Re: considering moving to imac, convince me
- From: Sander Tekelenburg <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 03:28:01 +0200
In article <44c2b2d2$0$10051$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Copas <enter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
Do the current on the shelf imacs have intel processors?
Yes.
Will I be able to hookup existing Windows disks from an old
Windows pc and transfer files off those that I want to
keep? If so, by what method?
There is no such thing as "Windows disks" (nor "Mac disks"). What is
relevant is how those disks formatted, what file system they use. AFAIK
Mac OS X can read FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS, which are the common file
systems used by Windows (Mac OS X's preferred file system is HFS+). If
the disks are in a FireWire or USB enclosure, you should be able to hook
them up that way. The disk wil be mounted and you can copy the files.
Plug and play really. Alternatively, if the disks are in a Windows PC
and you know how to set up a network, you could copy their contents to
the Mac over smb file sharing.
Do imacs come with both an internal disk and an external
disk stock? I use pc's with several.
They have room for 1 single internal disk only. But you can hook up as
many external ones as you like through the FireWire and USB ports.
I can hardly believe 500MB of RAM could be sufficient for
much these days, anyone know of where these are sold with
standard RAM double that?
Just buy with the stock RAM and add more RAM yourself. Don't buy from
Apple unless you're happy spending twice you need to. Any halfway decent
store can sell you RAM and guarantee it will be correct for your
particular model Mac.
How much would I have to pay for partitioning software for
an imac?
First consider whether you have a good reason to partition at all. Most
people haven't.
And backup software?
Depends on what sort of backup you you want. Should it clone entire
disks; should it just copy particular parts of the disk; should it do
incremental backups; should it work over a network; should it preserve
any and all meta data; etc.
I like Deja Vu: <http://www.propagandaprod.com/>.
I have invested a lot of money on Windows PC's over the
years, and expect I would have to invest much more were I
to do the same things with an imac. Are software prices
for these still out of this world?
Define "these".
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/~tekelenb/>
Mac user: "Macs only have 40 viruses, tops!"
PC user: "SEE! Not even the virus writers support Macs!"
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