Mac, Linux and Flash?

Austin W

I'm going to buy a mac, the mid 2012 13 inch, non retina. i have been finding some stuff out and its been raising questions. one i cannot store anything on my current computer so its all on an external HD. I'm running ubuntu 10.04 so one issue, will mac OS X mountain lion read the hard drive at all? I found that all the file types are compatible except .odt and .mkv which i can convert all of them and I'm almost finished I just found an app for the .mkv videos. Also i watch a lot of anime.

So here is question 1 : will may favourite sites like youtube, anime44, anime shipuudden, fanfiction.net and anime seed all load quickly and will i be able to stream the flash videos?

Question 2: will I be able to open my external hard drive and copy everything to the mac without having to format and loose all 200GB of my precious data?

Answer
The answer to both questions is yes. If the drive is formatted as Ext2/Ext3 then these utilities will do the job:
http://osxfuse.github.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse-ext2/

You can also just mount the drive across the network and copy data that way.

Should I go with internal or external Hard Drive?

Jake

I am talking about the late 2012 Mac mini (2.3 ghz). I can't decide wether I should install a second drive inside the machine or just go with a USB 3.0 External Hard Drive. The second drive will be mostly for time machine backups and maybe some other stuff. Thanks!

Answer
For backups it's always a good idea to have them physically separate from the machine. In case something happens with the laptop or it gets stolen, the internal drive would be lost too.

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