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Escobar

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I'm thinking to buy the new mac air notebook. Now I watch all United games via Sopcast and I heard that this program is only for Windows. How do you watch United games and is it generally a problem to watch the games via streams? Otherwise, I'd buy a HP or an IBM notebook, as this is an importent criteria for me.

Cheers
 
Do you not have a Windows PC already? If you do, you could use it as a media server, TVersity can stream SOPCast over DLNA. I do this to watch on the big TV through the PS3. All you would need is a DLNA client on the Mac.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Do you not have a Windows PC already? If you do, you could use it as a media server, TVersity can stream SOPCast over DLNA. I do this to watch on the big TV through the PS3. All you would need is a DLNA client on the Mac.
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I am not an IT specialist. Do you have a good link where I can read more about that? As I have a PS3 and a big TV, I'd prefer to watch the games through the PS3
 
Escobar said:
I'm thinking to buy the new mac air notebook. Now I watch all United games via Sopcast and I heard that this program is only for Windows. How do you watch United games and is it generally a problem to watch the games via streams? Otherwise, I'd buy a HP or an IBM notebook, as this is an importent criteria for me.

Cheers
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There are some streams that work on a mac. But there's no guarantee the game you want will be on them.

I have an iMac but use dual boot and watch footy on Windows. I'm guessing that's not an option for the mac air?
 
I've got the same thing as Pogue. Use windows for that sort of stuff.

Why the air though?
 
Pogue Mahone said:
There are some streams that work on a mac. But there's no guarantee the game you want will be on them.

I have an iMac but use dual boot and watch footy on Windows. I'm guessing that's not an option for the mac air?
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I wasnt sure if there are streams for mac but as I watch every game, I'll need a solution who works 100%.
 
McLovin said:
I've got the same thing as Pogue. Use windows for that sort of stuff.

Why the air though?
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You have to have a certain knowledge to use windows on the mac? I'm not an IT specialist at all...

Why not? I know there are more powerful macs but for my use it's not bad, nice design aswell... but maybe I'll go the easy route and just buy an HP or IBM
 
Escobar said:
You have to have a certain knowledge to use windows on the mac? I'm not an IT specialist at all...

Why not? I know there are more powerful macs but for my use it's not bad, nice design aswell... but maybe I'll go the easy route and just buy an HP or IBM
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No you don't mate, I just got someone to install windows on it. And then when you turn your computer on, you get to chose which system you want to use. Very easy thing to do.

I liked the design on the air, thought about buying it because it was so light and could help as I always carry it to college, but not having a CD reader thing, and being incredibly fragile (I'm quite clumsy), and quite expensive threw me off buying it.
 
McLovin said:
No you don't mate, I just got someone to install windows on it. And then when you turn your computer on, you get to chose which system you want to use. Very easy thing to do.
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I'm an utter spaz on computers and installed Windows myself, no bother.

You need a "dual-core" processor to run Windows and OSX though (I think) worth checking that the Mac Air can do this.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Do you not have a Windows PC already? If you do, you could use it as a media server, TVersity can stream SOPCast over DLNA. I do this to watch on the big TV through the PS3. All you would need is a DLNA client on the Mac.
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Isn't the quality of the sopcast picture on the big TV shocking?
 
I have trouble finding good streams for macs and theres no way i'm turning it into a PC. Bootcamp allows you to do that.
Heard of a program called Crossover, looks a bit shit to me though
 
When games that aren't shown on Sky Sports and ITV, I watch on streaming websites like Justin.tv and IraqGoals.

If you did want to use the likes of SopCast, just run Windows on your Mac. You've got the best of both worlds.
 
I use vmware fusion for my xp partition & i just load xp through there for any Sopcast stuff.
 
Sopcast is available for linux, there must be a mac version somewhere
 
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