So I might convert to mac...some questions.

[OzyOly]

Hey there. I'm getting very tempted to so buy an iMac. I'm just setting up OS10 on a pc, to try it out, but from what I've seen so far, it takes all i love about windows and all I love about linux and puts it into one.

I'm pretty much sold on the idea and will buy a 24" iMac this summer.


I've just got a few questions about it. Currently I have over 800GBs worth of data on my pc. what space is there on an iMac (physical space that is), can I put my existing hard drives (formatted as NTFS) in my iMac or not. Also, there only seems to be 5 USB ports, is there anyway to upgrade them to maybe 10?

And finally, is the optical drive upgradeable, because I have a blu-ray drive and a speedy DVDRW in my pc at the moment that i wouldn't mind thwacking in there.

Cheers all.

 

[OzyOly]

Sadly No.

The iMac is an all-in-one box so not upgradeable as such.

You would need to put extra disks on externally, either firewire or usb, will need an external usb hub to do this if more then 5 required.

Also BluRay etc is a no no.

The upgradeable Mac as such is the MAC Pro which is a beast of a box, still no BluRay though.

I would suggest that build a NAS box with your existing storage and access your data that way. Use your NAS box to put BluRay disks onto disk for viewing on the iMac.

Would I be able to put my blu-ray drive into a mac pro?

If so i might go down that route.

 

[OzyOly]

You can put it in, but OS X lacks Blu-ray support so it would be pretty much useless.

Hmmm. So blu-ray only works with windows so far? seeing as linux is out of the questions with it being open source and so not allowed to play blu-ray.

I keep getting rid of reasons why I HAVE to use windows, then another draws me back in and makes me use it.