Recent content by Kahless

Any usb keyboard will work, ditto for any mouse. Borrow one from a Windows user in your house if there are any or ask a neighbor. It'll take 3 minutes to get your Mac back to normal.

Budget wise, the white MacBook is best. You can get it under $900 at the Apple education website store. For $250 more though, if you can afford it, the 13" MacBook Pro is better.

Budget wise, the white MacBook is best. You can get it under $900 at the Apple education website store. For $250 more though, if you can afford it, the 13" MacBook Pro is better.

Run the disk utility program on the MacOS X DVD that came with it. Use it to repair the hard disk and repair the permissions.

If for some reason you do not have MacOS X on your MacBook, and you somehow removed MacOS X, the only way to put it back on is with a DVD of MacOS X. You'd have to erase whatever you have on the MacBook now, reinstall the right & better software (MacOS X) and then reinstall all the other...

Bootcamp allows you to partition the Mac hard drive and install a legal copy of Windows on it (which you have to buy). You then have both MacOS X and Windows on the Mac. When you start it up, you chose which operating system you want the Mac to run in. With Bootcamp, it's one or the other. With...

1. No it will not crossover and affect the Mac side. There are no current MacOS X viruses, and the Windows variety will not affect it. 2. I believe you have to reformat the whole hard drive and reinstall all the software to reclaim the partition you would use for a Windows install.

The disk utility program (First Aid) requires you to have the original MacOS X DVD inserted in the disk drive and have restarted the Mac while holding down the "c" key, to get the full capabilities of it. I'd try that. You won't be installing any thing, just using the app on the DVD.

You must have most of your hard drive full and the system software and other needed applications are taking up most of it. Partitioning takes up a lot of the hard drive space.

Ohio University.

Adobe requires the browser to be off, not just closed, to install FlashPlayer. Try and download it again, it'll give you the option of Adobe shutting down Safari and then installing the FlashPlayer. Let it do it.