Considering switching to Mac but.....

Hi everyone,
I'm sorry to sound such a noob but i have never owned a Mac in my life, but i've got an 2.4 Ghz iMac on loan from work at the moment to try it out and i love it! However i do so have a few questions relating to the switch. I am considering a brand new MB Pro 15 inch with a Bootcamped Windows XP install but am unsure as to the way to go with storage.
You see i currently use several music related apps in Windows such as Acid Pro, Cubase, Wavelab etc so i need access to heaps of wav files and mp3s, but i will need to read and write to them with both Windows and Leopard.
After some research my thoughts here lean towards an external drive that possibly both operating systems can access but, correct me if i'm wrong, for both OS's to be able to read and write to it the drive needs to be formatted in Fat32 yes? I had considered a larger internal drive on the MB but i'm not sure which partition would be best to store the wavs - i know if the windows partition is over 32gig then it has to be formatted in NTFS but Leopard can't write to it, and on the other hand Windows can't read the Mac partition right?
Secondly, i would like to use the USB 2.0 interface so i can use the drive in my other Firewire-less Windows laptops and at work, but will this interface be fast enough for Acid Pro when it's accessing multiple audio files at once? I do have a couple of newish 500 GB SATA drives i'm thinking of putting into an enclosure but now the MB has no express slot i can't go for an eSATA interface, or can I?
And finally, is there any truth in the rumour that the sound in a bootcamped copy of Windows is very quiet compared to Leopard? I will be using an external audio interface for pro recording however.
I'm sorry if these have been asked before but i did a search, found a few answers but couldn't really find the answers to all my questions.
Many thanks in advance.
John

Windows 7 audio drivers and codecs are still a work in progress but should be much better.
You can read and write to NTFS with 3rd party drivers from Mac side, and Mac OS 10.6 will allow reading HFS+ natively from Windows with its driver. Third, MacDrive allows reading and writing to HFS+ from Windows now.
There are some ExpressCards with eSATA and USB but the iMac doesn't offer expansion, which is why I would never buy one. And there isn't a slimmed down Mac Pro workstation. The eSATA would be fine, and USB3 won't be here until 2010.
I think you'd love a PC using Core i7 with all the drives and memory, audio card and graphics. I went from Windows on Mac (and still do) but added a couple PCs which are much easier to configure and use.
You could make most of your internal drive be Windows, leave a small basic Mac OS. You can't have more than Mac OS and Windows. There are other hidden partitions that go against the 4 that MBR allows.

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Hello everyone, i have been a PC/Windows user all of my life, and am now very seriously considering switching over to mac. However, i have some questions first that i cant seem to find a direct answer to, and apologize in advance for asking things that might seem like a stupid question... so, here goes:
1. If i were to switch over to the mac version of Microsoft Office, could i swap documents i created in Word with PC's and vice versa(all of the rest of my families computers are PCs as are my schools)without any problems? Would whatever that answer is be the same for any other Office apps like PowerPoint?
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7. Am i right in assuming that i can network my new mac and my old PC in order to move my iTunes library (in AAC format)
from the PC to the Mac? Just for the record, none of the music that i purchased from the iTunes store is "Protected" anymore because i burnt it to a cd and re-imported it, however the videos and tv shows that i bought from them im assuming are still protected, so how could i move THOSE to a my new mac?
Once again, i apologize that I have so many questions that probably seem pretty stupid, but i havent been able to find direct answers to these specific questions
I also want to say thank you in advance for any help anyone can give me, sorry im such a clueless PC user, but, hopefully, with these questions answered, i will be able to happily switch to mac.
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Sony Windows XP
Sony Windows XP

Hello,
switching over to mac. However, i have some
questions first that i cant seem to find a direct
I'll answer them as we go below:
1. If i were to switch over to the mac version of
Microsoft Office, could i swap documents i created in
Word with PC's and vice versa(all of the rest of my
families computers are PCs as are my schools)without
any problems? Would whatever that answer is be the
same for any other Office apps like PowerPoint?
Yes, all the documents will open and exchange between Microsoft Office for the Mac and Microsoft Office for the PC without trouble.
You can send and exchange them in either direction, and it will work fine.
My wife does just that with her computer. She uses Office for Windows at work and Office for Mac at home.
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents move either direction without any trouble.
There is no Mac version of Access though.
Personally, I use the free NeoOffice program on my system:
http://www.neooffice.org/
It is also compatible with Microsoft Office. Everything exchanges back and forth in either direction without trouble.
I've exchanged a lot of documents with Office users who have PC's, and they've never had any trouble opening anything I've sent them, and I've never had any problems with anything they've sent me.
NeoOffice can also work with PowerPoint files as well. They've played just fine for me.
It exchanges / works with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
2. Am I correct that Safari is an internet browser?
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But, there are also versions of Opera, FireFox, Netscape, and many others, for the Mac if you want to use something different.
3. Does iChat come with the Macs, or is it a seperate
program you have to buy?
It comes standard on all Macs. It's part of OS X.
4. In iChat, can i still instant message all of my
friends who use AIM on a PC and still use my old
screen-name if i wanted to?
Yes. You just enter your AIM screen-name when you setup iChat. And, it works as expected from there.
iChat has been designed to work just fine with AIM accounts, and will allow you to talk to other AIM users without any hassle.
What if i wanted to
create a new AIM screen-name? do i just go to
AIM.com, make a new one, and use it in iChat without
actually downloading the AIM program?
Yes. Just do it at their website. That's how I did it.
5. I currently have AOL on my PC but, of course, it
*****, and i hear it is even worse on a Mac, so i
would just use Safari, but can i still keep my old
@aol.com e-mail address and access my e-mail through
aol.com? and if i wanted to, could i create a new
@aol.com e-mail address using this same method?
If you're talking about using Safari to go to the AOL site and use their webmail interface to check your e-mail, then yes that should work just fine.
6. Will i still be able to watch all the online
videos that run using quicktime/real player/windows
media player, on my mac?
Yes.
There are Mac versions of all of those programs. Quicktime comes with all Macs. But, you can download the others.
Windows Media Player has been discontinued, but it still works and can be downloaded from Microsoft's website.
There is also a plug-in to play Windows Media Players in Apple's Quicktime Player.
7. Am i right in assuming that i can network my new
mac and my old PC in order to move my iTunes library
(in AAC format)
from the PC to the Mac? Just for the record, none of
the music that i purchased from the iTunes store is
"Protected" anymore because i burnt it to a cd and
re-imported it, however the videos and tv shows that
i bought from them im assuming are still protected,
so how could i move THOSE to a my new mac?
You should be able to find all you need on that here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
Those directions explain how to move them using your iPod. But, you could use the same basic method to move them over the network. Just substitute copying through the network for the part that addresses copying them into and from the iPod.
The rest should be about the same.
I also want to say thank you in advance for any help
anyone can give me,
You're quite welcome. Glad to help
Let us know if you have other questions.
P.S., if you'd like, go ahead and click the "Helpful" or "Solved" buttons on mine or any of the other posts / replies if you feel they were helpful or adequately answered your question.

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