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Question: i have a mavericks (pre-unibod) mac book pro. what features would appeal to me?
Answer: i have a 4tb seagate drive that is formatted in HFS. if i plug it into the usb port of my raspberry pi it quickly displays in the file manager in xbian. exfat also works on a 32GB hp memory stick in the raspberry pi usb port.

Question: why is this interesting?
Answer: It's currently uncommon for afforable formats to support these formats.

Question: can i see my raspberry pi from my marackicks computer?
answer: if i open finder in os mavericks i can see 'xbian' in the sidebar on the left under shared. through this i can see the 4tb hfs drive connected to the pi. therefore i can use finder to see files on the hfs formatted 4tb external hard drive connected to raspberry pi.

Question: what was your experience in using a mavricks machine to get xbian working on a pi.
Answers: quickly to cover the basics, you meed a mac, a sd port, a 2gb+ sd card, and the xbian osx install software. run the xbian install software on your mac, and it will have a drop drop down box to show the attached drives. select your sd card and and the install-software and it will download xbian and make it bootable on your sd card when you install it in your raspberry pi.

Question: what if i want the usb drive to be connected to my mac.
Answer: well if you use a dlna media server like ps3 media sever or tvmobili. it will display under file manager in upnp.

Question: oh, so lots of 'stuff' to do?
Answer: the upnp setting in xbian will allow the usb drive to be seen in a good upnp/dlna app on andriod phone. i use one and i can select files from my usb drive on my xbian through an app on my phone.

Question: have you pushed your xbian?
Answer: i have run a 10gb 1080p movie from mac over ethernet to xbian on my pi and it never stuttered.