umm I'm not sure if I really want to download limewire to a mac.
everyone says its pretty safe, but i'm not sure?

very curious to know how much of my hardrive space it would require to use.

LimeWire itself doesn't take up much space about 18.5MB on Windows, I am not sure about MAC but it couldn't be much more. Now the files that you download with LimeWire could be a different story. The average music file is about 4.5MB so 100 would be 45MB 1000 would be 4.5GB. Movie Files could be anywhere from 50MB to 2GB. And software and Games can be anywhere from 5MB to 5GB so you see it all depends on how you use LimeWire as to how much space it takes.

As far as LimeWire Being safe it is only as safe as the person using it. There are Virus and spyware files on the Gnutella net but if you do a little reading and educate yourself before using it is very safe. And having a MAC will help in the Virus department.

Hope this helps below are a couple of links you may want to read.

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=58603

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showthread.php?t=56692

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no Grandpa, you'r wrong, Mac just patched more than 150 bugs on it's X os just about a month ago, all of them were undiscovered till Mac started it's clasical defamation campaign to the investigator who tracked down the bugs, so they revealed all of the 150 or more bugs in the OS to everyone, and now, any system that is not updated will be so risky to handle

I have not heard nor read anything about that yet. Perhaps you can point us to a credible article about it.

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"Toda una sorpresa: en un reciente estudio de Symantec se ha demostrado que durante la segunda mitad de 2006 el sistema operativo más seguro fue Windows, por delante de sus principales competidores. Red Hat quedó en segundo lugar, mientras que MacOS X ocupó la tercera posición. Para llegar a estas conclusiones se estudiaron el número de vulnerabilidades aparecidas durante esos 6 últimos meses de 2006, pero también el tiempo que las empresas tardaban en corregirlas. Por cierto, HP-UX y Solaris, fatal."

Translation:

A total surprise: A recent Symantec study has demonstrated that for the second half of 2006 the most safe OS was Windows, followed by Red Hat Linux and Mac OS X, for arriving to those conclusions, symantec studied the number of vulnerabilities found on the Os's the last 6 months and how much time does the companies waited to fix them.

I've missed the link to the story, but maybe the upper post help