The Mattcave

I’ve been saying this ever since Boot Camp came out. At work the first thing we do when we get any new computer in is to wipe the hard drive and put our Windows image on it. After that you tend to spend a couple hours re-installing all of the drivers and the few utilities that actually add value to the computer. I will admit that IBM Lenovo has a decent auto-installer, it’s slow, and it bugs you periodically to press a button just for kicks, but it sure beats downloading and installing everything by hand.It just amazes me how Apple is the only company that can give you a single CD image that installs all of the drivers and utilities you need for all of their computers. One disk will cover you if you have a MacBook, iMac, MacBook Pro, or Mac Pro, and when you’re done, everything works. There are no “unknown hardware” icons left in device manager, no mysterious keys on the keyboard that don’t work. Hell, the latest versions of Boot Camp even support two finger scrolling. Best of all, when you’re done, there’s no crap to uninstall.(via daringfireball)

Filed under: Apple, Tech by mattstocum