX 10.4
Yes, coincidentally I was running Windows XP just this morning.
Why not? I frequently use mine for gaming, and with new games seemingly being announced on a weekly basis almost, the mac gaming scene is certainly picking up pace.
Have a read of the file attached to this post.
Geffy said:
213:~ davidkerry$ cd /
213:/ davidkerry$ ls -pl
total 19865
drwxrwxr-x 92 root admin 3128 11 Jun 11:44 Applications/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 51712 9 Jun 23:02 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 248450 6 Jun 01:40 Desktop DF
drwxrwxr-x 13 root admin 442 12 Apr 12:22 Developer/
drwxrwxr-x 43 root admin 1462 9 Jun 22:58 Library/
drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 14 Jun 00:16 Network/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 2 Jun 20:19 System/
drwxrwxr-t 6 root admin 204 18 Jan 23:10 Users/
drwxrwxrwt 6 root admin 204 13 Jun 14:22 Volumes/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 18 Jan 20:18 automount/
drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1190 26 May 22:54 bin/
drwxrwxr-t 3 root admin 102 22 May 15:21 cores/
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 9 Jun 23:03 dev/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 18 Jan 20:14 etc -> private/etc
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 9 9 Jun 23:03 mach -> /mach.sym
-r--r--r-- 1 root admin 569532 9 Jun 23:03 mach.sym
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3858620 13 May 00:58 mach_kernel
drwxr-xr-x 3 root admin 102 11 Apr 19:24 opt/
-rw-r--r-- 1 davidker admin 5413616 13 Jun 14:12 out.mp3
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 9 Jun 23:03 private/
drwxr-xr-x 61 root wheel 2074 9 Jun 23:00 sbin/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 18 Jan 20:14 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 davidker davidker 374 31 May 10:57 usr/
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 11 18 Jan 20:14 var -> private/var
213:/ davidkerry$
Quicktime supports mpeg etc, and then you can add codecs to it to make it play DivX and XviD and other compressed formats (same as you would install DivX for windows etc.) as for WMV players like Windows Media or VideoLAN are required to play that.
Windows Media Player
OSX Ships with an in-built FireWall, so there's no need for firewall apps (although I'm guessing there are some available) and there are available AV apps, lacking time atm so I'll find names/examples later.
I was doing everything I normally did on my Windows machine on the mac 30 minutes after it arrived (that includes getting it out the box and setting everything up
) OSX is designed with ease of use in mind.The fact that it works, the stability argument doesn't work any more, Windows XP is amazing, I think it's something Microsoft have done right for once, it's solid as a rock. At the end of the day, it's a preference, exactly as some people like red more than green... but you'll never know if you'll like OSX more if you never try it
Gotta run to work, will answer this and Geffy's question later (Will be home ~9:30pm)
All macs ship wtih 56k modems (unless you specifically ask not to have one) and of course ethernet (either 10/100, or Gigabit on newer machines) and USB, so most modems will work unless they use n outdated method of connection.
No, there's not even a CD-Key.
Just as with Microsoft, Apple has a knowledge base absolutely crammed with information, hints and more. Not to mention the help center which is again full of information.
ICQ: Yes
Hope that helps
SPeedY_B said:Yes, perfectly true. But would you rather have thousands of average apps, or one hundred really good ones?
There is some amazing software for windows, but let's face it there's a LOT of crap too, most large developers see the potential of the macintosh and develop applications for it, some even primarily (Adobe, Macromedia, even Microsoft) however due to the Windows market being larger (and therefore meaning more profit) the majority of companies will develop for that platform.
This does in no way mean that software for the mac does not exist for job-X, software is also not hard to find, with sites like versiontracker and macupdate all you need to do is search.
There are varying factors, the main on is money, people don't realise that Mac's last a LONG time and that the MHz mean nothing, I know someone who until a few weeks ago was running a 500MHz G4 (He gave into temptation and treated himself to a dual 2.0 G5 though
Most people aren't educated that PPC even exists, and therefore think that a 3.0GHz P4 is faster than a 2.5GHz G5 which isn't the case, so they think that the mac isn't worth the money being asked for.
The hardware used is generally of much higher quality, apple return millions of hard-drives back to Hitachi every year (cant remember exact figure but if i find it i'l post it) they go through intense testing to make sure they aren't going to fail after the Mac has been sold. Alot more thought goes into the design process regarding cooling, system performance etc. Im sure some of you have bought a PC and when you want to look at the guts of it, its full of wires, cable-ties and dust.sto110 said:
SPeedY_B said:Panther takes around 2.0GB, I think my iBook had about 3GB used when it arrived, can't really remember though
File info can be displayed via right click->Get Info, or click a file then hit Command+I, it brings up the following dialog:
thekore said:it wasnt as much as that when i got my iBook X
