When you bring home a new hard drive, printer, or gamepad, it’s probably because you have something you’d actually like to do. Back up your photos. Print the proposal you just finished. Play a few games.
You shouldn’t have to waste your time trying to banish a nasty error message from your screen. You shouldn’t have to restart your computer simply because you connected a new printer. And you shouldn’t have to go off on a scavenger hunt, searching doggedly for device drivers, so that your computer can see and get along with that shiny new peripheral.
You should simply be able to connect that camera, printer, gamepad, camcorder, or phone to your computer and use it. That’s certainly the experience you’ll enjoy on a Mac. Millions do now. And you can join them.
On a Mac, a USB, FireWire, or Ethernet cable’s all you need. Plug one end into the device. Connect the other end to your Mac. And you’re good to go. You can have absolute confidence in your Mac because it comes prepared with all the drivers you’re likely to need for the peripheral devices one generally connects to computers. Thanks to Mac OS X, you don’t have to give it a moment’s thought.
In fact, the packaging for the product may not even mention the Mac, but if it connects to a computer via such industry-standard methods as USB, FireWire, Ethernet, or Bluetooth, it’s likely to just work. And on those rare occasions when the Mac doesn’t have a driver for a particular device, you should be able to find it simply by visiting the manufacturer’s website or by Googling for it. Just type “Mac OS X” and the name of the product in the Google search bar (conveniently located at the top of the Safari web browser in Mac OS X), and a few seconds later, you’ll have your driver downloaded and installed.
