Subj : Re: Running linux in vm o
To   : Derision
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Oct 24 2018 08:37 am

  Re: Re: Running linux in vm o
  By: Derision to Nightfox on Tue Oct 23 2018 05:02 pm

 De> They definitely included that, which I discovered when I got an external
 De> blu-ray burner (it was on sale, and cheaper than the DVD versions). And
 De> there in my burning software was the full whatever giggage that a blu-ray
 De> holds. I eventually swapped the DVD drive in my MacBook Pro for a blu-ray
 De> just for the burning, though I don't use it enough to really justify it,
 De> so it might eventually be a second HD in there.

Yeah, I bought a laptop several years ago, and I opted to have them put in a
2nd hard drive in place of the optical drive (it was an option with Lenovo)
since I don't use optical drives a whole lot in a PC anymore.  My desktop has a
blu-ray burner that I put in it when I built it though, and these days I do use
it sometimes for ripping music and movies.  I still have a bunch of burnable
DVD-Rs, CD-Rs, and blu-ray writeable discs, and I've thought of using some of
them for backups.  Sometimes I still feel like a backup on an optical disc is
more secure than a backup on a hard drive, because files on a hard drive could
be deleted accidentally, whereas a backup on an optical disc is permanent.

 De> Since the switch to Intel, though, Macs are now just like any old PC. I am
 De> not sure about cramming better video cards in the trashcan Mac Pro, just
 De> because of the weird shape and maybe the cards need to be low profile or
 De> somehow otherwise mangled to fit, but the previous generation of towered
 De> Mac Pro should be able to handle any standard video card, assuming there
 De> are drivers for it available. 

Yeah, the problem is finding drivers.  I'm not sure if hardware makers for Mac
make drivers that you can install like on Windows.

Nightfox

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