Originally Posted By smeeeko Hurray! those Macs can do a lot of stuff.. I secretly hope our next computer is a Mac (for all the movie and photo editing stuff you can do with it!!) =)
Originally Posted By peeaanuut trek: so far its been interesting. I am an old school mac member, do I have to repay my dues? irish: Not exactly. it just fit into my budget. Elderp: I am finding that the expensive software I had on the PC I dont need for the mac. So far that is. Such as photoshop. I think I can get away with elements vs a full version. The hardware is what is becoming the issue. My external burner doesnt seem to work.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<I am an old school mac member>> Then perhaps I should say, "Welcome home!"
Originally Posted By mapleservo Congratulations! iMac? Not sure if it's changed but Adobe used to do crossgrades, basically upgrade and switch platforms for the same price as an upgrade. I think they used to do straight crossgrades for a nominal fee ($25?) as well. Photoshop Elements is a version behind on the Mac (I thought we had passed that phase ). You could probably get by for a couple months with just the 30-day trials from Adobe.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut i got a mini. The story goes like this. I had been moving all my stuff to external drives. Well my computer was a bit old and it was in desperate need of an upgrade. Well after 3 months of uptime with regular use, I decided to shut it down for the night. Next thing I know, it wont start. So began several hours of troubleshooting. next came the planned trip to frys. Well i decided to just buy the mac at the mac store and call it a day. So far it has been good. I realized that I need more external drive enclosures as I had 6 internal HDd on my last computer. So Im going to go buy 2 2tb mybooks and load everything off of these drives one drive at a time. So my mac mini will end up with several external harddrives and an external burner as I got the combo drive and not the superdrive.
Originally Posted By peeaanuut Dave: i know, tell me about it. its more like 12 1/2 months now. And yes, she knows. She went to buy it with me. She wants one for herself now. lol
Originally Posted By mapleservo Actually, if you're getting external storage, you could get a firewire drive and boot from that. From what I understand, the internal mini drive can be a little slow and booting from an external firewire speeds things up. (I'm not sure what Apple did with the Mini when they refreshed it a couple weeks back, though).
Originally Posted By peeaanuut It seems to boot fine right now. the 2 external drives I have connected are both firewire so that helps on plugs and stuff. Still getting it set up. Just installed firefox and getting my music worked out right now as we chat. Unfortunately I didnt delete alot of crap on the old drives so that is taking some time as well. Oh well.the fun of a new toy,
Originally Posted By peeaanuut ok i have an issue. it says I can only read what is on the external drives and wont let me make new folders or delete anything. What gives? Any ideas?
Originally Posted By mapleservo Is it NTFS format? From what I understand, NTFS is read only from the Mac... <a href="http://www.macworld.com/2006/07/features/ww_drives/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.macworld.com/2006/0 7/features/ww_drives/index.php</a>
Originally Posted By peeaanuut yeah i just read that. thanks for the look up. Im doing the scoot and boot method right now. I found an old 100gig hdd that I formated and now Im scooting stuff from 1 drive to the next and than formatting and so on and so forth. Gonna take a while but oh well. I dont feel like doing burn back-up right now. Oh this is going to be lots of fun. So now the list grows. Jayna wants one now, My mom wants one, Jaynas mom wants one and I have decided that a mini would work out alot better for a HTPC than appleTV. Oh what have I started?
Originally Posted By mapleservo My sister-in-law, after fighting for a year trying to edit video on her husbands HP, picked up a 17 inch iMac (the prior model which was on sale) about 2 weeks ago and just loves it. And her enthusiasm is contagious, which is another word for expensive! She's hoping to get the whole family on iMacs as she finds the built in camera and iChat so easy to use.
