I am getting a Mac :)
I have decided to get one of the new macs but am undecided as to which to get, i know some people on here use macs but what are the disadvantages of using a mac to browse the web, are any pages not viewable on a mac ? i have been looking at the new mac mini and was wondering what sort of graphics chip does it have ? is it the same as the full macs and if not does it make any difference to the speed of the software in particular the dvd making software ? i have a lot of avi files i would like to play on the mac is the mac able to read an ntfs formtted hard drive i have read that it can and it can't, any advice would be welcome from anyone who has made the transition from windows to mac,
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You shouldn't have problems reading NTFS disks on a Mac. Writing to them, however, can be a bit on the risky side as that's not fully supported. For sharing disks between Macs and Windows PCs, the normal method is to format them as FAT32, cross your fingers, and don't store anything solely on them long term.
There are going to be some poorly designed sites that requite IE on Windows. It is such a rare occurrence that I can't think of any though. Oh wait, yes I can, our work web-based task organization system, custom built by Russian hackers in Siberia, doesn't work properly.
The mini is a nice machine. I have an original G4 mini plugged into my TV. The downside is the video acceleration. As mentioned the current ones only have Intel's most basic onboard offerings. On the plus side they do come with Core2Duo chips now. They ought to be fast enough for video encoding, and playback shouldn't be an issue. However, if you were thinking of booting into Windows for some 3D gaming it will suck. Get an iMac, MBP or Tower instead, although the last two don't come cheap.
The Mac has no trouble in reading NTFS. It will recognise and mount NTFS volumes automatically. If you want to write than that is a bit more work. FUSE (the userland filesystem and not Phil's Speccy emulator) can be configured to write to NTFS - but use it at your own risk! It is possible to transfer data in the other direction though. I bought a copy of MacDrive, which lets Windows write to HFS+ format drives. Works great.
And Garageband is the best app I've ever used! :)
More use than anything Apple ever made.
Fnar fnar.
if it can't, on my PC in the power options i set the pc to shut down when i press the sleep button on my wireless keyboard, is there a similar option on a Mac ?
I don't know what the sleep shortcut key is though, I have a PowerBook G4 and I just close the lid!
What are the mac speccy emulators like?
FUSE[/FUSE] is excellent. It offers: loads of machines, including the Timex variants, and not forgetting the SE; accurate emulation and lots of features such as rzx support.
Oh, and Command+Option+Eject will make a Mac go to sleep.
(I was getting 'system too busy' errors and managed to post the same thing twice)
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