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<blockquote data-quote="dhmmjoph" data-source="post: 1522489" data-attributes="member: 276211"><p>Assuming your external drives are formatted as NTFS, as far as I know, OS X will be able to read the drive but not write to it without third-party software. A workaround I used was to copy all the contents of my external drive to my Mac's internal hard drive, reformat the external drive as HFS+ using Disk Utility, and copying the contents back to the external drive. As far as actually opening the files, you shouldn't have any problem there; though I'm not sure how Firefox saves web pages, it would make sense that the OSX version of Firefox could open those files.</p><p></p><p>In my experience, using an iPad does not help all that much as far as getting a feel for how OS X works. A number of multitouch gestures are physically similar, but they do different things across platforms (for example, the same physical gesture, an inward pinching with four fingers, shows the home screen on an iPad and launchpad on OS X).</p><p></p><p>Another thing to remember is that you can always install a copy of Windows 7 or 8 on your mac using Boot Camp Assistant if OS X isn't quite your thing or for playing that combat flight simulator you like. I remember hearing reports of less-than-ideal support for resolution scaling under windows on retina MacBook Pro models, but that was some time ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dhmmjoph, post: 1522489, member: 276211"] Assuming your external drives are formatted as NTFS, as far as I know, OS X will be able to read the drive but not write to it without third-party software. A workaround I used was to copy all the contents of my external drive to my Mac's internal hard drive, reformat the external drive as HFS+ using Disk Utility, and copying the contents back to the external drive. As far as actually opening the files, you shouldn't have any problem there; though I'm not sure how Firefox saves web pages, it would make sense that the OSX version of Firefox could open those files. In my experience, using an iPad does not help all that much as far as getting a feel for how OS X works. A number of multitouch gestures are physically similar, but they do different things across platforms (for example, the same physical gesture, an inward pinching with four fingers, shows the home screen on an iPad and launchpad on OS X). Another thing to remember is that you can always install a copy of Windows 7 or 8 on your mac using Boot Camp Assistant if OS X isn't quite your thing or for playing that combat flight simulator you like. I remember hearing reports of less-than-ideal support for resolution scaling under windows on retina MacBook Pro models, but that was some time ago. [/QUOTE]
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