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Running debate over pc software.
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Basically, I want to buy The Sims 2 for our family Mac, but my step-dad says no-way, it'll take up too much space (even though hes got about a trillion music and photoshop thingys on here he doesn't use). He says that if I got it, I'd have to either save it to a disc, and insert that everytime I played, or uninstall and reinstall it everytime. :impissed: I've told him I can't do that - the game has to be saved to the hard-drive in order to work. Am I right?
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Perhaps you could get a USB hard drive and install onto that - should be around 60 quid
The more practical solution would be to put photos and music on the USB external hard drive. It becomes portable, if the computer goes down for whatever reason, those precious files are not harmed and can be retrieved easily from another computer.
Please guys keep to the subject of the sims 2 and how much space it takes not the poor guys age!
p.s 23 or even 30 is not that old!!!
Adam (Mod)
da0: <IBM DPES-31080 S31Q> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 1034MB
da3: <SEAGATE ST5660N 0592> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da3: 520MB
as for hard-drive space already... we have an eMac with Mac OS X, and 256 MB of memory left.
I've got an old ps2 so i'll look into what its like on that. its a shame my old sim games only work on windows :impissed:
Ooh. lol.
I have an 80 and 20 gig, both over half full... how do you live with that?!
I need bigger drives. I am such a pirate whore.
a 75% full 80 gig hard drive, which is the one with windows on
and external 120gig which is about 40% full
and i just burnt about 40gig of dvd+r discs
MrG... Jesus.. how do you use up that kindof space?! Do you uninstall nothing? I wish I could.
i make sure i have a programme fully installed, so i dont need discs, cause its pretty annoying asking to insert a disc when both optical drives are in use through cd/dvd burning
a lot of it is music and downloaded tv