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| Thread ID: 61287 | 2005-08-30 23:50:00 | Venturing into macintosh | CorbinH (37) | Press F1 |
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| 384733 | 2005-08-30 23:50:00 | well my friend is getting a new computer soon and he thinks hes gonna get mac, neither him nor me know anything about mac all i know is there about twice the price... i have a couple questions for anyone willing to answer... networking between mac and windows? does it work good, and is mac good with wireless? and what about putting mac and windows on partitions? do they mix well? also if some1 could point me in a direction to point him as to where to go about buying a mac that would help.... thanks to anyone who help -CorbinH |
CorbinH (37) | ||
| 384734 | 2005-08-31 00:09:00 | Mac and windows on partition won't work, as they are currently require different hardware, as in a macintosh requires a macintosh machine and Windows requires a X86 compatible machine They can network together etc though |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 384735 | 2005-08-31 02:19:00 | Aha. Post #1 there are many many resources: try http://www.macwindows.com for starters. Ask again if you need to - I have needed to go down this road many a time. |
teszeract (8723) | ||
| 384736 | 2005-08-31 03:14:00 | networking between mac and windows? does it work good, and is mac good with wireless?I have a Mac connecting happily to both win2k and samba servers. It's running OSX 10.4. Aparently there have been issues with older versions, but I have had no problems with the current OS. My flatmate had a powerbook that he connected to our DLink 802.11g AP. It was his thing so I never really looked at it, but he said he never got above 11mbps but other devices happily ran at 54mbps. He also had trouble transfering large (>200mb) files, and would plug into the wired lan. I'm not sure if that was a OSX or a Wireless AP fault.. as far as I know no-one else tried to do that often. and what about putting mac and windows on partitions? do they mix well? As other people have pointed out, the hardware (particularly the CPUs) are too different for both to run on the same system. However if you do need windows for some reason you can resort to emulation, with something like virtual PC. You would need a lot of RAM and don't even think about trying to run a game on the windows emulation. Hope it helps -Qyiet |
qyiet (6730) | ||
| 384737 | 2005-08-31 06:26:00 | check out theswitch (www.apple.com) mpage on the apple website. It should answer a few questions for you | plod (107) | ||
| 384738 | 2005-08-31 06:37:00 | There are no answers to be found in marketing propaganda. | Metla (12) | ||
| 384739 | 2005-08-31 07:17:00 | There are no answers to be found in marketing propaganda. Yes you are right there, but if you bothered to look, you would have found many of the answer's to Corbin's questions, about networking, between osx and xp, giving clear instructions , same with wireless.... jeez metla you need to venture out of wanganui a bit more, you are starting to sound a bit like a inbread redneck You could also check out apples support (www.apple.com) , they have a big knowledge base, and some good articles for running mixed networks |
plod (107) | ||
| 384740 | 2005-08-31 07:37:00 | I did look at the page before posting. Its poor form to answer a legitimate question with that sort of crap, though I have no doubt you have zero experience in the matter in question and are unable to see your folly. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 384741 | 2005-08-31 08:04:00 | duplicate post | plod (107) | ||
| 384742 | 2005-08-31 08:06:00 | As Corbin wasn't actually asking how to do it rather then if it can be done, hence my answer's, but I will try again..O.K Metla to answer the questions 1) yes mac and windows network. 2) Yes it works very well and very easy to setup from my personal experience, I got my instructions from the links in my previous post 3)Yes mac are good at wireless, never had any problems transferring large files and streaming video over it as well 4)At this stage dual booting is not posible(exceptions being hack intel developer boxes)You can run virtual pc on a mac, but it's not that fast, a;right for must have app's, however this might all change when the new intel mac's come out early 2006 Does this meet your approval Metla |
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