I hate to tell you this, but the peripherals, especially drives and such
like, are all the same, I'm running used "Apple" equipment in this PC
even now.
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
At the risk of starting the usual flame war, I have to say I haven't
had a "stupid computer week" in about 4 years ... that was the week
that my hard drive failed suddenly, two months from my last backup.
That was my first system failure since 1985 too. Um ... Apple
equipment running Mac OS since 1985...
You can hate me too now. ];-)
Godfrey
On Apr 20, 2005, at 3:32 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
I think I hate you...
David Oswald wrote:
Henri Toivonen wrote:
Yeah it was stupid computer week here too.
Last night the computer just rebooted, and when it got back up,
poof, F: was missing.
Windows said it wasn't formatted.
Ofcourse that was where I had all my pics, none were backupped.
Thank god a program called 'GetDataBack' saved my ass, and I got
all the pics back.
I've had a "good computer week" here, actually. I just got an HP
Photosmart 8450. Plugged it into a network switch which is in turn
plugged into the router, and presto, it worked just as expected.
The built-in card reader even acts as an external drive, also
network accessable. And the printer's software drivers installed
easily on my two wifi-enabled notebooks. So I can print wirelessly
from my notebooks. I'm even reasonably impressed with the driver
suite.
Add to that the new 120GB network hard drive. It's similar to those
exernal USB hard drives, but instead plugs into my network. Once
again, right out of the box it works as advertised, and without
giving it any thought. So now the two notebooks can share this
120GB drive that I'll begin to fill up with images captured with the
*ist-DS. Oh, and burning the images off to CD's has also proven to
be a snap.
And the HP lives gracefully on the same network as my Canon S820
printer, which is plugged into a Netgear print server. The S820 has
become my text / casual printer, and the HP8450 gets to be my photo
printer.
I'm honestly surprised at how easily these three devices integrated
into my home network without any special tweaking.
