NTFS Confusion - my new macbook reads and writes fine out of the box

I just purchased my first Mac and was a bit worried about having to format all my external drives to FAT32 or use a third party program. However, after copying all my backup files from my external, I then discovered that I was also able to drag and drop files back onto the drive just fine.
Is this a new function built into recent Macs or what? The drive says its NTFS and even says on the box to reformat to work with Mac.
Anyone else experience this?

black562 wrote:
Well this is interesting. I got home and decided to look at the drive properties and, even though it says NTFS on the box, its actually FAT32....so that answers alot of questions.
I guess the good news is that I don't have to change it now....its nice when problems work themselves.
Unless you want to use it with Time Machine (either as a source or destination), or put any files larger than 4 GB on it.

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