Re: Apple makes Macs run Windows XP

J. Clarke wrote:
G.T. wrote:


C J Southern wrote:


I don't know about you, but I give up - these "Mac radicals" live in
their own self-perpetuating alternate-reality. Totally oblivious to the
real world.

I'm not a Mac radical. Other than supporting our FCP edit stations at
work, and using my home Mac for iTunes and Photoshop I use OpenBSD on
this laptop. And when I'm forced to I use XP at home on my Dell D600
laptop that constantly loses it's wireless connection to my AP,
something that NEVER happens with my OpenBSD laptop or my Mac. The XP
wireless stack is the most braindead thing I have ever seen.


Are you sure that it's not a hardware problem?

Positive. I've used 4 different wireless cards on the two Windows XP machines and they all exhibit the same problem.

Further, why are you running
a wireless connection to your desktop?


Don't know what you're asking. I have my gf's XP desktop, my XP laptop that she uses, my OpenBSD laptop, and my Mac all connecting wirelessly to my AP.

Greg

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