Sorry I should have explained things better, the Samsung is a good performing all round external portable DVD/CD/Blueray drive.
Not the most speedy drive around no but results are reliable. > On 22 Mar 2016, at 8:24 AM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Ah yeah true that. I have a Plextore 1. Can you tell me more about this > Samsung 1 though please? Off list if you wish. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane > Trethowan > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 5:00 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10 > > VLC can but Mac computers - to my knowledge - don't come wiht compatible > drives, certainly the one I'm using doesn't so I bought an external Samsung, > one of the best drives around at the moment by the way. > > > > On 22/03/2016 7:30 AM, Devin Prater wrote: >> Can't VLC handle blueray? >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 3:27 PM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> You're welcome dude. Yeah I'd love an IMac. They are epic. Like I >>> said too I use to know how to use 1. But as I didn't end up getting 1 I > got rusty. >>> The things that held me back are that at the time in 07 I was in >>> school still. So who knows how usefull it could have been. Next and >>> this 1 still persists, the Mac can't play Blu-Ray. That's a no go. I >>> don't bother with DVD any more. I'm a Blu-Ray guy all the way. >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>> Andy Logue >>> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 3:46 PM >>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows >>> 10 >>> >>> Hi Devon and Hamit. >>> >>> I've always wanted to check out a mac computer but because ive been >>> so brainwashed in Microsoft, I didn't have the self confidence to >>> try it out for myself. >>> >>> What I was thinking was to keep my old Windows machine active for my >>> mail and so on, but the Mac could sit alone in another room and if I >>> spend some time each day, then I should be able to grasp the basic? >>> eh? Especially if I joined a blind mac list. >>> >>> One thing I have already found out that my Imac Store, which is in >>> glasgow, will spend up to an hour with a new customer in the shop. >>> Perhaps they may be interessted in offering me a little more start-up >>> time, given my blindness? Worth checking out eh? >>> >>> Thanks for your ideas guys. For the meantime, I'm going to check out >>> everything I can on the Imac Retina on the webpage. >>> >>> Thanks again. >>> Andy. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Devin Prater" <d.pra...@me.com> >>> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 4:17 PM >>> Subject: Re: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows >>> 10 >>> >>> >>> Apple has a getting started guide, right when you turn on a new Mac. >>> Just wait a minute or two then follow the spoken instructions. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Hamit Campos <hamitcam...@gmail.com> > wrote: >>>> >>>> An IMac as in the Apple computer? If so there are Mac lists and >>>> stuff but you'd have to listen to a lot of podcasts and stuff >>>> because you must then now learn Mac OS. If I'm understanding the >>>> question correctly. I had learned Mac OS but I've gotten Rusty. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >>>> Andy Logue >>>> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 11:57 AM >>>> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >>>> Subject: Thinking seriously on an Imac rather than a new Windows 10 >>>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> I love everything audio concerning my computer. I've music, >>>> described movies and talking books and I use programmes such as >>>> Goldwave to record streaming music. I also love burning the odd CD >>>> for a friend and recently, I've purchased a Zoom H6 digital recorder >>>> for even more interesting audio work. >>>> >>>> Many of my friends, who are not blind are telling me to buy the new >>>> Imac Retina and plug that into my AV and sound system. >>>> >>>> Any members use Imac for this sort ofstuff and is there any support >>>> for a new comer like myself about. >>>> >>>> Any advice would be very much appriciated. >>>> >>>> Very best wishes. >>>> Andy. >>> >>> >>> >>> > > -- > > ********** > Those who don't need help are prepared to help themselves > > > > ********** Those of a positive and enquiring frame of mind will leave the rest of the halfwits in this world behind.
