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<blockquote data-quote="novicew" data-source="post: 280236" data-attributes="member: 14781"><p>It all depends on which Mac you choose to buy. If you deceided to buy a Mac Pro there are hundrends of different combinations of hardware you could choose from where as with a Mini you may be able to upgrade just the memory and the HD. Unlike with PCs you are not encouraged to do complicated upgrades yourself(Except MacBooks) for guarantee reasons. The upgrade possibilities are certainly not as much as with PCs. </p><p></p><p></p><p>There is no need of partitioning unless you want to have a Windows partition. OS X do the defregmenting on the fly. You are better off having all your data in one partition than having it scattered in different partitions. (It is not easy to resize the partitions at a later stage)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes. They some of them are different but getting used to them is really easy.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Refer to <a href="http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459" target="_blank">link1</a> or <a href="http://www.finiteloops.com/comment.php?comment.news.9" target="_blank">link2</a></p><p></p><p></p><p>You shouldn't get rid of any Mac core components unless you are sure of its effect on other components. However IMO Dashboard widgets eats up lot of memory(roughly 5mb each). If you don't need they, you can shut them off. Setting up an ultimate desktop entirely depends on your personal taste. Get the feel of OS X and you will learn things in no time. If you are adventurous, create a test user and do all the experiments by loging in to that account. That way you wont distroy the core components.</p><p></p><p>Good luck with your purchase!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="novicew, post: 280236, member: 14781"] It all depends on which Mac you choose to buy. If you deceided to buy a Mac Pro there are hundrends of different combinations of hardware you could choose from where as with a Mini you may be able to upgrade just the memory and the HD. Unlike with PCs you are not encouraged to do complicated upgrades yourself(Except MacBooks) for guarantee reasons. The upgrade possibilities are certainly not as much as with PCs. There is no need of partitioning unless you want to have a Windows partition. OS X do the defregmenting on the fly. You are better off having all your data in one partition than having it scattered in different partitions. (It is not easy to resize the partitions at a later stage) Yes. They some of them are different but getting used to them is really easy. Refer to [url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459]link1[/url] or [url=http://www.finiteloops.com/comment.php?comment.news.9]link2[/url] You shouldn't get rid of any Mac core components unless you are sure of its effect on other components. However IMO Dashboard widgets eats up lot of memory(roughly 5mb each). If you don't need they, you can shut them off. Setting up an ultimate desktop entirely depends on your personal taste. Get the feel of OS X and you will learn things in no time. If you are adventurous, create a test user and do all the experiments by loging in to that account. That way you wont distroy the core components. Good luck with your purchase! [/QUOTE]
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