Help With a mac!

[LongVodka]

Yeah yeah, I've gone to the dark side and I'm a mac user!

so don't hate or give crappy answers!

But seriously, my iBook laptop has literally ran out of memory and yeah I'm gonna get a external hard drive (someone explain what that actually does) probably cause of all the songs ive got on my itunes that's taken up space but a wee while ago a window popped up and said if i wanted to do something about a start up disc?

What the hell is that? and if I do this would it totally wipe everything i've got from memory? or does it crate more space and keep everything?

need help big time!

[ChuckFickens]

LOL macs are good computers so i'm not gonna have a go at you for that, though in this instance the questions you've asked it's irrelevant that you have a mac

OK first off you seem to be a little confused about memory and hard drive space. see link below for an explanation

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Comp uters/Question579000.html

OK so yes if you have a lot of music it probably is all your Itunes music that has filled up your hard drive, an external hard drive is just as it sounds, a hard drive that is in separate box that you connect to your computer via USB which would let you move some of the information on your internal hard drive over onto it and therefore freeing up space on the internal one

The popup you got was probably advising you you where getting low on space on your system (internal) hard drive and asking if you wanted to clean the drive up, this should remove any unused stuff and temporary files to free some space on the internal drive, it will not create more space and keep everything as thats not possible, the drive is a fixed size and can't get bigger.

When you get your external hard drive I would go through the system and move anything that you don't use on a regular basis onto the external drive (like I bet you don't use all you music on itunes all the time!) this should free up some space on the system drive and get the computer running smooth again.

[fo3nix]

Do you mean iBook or MacBook? (What does it say just below the screen?)

Click the apple logo top-left. Then click 'about this mac'.

What version of Mac OS X does it say (10.x.x)?
What memory does it say?

Then click more info button.

On the left towards the bottom of the Hardware section, there should be something like "Serial-ATA"... if you click that, there'll be somewhere to the right that says "Capacity: 111GB". What is this number?