| disolitude said: @Plaupius A specific example of me missing drivers on a mac was when I was going to europe with it on a plane and my windows crashed (it was already wonky before I went on the trip) and I tried watching the movies I brought with me to entertain me during the 8 hour flight. None of them would play on a mac OSX... I had VLC and Divx installed on the windows xp partition...but since I rarely used mac OSX, all I had was quicktime. Stories like this happen to windows users all the time...but for some reason people think that macs are immune to this problem. |
I apologize in advance, but the situation you described is just too good to pass: your Windows crashed, and the problem you have is that you hadn't installed additional codecs to your OS X. I think I'd first blame MS for the crashing Windows, and then make a mental note to get my OS X up to date with codecs. Which, by the way, are not the same thing is drivers, but that's somewhat beside the point.
Anyway, I believe that when it comes to drivers, OS X has vastly more drivers pre-installed or built-in than any version of Windows. I vaguely remember reading something to that effect, so it might actually be true and not just my belief. My personal experience as the unofficial it-guy of a small office with Windows and OS X mixed supports that notion also. Most of the time, it's simpler to set-up the OS X for new hardware (network printers, WLAN, network storage etc.) but there have been exceptions in some cases. On the other hand, in a predominatly Windows-environment, integrating OS X clients can be tricky.
