I was walking past the apple store and I looked at everyone and my friends and I said very loudly “I really love to right click” and one of the people working came out and talked to us, challenged my PC to go head on with a dual 2.6ghz system. I said well duh it’s gonna win, how about you challenge me vs. a mac around 700 which is how much I paid. He changed subject.
Though he did talk about how mac’s might be coming out with 2-button or 2-button with scroll wheel mouses soon out of the box instead of those cheesy 1button mouses.
Yeah I got so sick of the hopeless 1-button mice I bought my own Kensington 3-button/scroll pad mouse that has since started to crap out on us, the stupid regular buttons barely work any more:( I have no idea why Apple didn’t go with the multi-button thing, I guess they wanted to be as user friendly as possible, that extra button was just so confusing for some people :rolleyes:
The only mac that’s a really good value these days is the emac, that thing is actually pretty damn fast for a whole all in one system for less than a grand. The main 2 probs I have with all the mac products is 1: The ram costs about $200 for a gig, and all the stock gfx cards suck and only the towers have any chance of a really expensive upgrade from the limeted, slow to update, selection.
Yeah, having to spend $2000 just to play Doom3 (no hope on any of Apple’s laptops really) and then having to press Command+click just to do simple functions, like alt fire.
The only mac mouse I ever liked was the one where the entire mouse was a button and you pressed down on it for a click. I’m too heavy-handed for it though, the way I move my mouse would mean I’d be constantly click-dragging.
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I was walking past the apple store and I looked at everyone and my friends and I said very loudly “I really love to right click” and one of the people working came out and talked to us, challenged my PC to go head on with a dual 2.6ghz system. I said well duh it’s gonna win, how about you challenge me vs. a mac around 700 which is how much I paid. He changed subject.
Though he did talk about how mac’s might be coming out with 2-button or 2-button with scroll wheel mouses soon out of the box instead of those cheesy 1button mouses.
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The single-button mac Mouse is a stupid idea, multiple buttons are extremely useful. You can use just about any USB mouse with a Mac though, so it’s not much of a point. On the topic of performance, you should have challenged the guy to benchmark that dual PPC against your system on a MYSQL benchmark. You’d score at least 2x as fast against that hardware (assuming you were running Linux for the benchmark).
