Hi Godders, Thanks for the useful info, some comments embedded ...
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 07:52:22 -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi 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. >> >> 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). > >Parallels allows running various versions of Windows simultaneously >with Mac OS X. But I wouldn't consider that an ideal testing >environment, if you're testing software for Windows. Actually my software is multi-platform (DOS, Linux, OS/2 and Windows sofar) so I would need to run most/all of that in parallels wich seems possible from the specifications. My software is text-based at the moment, being system-level file and disk-recovery software, but I plan to add a GUI to it. > Apple's Boot Camp allows booting up the machine with >either Windows XP SP2 or Mac OS X but not simultaneously, >which makes for a better testing environment for Windows >work or Mac OS X work as you're running in the specific >environment without emulation or encapsulation. Yes, have read about that, I may install that besides OS X itself. I will keep a native XP (and OS/2) machine arround too, so it is not critical. Being able to quickly test something without rebooting is a plus :-) >There are also a couple of different Linux operating systems >that can be used to start up the machine. And OS/2 or eComStation fortunately, since that is my main development environment at the moment. It is supposed to run fairly well on that huge screen and fast CPU ... >> My questions are with external/internal disk storage: >> >> 1) can you have a 2nd internal disk is such a system ? > >No, the iMac hardware is limited to one internal drive bay. If you >want a multiple internal drive system, you need a Mac Pro tower. > >> 2) what external storage is recommended ? >> I saw I have a choice of Firewire-400/800 and USB 2.0 > >FireWire 800 formatted to is the fastest of the three. FireWire 400 >does better at throughput compared to USB 2.0, and USB 2.0 in >conjunction with FAT32 and UNIX formatted volumes provides the >greatest ability to plug and play with Windows and other systems >since USB 2.0 is more widely delivered than FireWire. OK, understood. I think I will go for a fast Firewire-800 disk (perhaps Lacie 500Gb) as a 'permanent' second disk (for Lightroom 2ndary storage as well), and then use cheap USB 2.0 external disks with FAT32 for backup. (I already have several of those for testing anyway :-) >> 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 ? >> >> Or would an HFS+ external disk be muchbetter, and use yet >> another cheap Windows compatible one just for backup ... > >I suggest formatting the startup drive or partition on which Mac OS >X, the Mac OS X development system (Xcode and all its compiler/linker/ >IDE/etc components), Do these come with the machine standard, or do I have to buy them ? >and applications will reside in Apple's "HFS >Extended, Journaled" file system format. Other partitions and >external drives can be formatted to FAT32 for maximum data >interchange capability with Windows systems. Sounds good, I think I will have most of the internal disk as HFS+ >Mac OS X can also read NTFS volumes but cannot write to them. Yes, same situation as Linux and OS/2 I guess (complexity issues :-) >HFS+ volumes are somewhat faster in terms of file system access than >others, but the differences are small with modest size volumes. Large >FAT32 volumes do get somewhat slower. Understand, will use that for backup only ... >BTW: the name of the computer is "Apple iMac". >The name of the operating system is "Mac OS X". :-) OK, will try to remember :-) May bug you again in some time when starting to actually use it and Lightroom :-) Thanks again, Regards, JvW ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jan van Wijk; http://www.dfsee.com/gallery -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
