1 gb ram 120 gb harddrive, superdrive, good for a mac? i've been using windows forever, would like to start using a mac, but am reluctant....
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I am so thru with Micro crap, Windows 8 was the last straw. I love my Mac, so much faster and no spyware issues. There are a few incompatibility issues but I can live with them. 120gb hard drive and 1gb ram should be good unless you have huge storage needs like lot's of videos and pictures. Takes some getting used to, read the manual when starting out.
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Storage options are 256gb, 512gb or one 1TB. Anything else is not Apples standard.
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This drive has a lot of computability problems, I would not try it on mac, most likely it will not work.
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I have been loking around for an external drive, and I've noticed they all fail! IMO the best way to gois to have 2 of the drives and do a periodic copy of each to each. I have a free agent on my mac and it has been working perfectly, but I am looking for a drive to back up between a PC and a mac. Two cheap drives may be more reliable than a single more expensive, since they all fail and you cant "pay out" of the uncertainty. Change that: Buy two expensive hard drives and dont even fool with the Seagates..
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Are you using it for the primary boot drive, as in installing MAC Leopard to the drive, or just using it as a USB flash drive to store files and stuff to? For the former I have no reason to believe that I would not work however I have only tried it with Linux, not saying much cause Linux can be installed on anything. As for the later case the file system that the drive is formatted to is what makes the difference, unless Apple has some global external memory limit that I don't know about.That's a long answer to say there is not a reasonable reason that it would not work.
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I, too, have a Mac and a Windows. I've ended up having separate hard drives for each. Most of my data--years and years of documents and images--are on my Windows computer. I got the Mac because I needed a laptop and didn't want to get Vista. My experience is that I can plug the Windows hard drive to the Mac and it will recognize and read just about everything. The PC, on the other hand, will not recognize the drive from the Mac (at best) or will have a blue-screen tantrum (at worst--so far).
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My understanding is that it will work for either Windows or Mac but will need to be formatted when used with a Windows system. It is my understanding that once it is dedicated it is not recommended to the use the Gdrive back and forth between the two different computer systems. Hope this is helpful.
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Depends entirely on the storage capacity of the two computers are how much space is taken up on both. I personally use the 1 tb drive for just my 500gb MacBook Pro.
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You can run as many as you like providing your Mac has sufficent resources to handle them all. I have a MacPro 12 Core with 48GB or Ram and can easily run three seperate Windows sessions (1 Windows 2008 R2, & 2 Windows 7), (I've never tried more). I also have a Late 2013 Core i7 MBP with 16GB of ram that runs 2 windows sessions (Win 8 and Win 7) no problem.
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The drive work fine in a Mac. I had to buy an adapter, because the one that ships with it won't fit the Mac case. I bought it from Other World Computing.
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I am not an expert. I believe any Sata 2.5" hard drive should work. I have purchased several WD HDDs and Toshiba HDDs (2 of each) and they are all working perfectly. I use them for external hard drive storage and daily use. You might try to replace wit a Toshiba (but you surely can use either) as Toshiba is what Mac seems to use. The most important thing though is that its Sata 2.5"
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At least in my case, although I have MAC as well, the device came with an installation disk for windows only. I used on Windows. PS: Extremely happy with the easy of use and performance in windows.
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I have Mt Lion, I am not sure if there are any issues with previous OS's.. I can't imagine it being a problem, especially if you're using it as a sole hard drive.. I have the stock 1TB hdd as a secondary internal in my 2012 Mac mini, and if you pay attention to the OWC instructions on setup, it works like a dream. I can only imagine hardware not being compatible if anything. I really don't know 100%, but I assume you will be safe
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As far as I know what you initially buy, is it. I use my macbook for writing plays. No gaming or other memory suckers. Suggest you see what your own memory needs are. I believe you can also off load stuff to a portable drive. Hope this helped.
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Thank you all for the replies. That really cleared most of my concern. Now I'm trying to decide between Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. I still prefer macbook air because of the weight (thanks for bringing up the heavy textbooks factor:). however if it turns out Windows software is necessary, i might be interested in a macbook that's easier to setup two os. From what I heard so far, macbook air would be a headache to do that because of the lack of DVD/CD rom. I still have a lot of time before making the final decision though. Thanks again for your inputs.
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I also ended up using FAT32; I haven't seen any downside if you want to just store files... except the maximum file size. I don't know of any cross-platform format that has no file size limit, so my advice is FAT32 with the hope somebody else here knows of a better one! :)P.S: I have this exact product, and after a a few different attempts I found FAT32 to work for using it to move stuff from my windows 7 desktop to snow leopard macbook pro
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Hi, please... i want to know if this Crucial MX 100 512gb hard drive is compatible to my MINI MAC 2011 and if my system OS Yosemite recognize both hard drivers automatically. Thanks for help me.