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Hello,
After all my life using PCs, I am considering buying a Mac. Mostly because I liked the OS, and I want to know new things.
But then, one thing came to my mind. If I buy, let´s say, a Mac notebook, will my HP deskjet 3550 printer work with it? The printer has a USB cable, and works good on Linux and Windows.
I mean, I heard that Apple has monopoly over Mac hardware, or something like that. What exact they have monopoly over? The motherboard? The graphics card too? And what about sound cards, microphones, monitors, webcams, pendrives, etc.?
Also, I would like to know how this applies for both Power PC Mac, and also Mac on intel. The Mac on intel supports more hardware?
On a more technical size, does Macs support PCI boards? What kind of hardware output/input protocols can I find on a Mac? Let´s say, equivalents of parallel port, serial port, pci, etc.
thanks a lot,
Felipe
After all my life using PCs, I am considering buying a Mac. Mostly because I liked the OS, and I want to know new things.
But then, one thing came to my mind. If I buy, let´s say, a Mac notebook, will my HP deskjet 3550 printer work with it? The printer has a USB cable, and works good on Linux and Windows.
I mean, I heard that Apple has monopoly over Mac hardware, or something like that. What exact they have monopoly over? The motherboard? The graphics card too? And what about sound cards, microphones, monitors, webcams, pendrives, etc.?
Also, I would like to know how this applies for both Power PC Mac, and also Mac on intel. The Mac on intel supports more hardware?
On a more technical size, does Macs support PCI boards? What kind of hardware output/input protocols can I find on a Mac? Let´s say, equivalents of parallel port, serial port, pci, etc.
thanks a lot,
Felipe