On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 09:07, Dan Reese wrote: > Does anyone know how Mac systems (the new UNIX-based ones, to stay on > topic for the list :-) compare in this regard? Do they really Just Work? > Or do they have these same sorts of problems?
Mac's do support well most of hardware that a Mac user typically use. Remember that Apple makes the hardware platform, and therefore there are way less variables here as to video card, chipset, and so forth. For example, only 2 video card types are support: ATI's stuff (including radeon) and NVIDIA's GeForce series (2 and 4). Other video cards will most likely not work. I've not had experience with other things like controller cards, and since Mac's have built-in firewire and usb2 and IDE controllers, you won't really need to add such things to it. For the hardware that Mac supports, things really do just work. Add an esoteric piece of hardware like an old Video card, and you're completely out of luck. In that case, unlike Windows, you won't even find a driver anywhere. Linux has good hardware support these days. It's almost as good as Windows and in many cases exceeds Windows' support for slightly older hardware. Things just work. No messing with driver wizards. I would say Linux has much better hardware support than Mac. Michael > > --Dan > -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
