[X Newbies] Partitioning Drive?

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 5:55p -0400 2003.05.20, Florin Alexander Neumann wrote:
>If you're a graphic designer or into music production or digital 
>video, or you need to host a massive database on your machine -- 
>you're not an average user and you need a different setup.

And if you're an absolute newbie who has a new iMac and a new DV 
camera - in other words, the typical user that Apple 
foresaw/created/enticed? The "typical" user you envision is not 
necessarily the norm for the _new_ "newbie". The majority of existing 
users may well fit that profile, but more and more new users are 
entering the picture with little expert-ise and simple needs but 
those needs are tech-resource-hungry, so to speak. the Mac in its 
current incarnation has made the process simple. So I can readily 
shoot 45 mins of family life and elect to edit then burn that to DVD. 
But though iMovie has made the process straightforward and even 
enjoyable, the fact that large files are being generated has no 
direct relationship to the user's computing expertise. It is in fact 
more testimony to the capability of the hardware and correlates to 
the power of the underlying apps. The car driven testifies to the 
driver's credit-worthiness and the marque's engineers but says 
nothing about the driver's capabilities as a mechanic...
-- 
'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]