OSX Gurus please help!

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Grimspoon said:
Tell me about it, I canned 3 DL DVDS trying to burn a bootable disc.
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The cost of entry and the price of knowledge.

Now that you have it working and are a bit more relaxed why not go back and try the DVD install.

Personally I cannot rest until I know how everything works.

That knowledge might come in handy some time.


MW
 
I hear what you are saying MW and I might just do that. I would feel a lot better I know that. ;)
 
Check your suppositions

Grimspoon said:
I have a external drive with the mac file system on with the image on, but I cant copy it to either my External FAT32 drive because you cant copy more than 4 gigs to a F32
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Pretty sure that you can have a FAT32 partition larger than 4Gb
The OLD FAT16 was where all the limitations were.

MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
Pretty sure that you can have a FAT32 partition larger than 4Gb
The OLD FAT16 was where all the limitations were.

MW
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You can have a FAT32 larger than 4GB BUT you can't copy more than 4GB file to a FAT32 partition. Hence my issue of trying to copy the 6 GB .dmg to my external which is FAT32.

I tried to get smart and booted with Knoppix and tried that way to copy the .dmg to my PC's HD which is NTFS however it says Access Denied :(
 
Glad you got it sorted out - Snow Leopard will be out soon enough os you can try again then from a DVD :)

We look forward to the ensuing OsX related questions :D
 
bwana said:
Glad you got it sorted out - Snow Leopard will be out soon enough os you can try again then from a DVD :)

We look forward to the ensuing OsX related questions :D
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Thanks Bwana.

Lol I think I have it down for the next one, I hope anyway.

Tell me, do Apple charge for new OS's? Or is it a free upgrade like with the iPhone.
 
Grimspoon said:
Thanks Bwana.

Lol I think I have it down for the next one, I hope anyway.

Tell me, do Apple charge for new OS's? Or is it a free upgrade like with the iPhone.
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OSes are updated with some regularity (point releases every two months or so).

New OSes usually retail at $129. Mac OS 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) will retail for $29 when it is released as it will be an upgrade to Leopard but will be Intel Only, if all speculation and promise from Apple is to be believed.
 
GreGorGy said:
OSes are updated with some regularity (point releases every two months or so).

New OSes usually retail at $129. Mac OS 10.6 (aka Snow Leopard) will retail for $29 when it is released as it will be an upgrade to Leopard but will be Intel Only, if all speculation and promise from Apple is to be believed.
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Ok thats not to bad. You say it will be for Intel only, what other processors do mac use? I can't say I have ever heard of a AMD mac. Is there such thing.

$29 is not the bad considering Windows just revamped Vista and are now selling it as a totally new OS.

I was actually suprised OSX is only R1500, thought it would be much more.
 
Splitter

Grimspoon said:
You can have a FAT32 larger than 4GB BUT you can't copy more than 4GB file to a FAT32 partition. Hence my issue of trying to copy the 6 GB .dmg to my external which is FAT32.
I tried to get smart and booted with Knoppix and tried that way to copy the .dmg to my PC's HD which is NTFS however it says Access Denied :(
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Just use a "file-splitter" and make three smaller pieces -- join them up when they are on the disk. :)

Gotta keep on scheming ..........

MW
 
Pricing

Grimspoon said:
Ok thats not to bad. You say it will be for Intel only, what other processors do mac use? I can't say I have ever heard of a AMD mac. Is there such thing.
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PPC -- Power PC -- the old CPU platform

AMD -- no idea -- gotta find a Mac Mini so I can experiment. ;):)

Grimspoon said:
$29 is not the bad considering Windows just revamped Vista and are now selling it as a totally new OS.
I was actually suprised OSX is only R1500, thought it would be much more.
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All affiliates of a certain "caring" company are meant to have standard and universal prices.:)

I have seen however that they can and do vary quite a bit.:erm:


MW
 
MidnightWizard said:
PPC -- Power PC -- the old CPU platform

AMD -- no idea -- gotta find a Mac Mini so I can experiment. ;):)



All affiliates of a certain "caring" company are meant to have standard and universal prices.:)

I have seen however that they can and do vary quite a bit.:erm:


MW
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Good to know, thanks for the info MW ;)
 
Older Macs used PowerPC processors. A decision to move to Intel was taken in 2005 (IIRC) and all new models since circa Jan 2006 feature Intel processors. Leopard is the last OS that will run on these older (G4, G5) Macs. Snow Leopard will be Intel-only (according to reports, Apple, etc) meaning it will excludes PowerPC. No AMD Macs. Windows has always been over-priced :)

OS X also only comes in one flavour for home, office, pro, developer, kid, student, etc.
 
GreGorGy said:
Older Macs used PowerPC processors. A decision to move to Intel was taken in 2005 (IIRC) and all new models since circa Jan 2006 feature Intel processors. Leopard is the last OS that will run on these older (G4, G5) Macs. Snow Leopard will be Intel-only (according to reports, Apple, etc) meaning it will excludes PowerPC. No AMD Macs. Windows has always been over-priced :)

OS X also only comes in one flavour for home, office, pro, developer, kid, student, etc.
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Ok I see I see. I have heard that those older macs are seriously awesome considering their specs and just keep running solid. Do you think this was due to using PPC?
 
I've got two old PPC macs and one Intel Mac, the PPC is very stable, but ... when it comes to video compression and the like, the Intel is far superior. No AMD chip set has been released, Apple did test the chip when they decided to go over to x86 architecture but you cant get them seeing as they are prototype's.
 
Guys I didn't want to go and create another thread so I will just use this thread as a platform for my silly questions ;)

I was wondering how many of you ever shut down your mac? A friend of mine never does and just shuts the lid basically putting it to sleep. I am doing the same which makes life so much easier.

Any adverse effects to doing this? Should you shut it down ever?

Spanks! :)
 
Grimspoon said:
Guys I didn't want to go and create another thread so I will just use this thread as a platform for my silly questions ;)

I was wondering how many of you ever shut down your mac? A friend of mine never does and just shuts the lid basically putting it to sleep. I am doing the same which makes life so much easier.

Any adverse effects to doing this? Should you shut it down ever?

Spanks! :)
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No need to shutdown, the mac goes to sleep safely and writes the memory to disk to secure your data if the battery dies.

Also the mac does routine maintenance if you leave it on long enough.. no defrag needed of course, although you should reboot once a month and run a permissions check at least now and again, it still is a PC. :)
 
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I restart/shutdown when software update insists on it but rarely otherwise.

BTW - get and install applejack now before you have issues. ;)
 
Aqua_lung said:
No need to shutdown, the mac goes to sleep safely and writes the memory to disk to secure your data if the battery dies.

Also the mac does routine maintenance if you leave it on long enough.. no defrag needed of course, although you should reboot once a month and run a permissions check at least now and again, it still is a PC. :)
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Awesome, as the days go on I wonder why I didn't a mac earlier ;)
 
onyx is also a fairly decent cleanup app.

if u have not done it already, make a backup with time machine....the amount of time it will save u is silly...especially if u get a dodgy firmware/software update.
 
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