Re: Maccies get 1 right
- From: ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:53:37 -0500
In article <I6SdnaMZcL5SzsTUnZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ZnU wrote:
In article <JpidnbYra_9xH8XUnZ2dnUVZ_vCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Steve de Mena <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ZnU wrote:
I suspect Windows Media Player doesn't quite know what to do inDriver issues....so if I booted my Mac Pro with my MacBook Pro
this instance because Microsoft doesn't anticipate boot drives
being moved between computers much. It's an annoying thing to do
with the driver issues in Windows land. Mac users sort of take it
for granted, so Apple probably designs with it in mind.
startup drive, I wouldn't have issues seeing my two external eSATA
drive enclosures connected to the Mac Pro (which I had to install
drivers for)?
For some third-party hardware you might need to install a driver,
of course. That isn't really what's under discussion here. (Well,
except in the sense that Windows is at a disadvantage because *all*
hardware is third-party hardware.)
I'm assuming from the fact that Tom spent two hours installing
drivers that Windows needed him to install drivers for a lot of
internal OEM-provided system components, as is typical when moving
boot drives between Windows systems. This is really annoying. There
are a bunch of them -- many more than most people have separate
peripherals. Even savvy users won't automatically know what models
they are, if they're using off-the-shelf systems, and it's not
always trivial to find out. And, of course, you're typically trying
to do the work of tracking down and installing drivers on what's
still a half-functional system, since you haven't got them all
installed yet.
(Incidentally, I find it sort of hilarious that Apple makes it
easier to install all the right Windows drivers on a Mac than it is
with most OEM's Windows boxes.)
They are builtin (pre-installed on an OEM system).
Usually. I've seen cases where this isn't entirely true. Given the
frequency with which OEMs swap hardware around in many of their model
lines, it isn't too surprising the system image doesn't always have the
right drivers.
If that guy's HP had an OEM copy of Windows he wasn't even eligible
to transfer the hard drive to another system.
The new system presumably had a valid Windows license, and it's not
entirely clear that preventing transfers of OEM software from one
machine to another by the end user is legally enforceable anyway.
There's a strong argument that it's protected fair use.
This is another reason to be a Mac user, though: less draconian license
agreements.
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