We have Load Shedding here in South Africa where our power is cut for 21/2 hours at a time. It is driving me mad. Can anyone please tell me how to download some free movies onto my MacBook. (Please note I need an idiots guide!).
Thanks
MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
The problem most likely lies in the file size of a movie. It''s usually in the GB range.
The larger the file size, the longer they take to download and in most cases the download times out before it can finish especially in a situation where power is interrupted for extended times.
It would also depend on your internet conenction download speeds.
You can check your download speed here > http://www.speedtest.net
Anything less than 5Mbps, you're going to have a difficult time downloading movies even with power.
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Try a Google search (or your search engine of choice) for movies you can watch right online without downloading.
Thanks Carolyn but what I am actually trying to do is download some movies BEFORE the load shedding so that I can watch on my laptop when the power is off as then I have no internet connection but do have my battery. The problem is however that as you pointed out when I try and do it my downloads fail before completion and I thought maybe there was a better way to do it since I am new to this.
Get on a streaming movie service. There are several that you pay for, and those at least you don't have to download the entire movie. I recommend upgrading to at least Mac OS X 10.6.8
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
As a lot of stuff is not as compatible with 10.5.8 as 10.6.8. Beyond that, older software drops in compatibility a lot.
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