On Jul 28, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: > > > On Jul 28, 11:38 am, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> > wrote: > >>> **Cannot afford to change/upgrade my HDs to GUID. >> Also this is a matter of reformatting the drive, not getting a new one or >> anything like that. >> -- >> look at early gen Intel Macbooks. Macbook Pros, and iMacs > Bruce, > I like the idea of looking at the books. would provide some > versatility and good point about the video. > > I'm presuming by early gen you mean 32 bit architecture.
Yes. > > Which raises a question about compatibility with iPads etc. Are not > the latest iPads 64 bit arch.? Of course, that's a future > consideration. > That's not material to iPad support. > Also, to be clear, you're saying that 10.6.8 is compatible with > Rosetta? Yes. Rosetta is part of 10.6 as well. > and my external drives merely need reformating to GUID? Only if the intent is to have them be bootable. Data storage drives can be any format. This is an option when setting up the partition scheme. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
