If someone found a way to run KDE over the MacOS GUI I'd have kept my iBook anyway. Call me a freak, but I find the MacOS GUI horribly user inefficient.
Its not so much that as the error message, you can rip out flash no problem on MacOS (most of the time) but having to click "ok" evey time was just annoying to me, I'd be so used to just pulling it out of PC's I'd forget to do it on my iBook, I just feel flash memory should be hassel free, ther's no reason at all that Apple cant just give you an "optimise for removal" option too.
I agree that the USB on the iBook seemes funny, I think the non detecting part was more to do with generaly bad USB ports, I got the inpression that the iBooks USB was rather loose to be honest. Apart from that I cant realy fault the iBook hardware (but I dislike the OS, sorry guys).
Mac's are no way better at supporting USB Flash than Win XP
With Win XP write caching is disabled as default, what does this mean? Its unnoticeable slower but their is NO NEED AT ALL to "eject" or "safely remove" flash memory, as long as its finished writing you rip it out the port, that's it. Disable write caching and this can be the same for Windows 2000.
With MacOS you MUST "eject" or "trash" the flash disk, and if you don't do it right you get an annoying window EVERY TIME, Whats more I found my iBook had trouble detecting my flash disk, I had to put it in 2 or 3 times, and occasionally it demanded I repartition it???:(
In general flash memory take about 10 seconds the first time you plug them in, and after that they function almost instantaneous.
I have a freind who insits floppys "make fixing PC's easyer" but I was at his house last week, and it took him almost an hour of pissing about with them just to get the XP setup going, Why not just CD boot? He's crazy:p
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If someone found a way to run KDE over the MacOS GUI I'd have kept my iBook anyway. Call me a freak, but I find the MacOS GUI horribly user inefficient.
Its not so much that as the error message, you can rip out flash no problem on MacOS (most of the time) but having to click "ok" evey time was just annoying to me, I'd be so used to just pulling it out of PC's I'd forget to do it on my iBook, I just feel flash memory should be hassel free, ther's no reason at all that Apple cant just give you an "optimise for removal" option too. I agree that the USB on the iBook seemes funny, I think the non detecting part was more to do with generaly bad USB ports, I got the inpression that the iBooks USB was rather loose to be honest. Apart from that I cant realy fault the iBook hardware (but I dislike the OS, sorry guys).
Mac's are no way better at supporting USB Flash than Win XP
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With Win XP write caching is disabled as default, what does this mean? Its unnoticeable slower but their is NO NEED AT ALL to "eject" or "safely remove" flash memory, as long as its finished writing you rip it out the port, that's it. Disable write caching and this can be the same for Windows 2000.
With MacOS you MUST "eject" or "trash" the flash disk, and if you don't do it right you get an annoying window EVERY TIME, Whats more I found my iBook had trouble detecting my flash disk, I had to put it in 2 or 3 times, and occasionally it demanded I repartition it???
In general flash memory take about 10 seconds the first time you plug them in, and after that they function almost instantaneous.
I have a freind who insits floppys "make fixing PC's easyer" but I was at his house last week, and it took him almost an hour of pissing about with them just to get the XP setup going, Why not just CD boot? He's crazy