you should be able to read an ntfs hard drive, but it will only write to fat and ext3 or whatever the linux partition is called these days! I managed to read ntfs, only way to access my mp3's, you might be better of getting a hard drive install and partitioning (I found it easier to get two hdd's and make one for bindoze and one for linux) I've never used a mac really, well a few times in the shop, so don't know what to expect lol!