Well, I've come to the conclusion tonight that my MacBook Pro is going to be my main computer from now on.
I'd been saving wildly for a new PC, but to be honest, I'm going to spend too much money on it. And 2 months (if I'm lucky) down the line it's going to be out of date. And I'll want to update it again. Something of an addiction. A bad one.
So, I have a few things I need to clear up before I finally do go and put the nails in the decision - and I'm hoping the brains of your fine selves can help me out.
I've identified a few potential things but if you think there may be more or wish to warn me of any, feel free.
1) My MBP has an X1600 (128mb) - am I likely to encounter any problems with going external on a 1920x1200 monitor? (24" Inch, looking at the Dell HC 2407, specifically)
2) Any potential issues with the USBs/Card Reader on the monitor or pretty straight forward?
3) I prefer to have a clean install of OS X with the 'important' stuff' based on external hard drives. Am I likely to face any perfomance issues?
4) I currently have my SATA-II hard drives from my PC. I had planned to install these into my new rig (as they contain important stuff) - but will it be as easy as buying a hard drive USB caddy and taking the information off them from within OS X? I understand OS X can read NTFS, just not write to it.
Think that's about it for now (unless you can make the new Apple keyboard come into stock
) . A lot of the things are common questions which I have looked into online - but would prefer a second, third or fourth opinion on them.
Thanks very much.
I'd been saving wildly for a new PC, but to be honest, I'm going to spend too much money on it. And 2 months (if I'm lucky) down the line it's going to be out of date. And I'll want to update it again. Something of an addiction. A bad one.
So, I have a few things I need to clear up before I finally do go and put the nails in the decision - and I'm hoping the brains of your fine selves can help me out.
I've identified a few potential things but if you think there may be more or wish to warn me of any, feel free.
1) My MBP has an X1600 (128mb) - am I likely to encounter any problems with going external on a 1920x1200 monitor? (24" Inch, looking at the Dell HC 2407, specifically)
2) Any potential issues with the USBs/Card Reader on the monitor or pretty straight forward?
3) I prefer to have a clean install of OS X with the 'important' stuff' based on external hard drives. Am I likely to face any perfomance issues?
4) I currently have my SATA-II hard drives from my PC. I had planned to install these into my new rig (as they contain important stuff) - but will it be as easy as buying a hard drive USB caddy and taking the information off them from within OS X? I understand OS X can read NTFS, just not write to it.
Think that's about it for now (unless you can make the new Apple keyboard come into stock
) . A lot of the things are common questions which I have looked into online - but would prefer a second, third or fourth opinion on them.Thanks very much.
