All of my peripherals work fine on my Vista system. My question is will Leopard work with an 8 year old printer? That's what everyone expects of Vista. By the way, I'm serious. Will it?
Name them. Every single device I have works PERFECTLY in my Vista box. I installed a 7 year old PCI RS232 card in my dell yesterday, Vista installed the driver like it should, and it works right away.
Hate Vista all you want, but at least back your hate up with facts.
That said; I am jealous of a 20 minute install, last Vista install I did took a little over an hour.
I'd let you know if Leopard will work with an 8 year old printer if it hadn't taken a fall in my recent move and now is much like an accordion if you hold it from the top... But I will be installing Leopard on my 7 year old Mac tonight! I would assume that it would work no problem with an 8 year old printer as I never had any issues with my old printer with each new release of OSX, and never even had to install any drivers or extraneous software for it either.
I'll have to agree... I can plug pretty much anything into XP or Vista and it recognizes it and well, 'it just works'. I bought a Mac Mini a year ago and well 95% of items I plug into it 'just don't work'. Why doesn't apple even support burning on external optical drives? Apple's 3rd party support is sadly almost non-existant.
I think a lot of the crap said about Vista is from idiots that don't know how to use their computers. I've had my Vista box since beta and it's been running great all along. Of course there's an issue here and there, but I can say the same thing about my mac mini running 10.4.x and my Ubuntu install as well.
Last night I spent 45 minutes trying to get my mother's brand new Vista-running HP laptop to print to my HP Deskjet 5850. I finally gave up and just plugged in my PowerBook -- which, last time I was at *her* house, was able to immediately and seamlessly print to her obscure Brother printer.
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Vista worked fine on a 8 year old machine? Then I wonder why is not working fine with all the new ones out there? Peripherals, who needs them? ;-)
All of my peripherals work fine on my Vista system. My question is will Leopard work with an 8 year old printer? That's what everyone expects of Vista. By the way, I'm serious. Will it?
Name them. Every single device I have works PERFECTLY in my Vista box. I installed a 7 year old PCI RS232 card in my dell yesterday, Vista installed the driver like it should, and it works right away.
Hate Vista all you want, but at least back your hate up with facts.
That said; I am jealous of a 20 minute install, last Vista install I did took a little over an hour.
I'd let you know if Leopard will work with an 8 year old printer if it hadn't taken a fall in my recent move and now is much like an accordion if you hold it from the top... But I will be installing Leopard on my 7 year old Mac tonight! I would assume that it would work no problem with an 8 year old printer as I never had any issues with my old printer with each new release of OSX, and never even had to install any drivers or extraneous software for it either.
I'll have to agree... I can plug pretty much anything into XP or Vista and it recognizes it and well, 'it just works'. I bought a Mac Mini a year ago and well 95% of items I plug into it 'just don't work'. Why doesn't apple even support burning on external optical drives? Apple's 3rd party support is sadly almost non-existant.
I think a lot of the crap said about Vista is from idiots that don't know how to use their computers. I've had my Vista box since beta and it's been running great all along. Of course there's an issue here and there, but I can say the same thing about my mac mini running 10.4.x and my Ubuntu install as well.
EVERY OS HAS ISSUES!
Last night I spent 45 minutes trying to get my mother's brand new Vista-running HP laptop to print to my HP Deskjet 5850. I finally gave up and just plugged in my PowerBook -- which, last time I was at *her* house, was able to immediately and seamlessly print to her obscure Brother printer.
@balt: I don't know if you've heard of it, but there's this search engine called "Google"
"According to an HP support article, the correct substitute is the Deskjet 5600 driver. This driver should be included with Vista"
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00808478&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=305980&dlc=en&lang=en
That took all of 45 seconds. Google "hp deskjet 5850 vista driver" and it's the first result.