about to buy my first Mac. a little help please. :)

**photojojo** · 10-20-2010, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by zimfella

It's got snow leopard 10.5 on it. I will try and haggle a bit which i have not done although they are still pricer on ebay , after all i gave a 12string guitar which is his pride and joy besides his new macbook pro lol, mates rates hey

Thanks guy's for the peace of mind, was unsure of a laptop that old.

10.5 is Leapord, 10.6 is Snow Leapord, and 10.7 is Lion and was announced today. There were some decent changes from 10.5 to 10.6, but nothing real major. You can buy a 10.6 upgrade disc for $29 from Apple though so it's cheap enough to go ahead and do it.

**zimfella** · 10-20-2010, 04:16 PM

Originally Posted by photojojo

10.5 is Leapord, 10.6 is Snow Leapord, and 10.7 is Lion and was announced today. There were some decent changes from 10.5 to 10.6, but nothing real major. You can buy a 10.6 upgrade disc for $29 from Apple though so it's cheap enough to go ahead and do it.

cheers that' alot clearer now. was a bit confused on that.

**photojojo** · 10-20-2010, 05:35 PM

That $29 is a full install to so I would recommend starting from scratch.

**zimfella** · 10-26-2010, 03:07 PM

Thanks for your help guy's

One more probably really dumb question

all my music and pictures I save on my external hard drive from windows 7, will they be able to transfer easily to Mac OS or is there a trick and possibly a headache coming up?

Cheers

**natebehe** · 10-26-2010, 07:50 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your gonna have to format the disk when you plug in the hard drive to a Mac

**astromech** · 10-27-2010, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by natebehe

Yeah, I'm pretty sure your gonna have to format the disk when you plug in the hard drive to a Mac

NTFS formatted drives are Read only in OS X. You can copy from the drive but not to it.

**zimfella** · 10-27-2010, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by happydan

NTFS formatted drives are Read only in OS X. You can copy from the drive but not to it.

so I will be able to transfer my music? then format the drive?

Thanks

ctrld · 10-27-2010, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by zimfella

want to use it for music and er porn lol

I heard macs do not support porn.

edit: at least not heterosexual porn.

**Rumblejazz** · 10-27-2010, 07:31 AM

Those macs max(macs) out at 4gb ram. can't do six. RAM is faster in matched pairs, consider going to 4gb, wipe hard drive, give it a clean. Snow leopard, maybe a new battery, and it'll be friggen awesome

**Marcus Wortley** · 10-27-2010, 08:59 AM

Get it, it sounds good to go, I echo Rumblejazz's advice above!

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