Exactly. Plus even though USB is a 'standard' it may be open to
interpretation at the hardware/firmware level. In the PC world,
manufacturers have to make sure these devices work across any vendor's
PC. In the Mac world, Apple does what it wants.
So again, time will tell.
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Halliday" <dh@...> wrote:
>
> I think the issue here is that Apple provides the drivers for its own
> video, audio, NIC and such but nothing else.
>
> If you have a stand-alone MIDI interface that connects through a PCI
> card, you may well be out of luck.
>
> You may also be out of luck if your MIDI interface connects through a
> USB interface but the interface driver authors "got cute" and wrote
> something that is based on WinTel hardware. There is no guarantee that
> you can take a MIDI interface and plug it into the MAC and have the
> accompanying drivers work.
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On
> > Behalf Of Jason Proctor
> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:59 PM
> > To: MOTM
> > Subject: Re: [motm] Re: MOTM-650 mac users: mac bootcamp = MS
> > XP on intelmac = 650 updating from Mac
> >
> >
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060406/tc_pcworld/125325
> >
> > gents, it's just windows, regardless of who makes the box.
> >
> >
> > >Of course, this means you'll need to shell out the $250 or
> > whatever for
> > >your Windows XP license... yuckies! FOSS, people!
> > >
> >
> > i'm sure that if you check your spam folder you'll find people
> > willing to sell you a copy for less
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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