About to buy a MacBook

cotton31

cotton31

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Hi all,

After a while saving, I am finally in a position to buy a MB.

Few things i want to run by you experts :D before I get it:

- I was going to buy the basic spec mac, upgrade the RAM and HDD from OcUK and buy an external hard drive for backups.

- However, now I am thinking about upgrading just the RAM, sticking with the standard HDD and buying a big-ish external hard drive to store my music, photos, and about 50 dvds.
In this scenario, the internal HDD would be just for apps.

Do you see any problems with scenario 2 in terms of streaming dvd films from a firewire/usb HDD, and the internal HDD being big enough to hold my apps.

Would I be better sticking to my original plan.

Sorry if my posts a bit of a mess, I just think if i'm buying a brilliant machine, why not do brilliant things with it :D.

Cheers for any help you can give me.
Matt
 
If you have the cash to upgrade both, do it.

I have all my music on my internal drive, video on external drive and it streams fine, both via USB2 and WiFi.
 
The normal 700Mb type. ;) The quality is ok for me, you may not like it though so rip one to 700 and see, if you don't like it, increase the quality.

I'd say a 500Gb drive would be fine.
 
Cheers mate, thats the sort of info I was after. Do you use handbrake to rip it?

Another question that I forgot to ask is: VMWare Fusion or Parallels?

I will probably need to use some Windows apps. Are all apps supported? Which is better? What about price? Do I need a copy of windows?

Sorry I'm asking a lot.

Cheers again.
 
Aye, Handbrake.

Not sure about the emulation as I have never done it, nor seen a reason to. But, all apps would be supported. Although, if you wouldn't want to run OS X and Windows at the same time you could just use Bootcamp.

Sorry for the pap answers btw, posting from my Touch atm.
 
cotton31 said:
Another question that I forgot to ask is: VMWare Fusion or Parallels?
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Have a butchers over at: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17796377 and decide on VM or Parallels there.

I had more errors than I care to remember with Parallels and installing XP, didn't get one single error with VM, so I went for VM and wouldn't look back!

Also when I get Leopard (waiting to get it with my new Mac Pro) then I can use my Boot Camp Vista with it also, so boot camp in for gaming, and VM the same installation for general Windows apps within OS X!

This gonna be ya first Mac? Once you mac you certainly won't want to go back, OS X all the way!!! :)
 
Yep, Apple built Boot Camp to work with VM Ware and Parallels, Apple where happy with their products, and as a thank you (I suppose) they built boot camp to allow you to run the same installation within those programs.

So if you installed you copy of Vista Ultimate oin Boot camp for example, then in VM Ware you will have an option to select the boot camp installation, and use that. So you won;t have to install it again!

I'm not sure how it works fully as I dont have boot camp yet, but it does work with VM and Paralllels.
 
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