Mac OS X leopard question
Hey Guys!
I am a newbie so please don't start jumping my case because I don't know some things. I am getting a macbook for graduation next spring. I want to get a handle on the mac OS because I have never used it. I was going to ask for OS X Leopard for christmas this year. Would it be possible to install it on a protable hard drive run by USB to a windows machine? In this way, The OS is on the hard drive, but I would still be able to use the PC's drives and such. Will this work. Any suggestions would help. Thank you.
Part of how they make the Mac such a good experience is by having close integration between hardware and software. Rather than taking the Windows approach of having one company develop the OS and other companies develop drivers, and still more companies building machines and bundling the OS and drivers with them (which means that three different companies, sometimes, all have to get everything working together), Apple prefers to develop all of the software and hardware themselves (and they can control who they buy other hardware like graphics cards and motherboards), so they know exactly what hardware they have to support and make it work very well and as seamless as possible.
Also, Apple makes a large amount of it's money off of hardware sales. If you could install Mac OS X on any hardware, people would usually buy the cheapest possible hardware they could, which wouldn't work as well but would cut into Apple's profits on it's hardware.
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I thought that a retail disc was for any of the Mac's, right?
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If you want to save some money, just get the 2.16 GHZ. The speed difference in the processor won't be that noticeable and definitely not enough difference to pay $250 extra. That's twice the price of having Tiger now and upgrading later.
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it told me how to reinstall pressing C and power button and all...
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i'm a total macbook newbie and computer (especially macbook) dummy..
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