New at mac, ex PC girl...Thanks in advance!

[Consultant]

If you do photoshop a lot in the house, get a external 3.5" harddrive with firewire 800.

If you do photoshop on the road, get an external 2.5" harddrive with firwire 800.

You don't want to buy online? That could be a problem. Getting restore disks for an outdated OS in a store is anywhere between hard and impossible.

Actually the translation is the OP doesn't want to PAY online.

Note the OP is getting Transmission.

 

[perfectforever]

Yes, I might have to do the online buy...

You don't want to buy online? That could be a problem. Getting restore disks for an outdated OS in a store is anywhere between hard and impossible.

going window shopping tomorrow

You can upgrade to 10.5. Leopard, I run it on my machine with similar specs too. Definitely up the ram to 2gb though, since you also want to run Photoshop CS3. 10.5 & CS3 on a G4 with 1 gb ram could be disappointing.

Thanks for the advice, hard-drive on my shopping list...however...

HUH?
"Actually the translation is the OP doesn't want to PAY online Note the OP is getting Transmission" ????

If you do photoshop a lot in the house, get a external 3.5" harddrive with firewire 800.

If you do photoshop on the road, get an external 2.5" harddrive with firwire 800.



Actually the translation is the OP doesn't want to PAY online.

Note the OP is getting Transmission.

 

[benlangdon]

hey i got leopard also if you want it, give me an offer

 

[mad jew]

HUH?
"Actually the translation is the OP doesn't want to PAY online Note the OP is getting Transmission" ????

I think it's being inferred that you'll download the apps illegally. Please don't.

 

[benlangdon]

well to make a bootable disc, it has to be a dual layer because its over 4 gb for a dvd.

of course if you have a external drive and you make a partition it works also.

 

[perfectforever]

AH!!! sorry another blonde movement!

I think it's being inferred that you'll download the apps illegally. Please don't.

Not that its anyones bizz;

I like to avoid purchasing anything online because:

1- I am an American living in Europe therefor I have a huge market to chose from; family and friends in the US can help me look for the best price there and same story for the rest of the world. As a matter of fact, one of my best friends its in Sydney ATM and looking for me there.

2- because of my business, I have being working with the security industry and involved on seminars for the security market, aka international police and the like. so I am a little more paranoid about making deals via internet, where I need to share my spec.

3- I believe that if I research and look around, I will be able to get a good deal without the need to involve my private information.

Example: the local Mac store its having a sale on hard drives, "themini oxygen 160GB FW+USB2.0" its on sale for 90 USD; haven´t yet check around in the US to see the equivalent, but it looks ok.

After upgrading my Mac and BUYING all that it´s need it I will not have time for more "mac software/hardware issues". So, I am trying to avoid any future needs by BUYING now all that I need.

I think the 160GB drive its too small and I am looking for a Sonnet Fusion F2 1TB or similar. Have also called Adobe (AS I already have the CS3 suit disks for my PC and an account with Adobe) they told me I can use and download the CS3 for my Mac without a problem. Nevertheless,I will get the external hard drive first...just in case..

Question - I have about 1000 music cds, would like to save some to my mac and the rest on the hard drive...its there a way to make this process less painful or do I have to do one by one?? ..

Anyway, thanks for all the help...I am sure that as soon as I start really using the Mac, I will have more questions...Have a great day!

 

[Neil321]

Not that its anyones bizz;

It's his bizz on these forums, as anything to do with piracy is not permitted