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Pick the install option and see what happens. It will not install anything to your hard drive until you tell it to. The menus will ask for your locale, keyboard type, language, etc. and then you should end up at a usable desktop with an "Install" …
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The combo drive is a CD-RW/DVD-R drive. It cannot burn DVDs at all (single or dual layer). iMac specs are here and they do confirm that it'll burn DL discs.
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This link seems to indicate that the install option will dump you into a Live desktop. Which version of Ubuntu did you download? If it's not a "Desktop" CD, then you do not have the Live functionality.
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If that's all she's using it for, then the only advantage the MacBook Pro will have for her is the larger screen (15.4" vs. 13.3" of the MacBook). I would also recommend the latest generation (Core 2 Duo) MacBook.
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If it's MPEG-2, then it's not VCD...
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You can put as many disk images on the external drive as will fit.
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Thanks for the links... my wife does party and event planning and heavily relies on Print Shop and similar apps on Windows for designing invites, signs, etc. Maybe we can finally move her over to Mac
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No, CCC (and SuperDuper, which is what I use) will create an exact clone of your boot drive onto an external Firewire drive. This drive will be bootable. I believe you can also create sparse disk images (.dmg files) with CCC. They're not bootab…
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You can boot from the backup/cloned hard disk (*), not image (those aren't bootable). Use CCC to put the image back onto the main drive. (*) the backup image is not a backup when you only have one copy. I typically make two copies- one to a spa…
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Check your system time and time zone within the Parallels virtual machine... MSN Messenger has a secure authentication procedure that is picky if the system clock is off.
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Regardless... what sense is there in spending the nearly the same on an iBook than you would for a MacBook?
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Did you check adobe.com? http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/systemreqs/
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I never understood the startup time of an application being any indication of the app's performance... I was not implying that existing G4 owners throw them away and buy Intel Macs, but to buy a G4 now seems illogical.
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The screen quality alone on the MacBook vs. the dim, blah screen of the iBook is definitely worth it... however it's the original poster's decision, we're just trying to tell them they might be happier with the new model.
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This question reminded me of a Simpson's quote: Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? Lisa: No. Homer: Ham? Lisa: No. Homer: Pork chops? Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal. Hom…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KiNGME Also, what do you use to combine files (like file.avi.001, .002...)? You mean like "cat file.avi.00* >file.avi" from a shell prompt?
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I don't think you're going to convince many people that a G4 was a wise purchase right now... software companies are already dropping support for PPC and this trend will undoubtedly continue while PPC hardware ages more. Hopefully you got a smok…
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Any running Mapsource under XP on Parallels? That's what I was going to try next...
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Garmin announced officially at MWSF '06 that they'd have their software available on OS X by the end of '06. Obviously that didn't happen (barring the apps for their trainer GPSes). This is the first update on their OS X progress we've seen since.…