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Rapid Fire Q & A for new Mac owner (to be)
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<blockquote data-quote="Discerptor" data-source="post: 741169" data-attributes="member: 12177"><p>1) Your TV is definitely not higher than 1080p resolution, so yes the MacBook will work with it.</p><p></p><p>2) OS X can read/write both NTFS and FAT32, though writing to the former requires installing MacFUSE and the associated NTFS driver. It can read Ext3 but only write to Ext2, though I think if you use Samba, dropboxes will work anyway. Samba is perfectly usable as a protocol for sharing files between Mac, Windows and Linux.</p><p></p><p>3) You can triple-boot Windows, Linux and Mac quite easily, but not with Boot Camp alone. You'll want to look for the project called rEFIt. There's a very detailed explanation of how to triple-boot with Ubuntu that will pop up immediately if you do a simple Google search. The same process should apply to whatever distro you're using.</p><p></p><p>4) Strictly speaking, any keyboard and mouse will work, but whether you get the full functionality out of them (media buttons, etc.) depends on whether they have software written for Mac. Even if they don't, though, there are certain projects like USB Overdrive that get around that issue and make any USB/Bluetooth device work for your Mac with full button customisability anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Discerptor, post: 741169, member: 12177"] 1) Your TV is definitely not higher than 1080p resolution, so yes the MacBook will work with it. 2) OS X can read/write both NTFS and FAT32, though writing to the former requires installing MacFUSE and the associated NTFS driver. It can read Ext3 but only write to Ext2, though I think if you use Samba, dropboxes will work anyway. Samba is perfectly usable as a protocol for sharing files between Mac, Windows and Linux. 3) You can triple-boot Windows, Linux and Mac quite easily, but not with Boot Camp alone. You'll want to look for the project called rEFIt. There's a very detailed explanation of how to triple-boot with Ubuntu that will pop up immediately if you do a simple Google search. The same process should apply to whatever distro you're using. 4) Strictly speaking, any keyboard and mouse will work, but whether you get the full functionality out of them (media buttons, etc.) depends on whether they have software written for Mac. Even if they don't, though, there are certain projects like USB Overdrive that get around that issue and make any USB/Bluetooth device work for your Mac with full button customisability anyway. [/QUOTE]
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