That's enough now Flappo, you're not helping Simon in any way. The problem with Apple's forums is that generally they're over-moderated and seem to go 'by-the-book'. MacRumors is much better once you get used to what things are like over there as they know all the tricks and the best advise to give. Or alternatively, you can always drop me a PM/email

Flappo The Grate: you posted two links to supposed viruses and the mac the first was from an ms sponsored site who are obv 100% anti-apple and the second was 3 years old 20 million macs later and there's still no exploit that's damaged a mac in any way - your point is ? as for your It credentials - big deal - in the mac world , we're all

This issue occurs when the input and output are wired the wrong way round. I've noticed the same thing on all my BeoMasters...

MacRumors is better as there's no 'company restrictions' like on the Apple forum, and it's actually kinda like a larger version of BeoWorld (except there are quite often issues with flamers and trolls but the mods do a pretty good job). I've got one of the Lacie Porsche design ones, portable 100 gb drive with Firewire and USB. Runs without any extra

One other thing I forgot to say... PC users often set it up so they have complete control over where all their files go. For example, ignoring iPhoto and just sitting the files in folders, and turning off iTunes' ability to manage your music folder and copy settings. Let the computer do that for you. Macs are very, very, very good at managing files

WMA files don't work in iTunes - WMA is Microsoft's format and I can't see them licensing it to Macs for quite a while. If you have a Windows machine available, you can drag the WMA files into iTunes and it will convert them (one thing you can't easily do under OS X). Apple, rather strangely, decided to remove the Apple icon from the new wireless keyboards

Oh no there was nothing wrong with Simon's reply. The issue is that people get so used to one OS (Windows) that when they switch, the kinda react against it. It's happened to a couple of people I helped get onto the Mac platform, and they straight away started hating it, but after a while and some good advise, they realised how much better Mac OS is

I've also had issues with hotmail in the past few days, just geting stuck in a continuous loop of redirecting. Nice one Microsoft! There was nothing wrong with the PowerPC (G) chips, they were actually the fastest chips around at the time, but they produced too much heat to go into laptops. Either way, when Apple switched to Intel it was the right move

True, it's not a lot of use for some people. However, one person I saw posting on MacRumors was working with distributed processing, and wanted to test his software before executing it on a large scale (as you would). The only easy way of doing this on a large number of machines is emulation, so he ended up getting a maxed-out MacPro and emulating 32

Actually I've had two instances of Windows XP, an instance of React OS, an instance of Ubuntu and an instance of Damn Small Linux all running at the same time (yes, simultaneously) on my MBP. I agree about the whole slinging match thing, but I still find the difference between Mac OS and Windows to be massive, even with Vista. My school is 100% PC based