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To: papasmurf

I switched to a Macbook Pro about a year ago. I love it. I still use PCs at work, but I find the Mac does everything I need it to and overall gives me less problems. Many people don’t know this, but you can actually run Windows on it as well. Running Vista, it beats the heck out of the big bloated Lenovo laptop I have at work.

I do agree about the two-button mouse, though. Instead of the extra button, I have to hold down a key when I click, or click and hold, or place two fingers on the track pad and then click. The Apple mighty mouse even has a second button that you click by pressing on the right side of the mouse (the actual surface of the mouse shows no button, however, and the right click action is a little unreliable).

It’s ludicrous the lengths they have gone to give the second button functionality without actually having the second button. This reeks of the engineers trying to work around an illogical edict from some management puke that has some twisted button phobia (maybe this is Steve Jobs?).


6 posted on 09/12/2008 12:36:09 AM PDT by Scutter
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To: Scutter

Yes; he hates buttons to the point of being irratioal. Look at the design of the Ipod. A volume button had to be the same button used for every other GD thing.


8 posted on 09/12/2008 12:46:35 AM PDT by mbraynard (You are the Republican Party. See you at the precinct meeting.)
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To: Scutter
I do agree about the two-button mouse, though. Instead of the extra button, I have to hold down a key when I click, or click and hold, or place two fingers on the track pad and then click. The Apple mighty mouse even has a second button that you click by pressing on the right side of the mouse (the actual surface of the mouse shows no button, however, and the right click action is a little unreliable).

You could go into your System Preferences and turn on the ability to use multiple finger contacts on the pad. Then you could Right Click simply by tapping two fingers on the pad... much easier. I find I miss it when forced to use Windows laptops.

Two finger scrolling is great, too.

This YouTube video explains it.

10 posted on 09/12/2008 12:54:05 AM PDT by Swordmaker (Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
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