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To: Loud Mime

There is some validity to the underlying claim. I recently got a Macbook and wanted to disable the mouse acceleration which I found annoying. The OS didn’t offer the functionality, so the option was to buy a third party app to do it. Small example of the apple tax right there.


5 posted on 10/14/2008 5:18:33 PM PDT by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop

Not to trivialize your problem, but you can click on the Apple, go to the “System Preferences” option, then click on the “Keyboard & Mouse”. This will give you options to slow the “Tracking”, “Scrolling”, and “Double Click”. I hope this solves your problem.


6 posted on 10/14/2008 5:22:56 PM PDT by stratboy
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To: MrShoop

System Preferences==>Keyboard and Mouse===>Trackpad

Perhaps they should have named the tab “mouse”, but it is not really a mouse, it’s a trackpad.

Sorry someone scammed you into buying a third party software.


18 posted on 10/14/2008 6:11:53 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: MrShoop

Someone who wanted absolutely “off” wrote some code and offers it for free here:

http://www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/


20 posted on 10/14/2008 6:34:11 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Walmart: Keeping my family on-budget since 1993.)
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To: MrShoop

I think the proper term for that is ‘disbenefit’.


24 posted on 10/14/2008 7:03:19 PM PDT by El Sordo
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To: MrShoop
The OS didn’t offer the functionality, so the option was to buy a third party app to do it. Small example of the apple tax right there.

Nice try. But I seriously doubt that Apple doesn't offer that functionality on their quite polished GUI.

You're either an M$ troll, or not trying.

25 posted on 10/14/2008 7:08:07 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: MrShoop
The OS didn’t offer the functionality, so the option was to buy a third party app to do it. Small example of the apple tax right there.

The OS does it. And on the flip side, I was able to ditch a bunch of third-party Windows apps when moving to Mac.

55 posted on 10/16/2008 7:00:53 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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