On 24 May 2011 at 8:04, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Actually, what is meant is that you can simply take the hard drive out > of one Mac, say an iMac, and have use it on a macpro. It boots up just > fine. Windows can't do that as far as I know.
It can if you have the same hardware, as you do with Macs. But because Windows PCs are not a closed and proprietary system, that's simply not the case -- you can't do it except if the machines are very close siblings (as are most Macs). > So the system disk on my > 2006 iMac, which has smart music registered on it, I can take home and > boot my macpro off that drive and it just works. > > Though most people would probably use the great migration tool apple > has where you simply connect a FireWire cable between two macs and it > will copy all your apps, docs, and settings to a new Mac I see this feature as a nice recovery/emergency feature, but not as something that makes a Mac superior to a Windows machine. By the way, corporations find value in this, and tend to buy large numbers of identical computers so that they can do exactly this (though they wouldn't swap a hard drive -- they'd just re-image a system). But for individual users, it's usually not practical as the benefit is not great enough to justify the additional expense of limiting oneself to a particular vendor's product line. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
