Re: Maccies get 1 right


"Tim Murray" <no-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:48:47 -0500, Steve de Mena 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 in 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.
Driver issues....so if I booted my Mac Pro with my MacBook Pro 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).

Meh. Not always. I recounted here some time ago about my daughter's
replacement HP. Not only did it not have many proper drivers, even HP
support
could not identify the proper downloads. The serial number implied one set
of
driver, yet the physical processor called for a different set.

Liar.


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