On 4/8/07, Jan van Wijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My plan is to get a new iMac 24", which is a pretty fast modern one > that should last a couple of years, with 2Gb memory and 500Gb disk.
That will be a nice fast machine. :-) > I am going to run Parallels on it to be able to run (many) other operating > systems for testing purposes, and buy Lightroom for my photowork. > (having been using CS2 on Windows sofar). Keep the option open for running Photoshop on the mac, too. IIRC, you can transfer your CS2 license to the mac for free, and then pay for the CS3 upgrade ($179 in the US, I think). > 1) can you have a 2nd internal disk is such a system ? No, not on the iMac. Not enough space inside. > 2) what external storage is recommended ? > I saw I have a choice of Firewire-400/800 and USB 2.0 External drive enclosures that run FW800 are available but expensive. FW400 enclosures are easy to find, and affordable. For bulk storage like a hard drive, USB 2.0 is slower than FW400, by a factor of about 2 to 3. I'd use it only as a last resort, and for your USB card reader. > Speed is of some importance, but I would like to be able to > share the storage with other (windows) systems too ... > That may mean using a FAT32 filesystem perhaps ? > Does the MAC support that natively with OS-X ? Yes, OSX supports FAT32 natively. > Or would an HFS+ external disk be muchbetter, and use yet > another cheap Windows compatible one just for backup ... I guess that depends on how you're using the drive. I have a drive here that was until recently partitioned up into a FAT32 partition (for backup image storage), and HFS+ (a clone of my iBook's hard drive). It is now a single HFS+ partition, now that I've moved my image storage to the new (G5 powermac) machine. > Any insights welcome, as said MAC is new to me :-) The answer to "can a mac do x, y or z?" is usually yes. :-) -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
