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Rendezvous is cool!
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I set up an HP Color LaserJet 2500N today for a client--small office, with ~8 Macs and a couple of PCs. The Macs (10.2.3) recognized the printer instantly through Rendezvous--no driver installs needed. This is how it should always be! The PCs--well, they took much, much longer to set up (especially the XP machine).
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Just like AppleTalk but without the chatter.
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"Hello, what have we here?
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You're right about PCs. The operating systems don't start out with a lot of intelligence about the possible peripherals you'll connect to them, and new devices are often not really supported until long after they're released. Sigh. On the other hand, XP is much better at figuring out what kind of peripheral you've just plugged in, whether it has a driver or not, and even finding a driver for you online. It still takes too long to install them, though.
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Originally posted by GHPorter:
On the other hand, XP is much better at figuring out what kind of peripheral you've just plugged in, whether it has a driver or not, and even finding a driver for you online. It still takes too long to install them, though.
Personally, I find all the "wizards" in XP really annoying (especially the networking ones)...I would much rather enter in settings myself like Win95/98.
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Originally posted by Macola:
Personally, I find all the "wizards" in XP really annoying (especially the networking ones)...I would much rather enter in settings myself like Win95/98.
You can get around the wizards, but that's a pain too. It's usually simplest to let the wizard to its thing with default settings, and then change the settings on whatever it was that you just set up later.
The problem is that MS has a very different idea of what's "helpful" to the user than Apple does. Mac OS (whichever, take your pick) usually sort of offers to walk you through something you're doing, but it doesn't stand up and demand to conduct a guided tour. Apple is also much better at providing help, when you need it, not when you know what you're doing.
I had also mis-worded my previous post. When I said that XP was "better" at this or that, I meant it was better than previous Windows versions. Let me be very clear on that-when you can basically plug a printer into a Mac and use it right away, you're head and shoulders above a Windows machine that walks you through figuring out what kind of printer you plugged in,where you plugged it in, what kind of printing you're going to do, and so on ad infinitum.
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