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  • 17-11-2007 10:07pm
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    MadSambuka
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    Hey! Just a quick question, want to buy a laptop and have my eye on the macbooks, if i buy one, will it be hard to transfer data from an apple via a usb to a normal windows pc beacuse of different formatting and stuff?
    Or would it just make my life easier to get one that uses windows?

    Are macbooks really worth their pricetag?


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    Passenger
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    No, it wouldn't be hard at all, in fact I do it all the time.


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    Creamy Goodness
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    the only thing you might have difficulty is with NTFS drives.

    os x supports NTFS for reading but not writing to.

    i'm sure there's a 3rd party driver you can get to allow writing to NTFS on UNIX based o/s's but it's name eludes me atm.

    fat32 works fine though.


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    AlmightyCushion
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    Cremo wrote: »
    fat32 works fine though.

    Unless you want to store files over 4GBs.


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    MadSambuka
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭MadSambuka


    nope, its basically for college and some dvds etc. I've been looking for a 13/14" for ages but cant find any as appealing!


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    AlmightyCushion
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    MadSambuka wrote: »
    nope, its basically for college and some dvds etc. I've been looking for a 13/14" for ages but cant find any as appealing!

    Dell xps m1330 range maybe?


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    Creamy Goodness
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    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Unless you want to store files over 4GBs.
    yes but that's a limitation forced by the way that file system works, it has the 4gb file size limit whether it's windows/mac/linux. hence i didn't see the need in bringing it up :p


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    majiktripp
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    On a side story , may have some relavence to your end decision, I was in a 3G store today looking at the New Imac's. One sales person came over to moe and started pitching how great they were to me. Now I own a mac mini already and do like it but I repair pc's/laptops so will always be windows fisrt,OSx second.Upon telling her this it was like I was slapping Steve Jobs in the face, she took great offence when I told her I felt that Mac's were a bit over priced. She told me of all the wonderful packages that come with OSx but when I mentioned Linux and free alternative like openoffice and Gimp for editing photos, jesus I opened up a can of worms! Slightly heated debate in the middle of a quiet enough 3G store which left me wishing I'd kept my mouth shut.
    Anyways! Enjoy the laptop which ever you go for!


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