Story as follows.
Here is the new printer/scanner/thing. It's a Canon and seems pretty good.
Next is a newish MacBook. It's a bare bones first generation 1.83 Ghz.
I also have an IBM ThinkPad running Ubuntu, a Linux operating system. I'm not sure on the specs for the ThinkPad, I think it has a Pentium 4 at like 800Mhz.
Also have a Sony Vaio with Windows XP. It's a Pentium 3 at 400Mhz, roughly.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a Mac guy through and through. My love started with the Apple IIe and hasn't stopped since. I expect the Mac to have the easiest installation and the Linux box to have the hardest.
To get the printer to work on the Mac I did the following things:
1. plugged in the power to the printer, and powered it on.
2. plugged the USB cable into the Mac.
I checked in the printer control panel and there it was.
I love Mac's.
Next I was going to try the Linux machine, but I couldn't remember my login information so I couldn't use it.
I hate Windows and didn't want to subject myself to that torture.
in conclusion:
Buy a Mac.
7 comments:
I love your "can't win so don't try" attitude. It's an inspiration to none.
Um... Why didn't you install Ubuntu on the Vaio and XP on the IBM. The IBM is the more powerful computer. As I recall it has a P4 or something in it. Ubuntu requires way less in the way of power. By a new Mac already wouldja!?!
XP was already on the Vaio, and I wasn't planning on keeping it.
Also, I would have installed XP on the IBM but someone has my windows disk.
/points at jeremy
Ugh, YES! My Windows machine at work is like, "My default printer is this one that no longer exists, and no one can tell me otherwise!"
Also, why bother to send e-mails from Outlook when I click send? They can just languish in my outbox, taking it easy, right?
Oy, I could write a book. A whiny, whiny book.
I will help you write that book. That outlook-outbox-bull-plop is the bane of my existance. I just hate it so much.
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