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To: BRK; Scoutmaster
There is no confusing two button mouse (way too hard to figure out for that hippie guy on their TV commercials). Only that disheveled nerd guy could handle an extra button right?

You are absolutely right... the Mac has no confusing two button mouse. Instead, the Mac ships with a five button scroll ball mouse. Plus you can simply plug in almost any input device of your choice and it simply is recognized and works... including trackballs, multibutton mouses, drawing pads, and touchpads.

The laptops come with multitouch trackpads that are a joy to use. Single button but depending on the number of fingers you use and how you use them, does everything a multibutton scroll wheel mouse does. The new Macbook Air does even more with its oversized gesture enabled trackpad.

63 posted on 01/30/2008 9:41:08 AM PST by Swordmaker (We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery.)
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To: Swordmaker
You are absolutely right... the Mac has no confusing two button mouse. Instead, the Mac ships with a five button scroll ball mouse. Plus you can simply plug in almost any input device of your choice and it simply is recognized and works... including trackballs, multibutton mouses, drawing pads, and touchpads.

You got me. I looked it up and the Mighty Mouse is pretty cool! The best thing about it is that the wired version works with Windows. I love MAC Hardware because it is totally awesome.

But as far as the O/S I am pretty much able to handle the extra capabilities that Windows gives me. I don't need it to "just work" by shielding me from all the icky bad stuff. I love interacting with the computer and tinkering with the tweaks and settings. Plus I enjoy things that begin with letters other than "i".

Oh well, enough about MACs, I think I will iPost this now..

99 posted on 01/30/2008 10:37:17 AM PST by BRK
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