I’m buying a Macbook. Is it easy to load file from a PC – ie MP3 files? I don’t understand file systems (FAT32 and HFS+) – will there be a compatability issue?

Thanks

Paul

You can connect to windows shares no problem.

No, no issue.

Copy from the PC to a flash drive or USB hard disk with FAT32 then plug that into the mac, it will see it and use it OK. macs can read NTFS and read/write FAT32.

Great – thanks

share a folder on your pc

on the mac apple k, then connect via your pc’s ip address whatever that is (smb://10.0.0.2, you’ll need the smb bit).

You can automatically load this folder in your system prefs>accounts>startup items(just drag the server into there once you’ve got it loaded up, allow keychain.)

Then you’ve got a folder on your pc and mac that will easily transfer files between both, assuming you a network setup.

There will be very few compataibilty issues, fonts will be your main one on documents. but even then ttf files, work on mac and pc generally.

mp3’s will be fine and video will be fine as long as you use a player like VLC that comes with it’s own codecs.

Yes, unlike PC’s mac’s rarely have compatibility issues. Unless you’re trying to get it to talk to a PC of course..