[rollei_list] Re: Scanners
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:48:51 -0400
Hi Marc -
That is actually what I suggest with dual boot, but Don would have to make
sure that XP drivers are available for the chip set on his new computer...
Now I'm emailing from a dual boot iMac with Snow Leopard and XP :-)
Eric Goldstein
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> At 07:50 AM 3/29/2012, Eric Goldstein wrote:
> >If you wanted to operate the scanner under XP, the easier, cheaper,
> >and more reliable route would be to make the machine dual boot with
> >Windows 7 and Windows XP... you'd have to check the Intel chipset for
> >driver availability for XP to see if this is an option.
> >
> >I do this all the time for customers and it works flawlessly. The
> >laptop I am posting this message from is a dual boot XP/7 HP dv2035US
> >that one of my customers got tired of and gave me. It's a great little
> >machine. I keep XP on it because I have an old copy of CS2 that needs
> >XP to run.
> >
> >The irony of all this is that Don's old computer is probably perfectly
> >fine for the purpose of running his scanner. Just reinstall XP and get
> >all the cr*p off the machine, put it on the network, and transfer the
> >scans to any machine he wants.
>
> Why not install Windows XP on the new lap-top? That would resolve every
> problem he has set out and would allow him to run Wolftenstein 3D, and
> whyever would anyone want a machine which could not run that ultimate game?
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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