[MacDV] Re: Better support : Canon or Sony

[Mike Swope]

Sony's support for Macs has been historically horrible. For example, the 
CD1000 (now discontinued) has no Mac OS X driver available, and none 
will be available. Sony relied on Adaptec's driver for OS 9. 
Unfortunately, OS X doesn't recognize the Sony mini-CD format without a 
third party driver. Though I like the results with the Sony product, I 
would probably be just as happy with a similarly featured product from 
Canon.

There is a reason that Sony recently posted a 98% loss in profit. < THIS 
IS NOT A TYPO!

Patty Winter wrote:

>    >I am sort of thinking Canon is starting to support the Mac better. What 
>    >do you people think? Sony's Mac support site is so pathetic. I think 
>    >they are moving away from the Mac somewhat.
> 
> I haven't looked at Sony's site, but I was just figuring out which
> digital camera I wanted, and I was impressed with the Mac information
> on Canon's site. E.g. a link from the camera specification pages to
> an entire page about various ways of downloading images from a Canon
> PowerShot to a Mac (including the Mac OS requirements for each method)
> at http://www.powershot.com/powershot2/customer/macosx.html, full Mac
> information on the drivers download page, etc. I got the feeling that
> Macs are fully supported by Canon, not an afterthought.
> 
> 
> Patty
>  
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