OK, so here's a weird question...


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I have this friend who has this vinyl cutter, a pretty good machine.

She recently upgraded from an older PC to a new MBPro, and now that she's trying to install the drivers in the new machine she can't, whether she tried running it in OSX or running paralells.

Does anyone know what she can do and why the old PC running XP can work with it no probs, but when she tried the XP in her new Mac she can't?

She's kind of frustrated and I feel a certain guilt 'cause I was the one suggesting her to change from one to the other.

Help?!?!?!?1

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So...

I have this friend who has this vinyl cutter, a pretty good machine.

She recently upgraded from an older PC to a new MBPro, and now that she's trying to install the drivers in the new machine she can't, whether she tried running it in OSX or running paralells.

Does anyone know what she can do and why the old PC running XP can work with it no probs, but when she tried the XP in her new Mac she can't?

She's kind of frustrated and I feel a certain guilt 'cause I was the one suggesting her to change from one to the other.

Help?!?!?!?1

You did create a bootcamp disc with drivers, right?

hummmm... i don't think she did, though she's trying with the original drivers that came with the machine.

i did double post.... because it said that the first post wasn't on.

ooooops!

A macbook pro doesn't come with any windows drivers other than boot camp. What drivers do you mean?

it detects 'something' as a USB controller in parallels. .. but the software for the cutter can't communicate with the cutter...

don't know if it's a parallels thing or what.

All I can suggest is bootcamp; if it isn't supported in Mac OS X, you'll find that running it through parallels, rather than bootcamp, it still won't be detected. Atleast with bootcamp, its a clean slate and you've got nothing running under Windows which could cause issues.

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