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    A Few Questions

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Gclown, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. Gclown

    Gclown Notebook Consultant

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    1: What is the best way that I should go about cleaning the grime that has accumulated on my keyboard? Its getting really nasty and I dont want to damage my pretty MBP.

    2: Im thinking of purchasing an external hard drive for memory back up, extra storage, etc. How hard is it to partition it evenly between mac and pc? (i think fat32 and ntfs? I dont know much about formatting)

    3: Anyone here familiar with Java and mac? Recently the game that I play (Runescape ;) ) was updated and now is pretty graphics intensive but extremely reliant on Java being up to date. I have tried this game on both my windows and mac partition and it runs 100% smooth on XP and 90% choppy (low fps) on Leopard. Any thoughts/comments?

    Lots of questions feel free to answer one or them all :D
     
    Gclown, Jul 5, 2008
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  2. Underpantman

    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

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    1) I personally use 70% ethanol on a cloth. I work in a lab so I have that handy. It dries very quick and is great for getting rid of grime. I'm not sure how well this would work on a mbp though, and not sure how "good" it is, but I've been doing it for ~2 years now on my mb with no prob's.

    2) Disk utility is great for partitioning your drive, although it will only do FAT32. That said for an external backup drive there isn't any huge advantage in going for NTFS over FAT32, esp as mac cannot read/write to NTFS (without 3d party apps).

    3) Java is there and fairly upto date, but you must wait for apple to update it and include it as part of the software updates, so it could be just a waiting game for apple to do so, esp as 10.5.4 was just released, so it could be a few months until 10.5.5.

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    Underpantman, Jul 5, 2008
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  3. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    It's really easy. Just do it through disk utility.
     
    stealthsniper96, Jul 5, 2008
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  4. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    i would format the external HDD partition for a Mac if you are using it only on a mac, or even formatting the entire drive for a Mac and using MacDrive on the PC, as it works incredibly well.
     
    circa86, Jul 6, 2008
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