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Doesn't integrate well? Not by my experience.

Posted by YuriS on 2005-05-04 00:19:33

In reply to Rob Enderle

I remember when one of our sections installed a Mac running OS X 10.1 at work, much to that Windowphile manager's annoyance. (He'd had to admit that colour management in Windows was inferior to Mac). There was a mix of surprise and horror as the system came "alive" and without prompting or configuration joined the LAN, placing icons of each server on the desktop, then accessed the network's broadband connection and waited for someone to register the hardware purchase. Scanner support was out of the box, but printer support required a download. I admit that's usually the reverse situation. Apparently Apple has moved to integrate the OS even more smoothly with Windows networks in the years since then.
In February,I bought a home Mac Mini and it recognised all of my non-Apple peripherals, wired or not. This included the make & model of my Diamondtron monitor which it automatically asked whether I wanted to make part of colour management. The SCSI scanner uses a USB converter, but it is recognised, as is my circa 1991 Stylewriter using a serial to USB converter. (Someone in the Mac community had written a driver and a one-step installer; others updated it to work through to OS X 10.3). I also have a USB colour BJ printer, but it's nowhere near as stingy with ink as the S'Writer.
Last year, I plugged in a work Toshiba Tecra laptop with WXP and there it was on my PowerMac desktop. The downside ironically was that my Mac version of Powerpoint had features that weren't supported on the version loaded on the PC, so I had to "dumb down" bits of the presentation before sending it on the road.


*	Topic	Author	Date
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	Rob Enderle	2005-05-02 05:26:04
	Re: 64 bit Linux on your Mac	FraterF93	2005-05-27 06:06:53
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	DaSheik	2005-05-20 14:18:20
	Wow, what are you smoking?	bugmenot	2005-05-06 00:01:04
	Apple Patented Spotlight in January 2000	aristotles	2005-05-05 21:55:15
	Doesn't integrate well? Not by my experience.	YuriS	2005-05-04 00:19:33
	wow-- pretty mind-blowing assumption there, Rob	bugmenotcom	2005-05-02 12:03:37
	Re: wow-- pretty mind-blowing assumption there, Rob	Everlast	2005-11-28 13:00:03
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	Tripod	2005-05-02 09:33:09
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	solsun	2005-05-02 09:11:01
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	kcp203	2005-05-02 08:58:56
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	Billums	2005-05-02 08:38:33
	Re: Apple's Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux	mbf666	2005-05-02 08:16:46