At 09:12 AM 4/6/06 -0700, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >Well, since the three current Intel Macs hardly have room for another >hard drive (Mac Mini uses a laptop drive, MacBook is a laptop, and the >iMac has an internal drive already), it doesn't make sense to even think >about an internal drive. Assuming that the forthcoming desktop Intel >Macs will have ATA hard drive (or that $40 staples drive you mentioned) >then you can easily add another drive to your Mac. But, I'd expect >Apple's new desktops will have Serial ATA drives, like the current >Powermacs due........so.........an ATA drive won't work right out of the >box.
I haven't looked at the Mac boxes, so I really don't know what they look like or what fits in them, hence my questions. The Maxtor drives are SATA now, and I have my various drives in ATA caddies, USB caddies, 1394 caddies and an X-drive ... making up just shy of a terabyte of project storage in hard drives that I presently exchange among three machines. As long as the Windows-formatted drives would work in some way or another, even with two or three steps to do it, that's good. Please remember I'm truly Mac-ignorant, and these answers may seem obvious to you, but not me. I used an Apple II at a Vermont Computer Club meeting sometime about 1980, had some brought to my shop (Apple wouldn't sell internals), and I have a few times browsed with my mother-in-law's machine. Basically I was TRS-80 from 1977 through 1992, and PC from 1992. >And sound cards. M-Audio's stuff has always worked on Macs. Not sure >about Creatives stuff, but M-Audio's stuff is better in my opinion. >Plus, you can run a version of protools on M-Audio's hardware (since >they are the same company). Egosys Waveterminal 2496 PCI cards. I don't use Protools because of its hardware-centrism, and all my audio (Sonar, AudioMulch, Audition, etc.) is Windows-only. What really interests me is the integration of the two OSes, even if through these tentative steps, and the ability to share files, etc., convert one to another as needed, and at last be able to talk with Mac clients over the phone. It doesn't happen often, but I have one Mac client who's as ignorant of PC as I am of Mac, and we're always struggling over installed font issues (my default Finale template is very modified) and what keystrokes and menu items do what. It's some fancy scoring (next question in following post). Dennis -- Please participate in my latest project: http://maltedmedia.com/waam/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
