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Is $107 a good price for Apple OSX v10.4 "Tiger"?
It lists for $129, so yes.
Are they going to come out with an even spiffier newer OS this summer/soon?
They'll be announcing the next version in June. It won't come out until late fall at the earliest.
I'm looking at this deal on a Western Digital 320GB Serial ATA hard drive: [link]
At the bottom, it says, IMPORTANT: Because of the time-limited error recovery feature, this product is intended for server applications and is not recommended for use in desktop systems.
Wazzat mean?
IMPORTANT: Because of the time-limited error recovery feature, this product is intended for server applications and is not recommended for use in desktop systems.
It's not meant to play back multimedia?
Dunno.
I have a similar WD 320GB SATA drive in my home computer...
...and it works perfectly. I was thinking it might be the same drive, but it's not.
Maybe if I buy Tiger, I will be able to placate the part of my brain that keeps whispering to me that I could afford a new iBook.
I'm not sure what that means. I've also not used a WD drive in years. I had a series of them fail on me at one point and I jumped over to the Seagate Barracuda line and I've never looked back.
I was thinking it might be the same drive, but it's not.
RE vs. SE? WTF?
I jumped over to the Seagate Barracuda line and I've never looked back.
It's not a Barracuda, but this Seagate is bigger with roughly the same cost per gig as the WD drive.
I have WD (and Maxtor and Seagate) at home and work and they have worked great. Actually, I haven't had a hard drive fail in a really long time. I have 2.5GB drives that still work but I just don't have a use for anymore.
I know there's freeware out there that will let you create a PDF from a Word doc. Is there anything that goes in reverse? Approximately three thousand of the source documents for my new project are PDFs, and my life would be a lot easier if they were editable.