Couple of quick questions...
1) When a printer or scanner or any other bit of kit is advertised as "MacOSX 10.2 or later" can you be reasonably confident that it will work with 10.4, 10.5, etc?
2) How about when something is specifically advertised as "Mac OSX 10.4" (and you know that 10.5 wasn't out when that was written) can you assume that it will be very likely to work with 10.5? (Again, I'm talking things like printers and scanners)?
It's just that if we assume Apple releases a new version of OSX every 12-18 months, and if the above assumptions can't be safely made without checking each bit of kit, then doesn't that mean all our printers/scanners/etc may - may - only have a shelf life of a year to a year and half? (assuming we upgrade OSX at every version)
(Just seems a bit crazy - that's shorter than it would take me to use up a laser printer refill!
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1) When a printer or scanner or any other bit of kit is advertised as "MacOSX 10.2 or later" can you be reasonably confident that it will work with 10.4, 10.5, etc?
2) How about when something is specifically advertised as "Mac OSX 10.4" (and you know that 10.5 wasn't out when that was written) can you assume that it will be very likely to work with 10.5? (Again, I'm talking things like printers and scanners)?
It's just that if we assume Apple releases a new version of OSX every 12-18 months, and if the above assumptions can't be safely made without checking each bit of kit, then doesn't that mean all our printers/scanners/etc may - may - only have a shelf life of a year to a year and half? (assuming we upgrade OSX at every version)
(Just seems a bit crazy - that's shorter than it would take me to use up a laser printer refill!
)
