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Leopard wont fit on 10gb :P Its about 16-7Gb for a bare install.

Windows doesn't recognise any volumes - only 250Gb of 'unknown' space

Does right clicking on my computer and going to manage not show the partitions? It should even if they incompatible.

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Leopard wont fit on 10gb :P Its about 16-7Gb for a bare install.

The install disk ISO will though ;)

Does right clicking on my computer and going to manage not show the partitions? It should even if they incompatible.

Nope. It just says 'unknown' or something.

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right, working with bootcamp.

i've installed windoze. now i need to install the boot camp drivers. for this, it needs the leopard dvd. i have the disk image as both dmg and iso, but they're 6-7gb big. this means i cant put them on the windoze fat32 partition. i cant have them on the hfs partition because windows cant read it.

i need to be able to mount the leopard dvd image in windows but i cant for the life of me figure out a way. i cant burn it either, my dvd burner doesnt do dual layer as i have the first gen macbook. what do i do?! can my superdrive even read dual layer? (i dont know much about this)

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For some reason i cant connect to the itunes store, im getting the error message:

"Itunes could not connect to the Itunes store. The host is down. Make sure your network connection is active and try again"

My network is active, otherwise i wouldnt be posting this, so i thought maybe it was just for the fact that the itunes store might actually be down, so i went another computer i have and i works fine.

So now i dont know why i cant get on the itunes store, im assuming its something to do with ports being blocked for some reason ? If so how do i unblock them.

EDIT: Heres that xbench thing, bearing in mind this is only a Macbook!

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EDIT EDIT: Yup Tomm you were right, it was blocking port 80, yet for some reason managing to block the itunes store only and not any other webpage, i have no idea why either as i havent changed anything.

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wanting wireless for internet and printer, or HD storage.

do i pick up an airport extreme base station cheaply (£60-70 new) and hook up device.

or do i get leopard and a time capsule (£199 for 500gb)

also.. anyone know of any issues of wireless printing ?

another point.. is leopard worth the extra features for the extra space it uses?

cheers

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wanting wireless for internet and printer, or HD storage.

do i pick up an airport extreme base station cheaply (£60-70 new) and hook up device.

or do i get leopard and a time capsule (£199 for 500gb)

also.. anyone know of any issues of wireless printing ?

another point.. is leopard worth the extra features for the extra space it uses?

cheers

I've got wireless printing via my PC which was a bit of a faff to set up (although I don't know if that's more because of the Windows machine) but it's very robust now and works really well. If you're into double-sided printing, that won't work over wireless and I'm not sure about borderless photo printing either. I think you're asking about connecting a printer directly to the router though, right?

Apple routers are a bit of a rip off to be honest. You can get much things much cheaper but they might not be so elegant. For example get a normal router (£50 ish) and a 500gb NAS with printer support (£100 ish?). But you'll have wired networking too, and you'll be able to access the hard drive from other computers, and have a printer AND hard drive. I think there's a hack to run Time Machine from a network drive now too.

Leopard is good, well worth it IMO. For me it's just a lot of the little things that make it better than Tiger. Time Machine is OK but not all that amazing (I can do backups fine on my own without a stupid animation) but the changes to Finder and Mail alone are worth the upgrade.

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Id like to run mail to use my hotmail account. Ive had a few goes at setting it up, managed to get it so I could send outgoing emails, but not get any incoming ones. Anyone know if A, it can work with a hotmail account and B, has a guide to make it work?

Cheers

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Id like to run mail to use my hotmail account. Ive had a few goes at setting it up, managed to get it so I could send outgoing emails, but not get any incoming ones. Anyone know if A, it can work with a hotmail account and B, has a guide to make it work?

Cheers

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/emai...mailplugin.html

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Typing from my new Macbook Pro, I'm the newest member of the Apple clan.

Be prepared for a million questions, starting with:

When looking on finder, one time my PC desktop came up and I could share files between the two, which was awesome. Now it doesn't come up anymore though, I've tried restarting both computers, any ideas?

Also, anyone got a broken stones invite?:P

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Typing from my new Macbook Pro, I'm the newest member of the Apple clan.

Be prepared for a million questions, starting with:

When looking on finder, one time my PC desktop came up and I could share files between the two, which was awesome. Now it doesn't come up anymore though, I've tried restarting both computers, any ideas?

Also, anyone got a broken stones invite?:P

Don't tell me you've just bought a MBP?

The new ones ship in like... 4 days :(

Oh and f**k torrents, its all about rapidshare and knowing the right forums!!

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