Andrew J. Yon III wrote:
On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:25 PM, srn wrote:
it was up until late last week when a few people began turning it
into a 'pc' list from a mac list.
On Jan 6, 2006, at 22:00, Andrew J. Yon III wrote:
I thought this was a G list , not a P list.
Andy3
On Jan 6, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Pablo Roufogalis L. wrote:
If switching motherboards, in most cases it won't even boot, due
to differences in the IDE drivers. The old hard disk has the old
drivers and the new MB expects others. There are ways to avoid an
install from scratch, but IME they are not reliable enough to
warrant the risk of wasted time.
It's better to start again and reinstall everything. You know how
long it's going to take (a full day) and when do you have to
return to the computer to enter information. No surprises.
But changing to a different HD is easy if you have the right
utilities.
Best regards.
At 05:44 AM 1/6/2006, you wrote:
I meant in a scenario when you are going from say a P3 to a P4.
From one laptop/desktop to a completely different or newer
laptop. I can't just pull the drive from my AMD based Gateway and
expect everything just work in an Intel P4. HP. With all the
driver changes it's best to rebuild, although I suppose you
could, and just let Windows find everything.
Thank you srn. That was my point exactly. Macs have never been p3 nor
p4. I work on those other things all day long and some times more
than half the night. I come here to discuss mac specifics . If I want
to discuss the others there are thousands of other forums to go to.
Let's keep our Mac specific one, MAC SPECIFIC, Please.
Thanks,
Andy3
I'm sorry, but obviously your definition of a Mac is outdated - you need
to expand it to include the hardware that Apple will proably be
releasing within a few days. I know people have trouble dealing with
change, but we didn't all want to hold on to our 68ks in the day, and
while the relative merits of PowerPC vs x86 might be arguable in a way
68k vs PowerPC wasn't, the fact that within a couple of years any new
Mac you can buy is going to have an Intel chip under the hood means
there's no point arguing about what a Mac is.
I'm not sure I like the change; half of me says yay, half nay but at the
end of the day, a Mac is what ever Apple stamp the word
'(i/e/Power)Mac(mini)' or '(i/Power)Book' on, or whatever new names they
come up with for that matter - they define the legitimate hardware, not
the backward users who are scared of change. The systems will be
different, sure, but the first Intel Macs will have a lot more hardware
& features in common with current Macs than a current Mac with, say a
PowerMac 6100 anyway.
Remember; be true to yourself and remember why you use Macs - it's the
quality and the user experience, not what's under the hood that matters.
If a Mac mini is sufficiently powerful for most people, anything with a
modern Intel chip under the hood will be (I'm only worried that the BIOS
will ruin the user experience to some extent, but I'm still hoping
[probably in vain] for EFI).
Sayonara,
Jason
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