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. 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 Sent from my iSomething On May 24, 2011, at 5:18 AM, "David W. Fenton" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23 May 2011 at 14:57, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > >> You do know that windows generally needs to be reinstalled if you >> switch hardware. > > I don't know what this is intended to mean. It doesn't sound correct > at all. > > If you get a new PC, yes, you'll have a new copy of Windows (pre- > installed). If you build your own PC, you'll have to install Windows. > > But that's no different from a Mac (for which you don't have the > choice of building your own, BTW). > > The implication of the above is that adding hardware to a PC requires > re-installing Windows, and this is not now nor has it ever been > correct. > > Care to clarify what you actually meant? > > -- > David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com > David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
