Re: Most mice not compatible with MacTels... "Lot of hardware will not work"


George Graves wrote:
In article <1139343180.913221.158230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Tim Crowley" <timmyturmoil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

George Graves wrote:
In article <6gehu1dsf5sr13gecog14rqdfjjhoerbh8@xxxxxxx>,
Stew <antwun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We've received several reports from readers whoa re having issues with
third-party input devices connected to Intel-based Macs.

MacFixIt reader Mike reports an issue with his Logitech mouse:

"My Logitech mouse is not compatible with my new dual core iMac. i
have been told by Logitech a lot of hardware will not work. I have
also read that keyboards and mice from all third party manufactures
will also not function properly."

It appears that Logitech's drivers are currently incompatible with
Intel-based Macs, along with drivers from most other manufacturers.

http://macfixit.com/

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Again, as I predicted. Rosetta doesn't work at the driver level, and
unless a peripheral device like a mouse or trackball or printer or a
scanner works with Apple's built-in drivers, its simply not going to
work. People who buy Intel-Macs this year, next year, or even the year
after, are asking for trouble and frustration. I'm not trying to be a
wet blanket, here, I'm just warning you. The Intel Macs are simply NOT
ready for prime-time and a second or third generation incarnation of
these new machines will work better, have decent support, and cause a
lot fewer headaches for their owners. Believe me, I've been down this
road before - twice (68K to PPC, and OS9 to OSX), and its frustrating.
Heck, I'd been using OSX for almost two years before I could print, and
longer than that before I could scan color slides.

Heh, I was doing both with the 1st Beta. damn.

I don't know how you got your slide scanner to work that early-on, but
its true that if one had a Postscript printer, the first Beta would
print to it. But at the time, I had a non-Postscript NEC laser printer
and it and OSX couldn't even see each other and my other printer, an
Epson Photo-EX wide-carriage never did get an OSX driver. I had to wait
for Apple to start including GIMPrint/CUPS with the OS before I use that
again.

yeah, I do recall quite a but of driver issues early on - i didn't know
any lasted two years....

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