idiosyncrasies.org— Here’s a guide that outlines some basic and interesting things about Mac OSX that will make any Windows user completely at ease if you ever end up having to work on Macs.
Apr 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
> The touchpad also lacks scrollingNo, it doesn't. You scroll by using two fingers simultaneously in any direction. This beats edge scrolling, scroll buttons or a separate scroll strip IMO. (yes I know this is redundant, but I wanted to elaborate)> Yeah, you can buy a two button one but I'm sure that 95% of the people out there would prefer> two buttons to the one gigantic single button on their laptop. I find the "gigantic" button ergonomic. I frequently "mouse" with my right thumb while typing, and using a two-button laptop is annoying because I have to reach over to left click. Also on a laptop, ctrl is never far away.
I'm with Arramol. I love Apple products, and would love to use OS X every day, but Macs are just too expensive. I'm a poor university student, I can't afford to spend $500 (arbitrary number, don't flame) more on a computer than I have to.
Great article. I am former Mac geek-now parttime Mac geek-soon again to be fulltime Mac geek (come on, 2.33ghz MacBook!), and they mention some great utilities in here that I've never seen mentioned in any of the Mac User zines.
evilgod69Apr 26, 2006
clicked the wrong reply button, had buried the one below...
euanApr 26, 2006
And then can I play Battlefield2? No! Bah to Macs!
percApr 26, 2006
> The touchpad also lacks scrollingNo, it doesn't. You scroll by using two fingers simultaneously in any direction. This beats edge scrolling, scroll buttons or a separate scroll strip IMO. (yes I know this is redundant, but I wanted to elaborate)> Yeah, you can buy a two button one but I'm sure that 95% of the people out there would prefer> two buttons to the one gigantic single button on their laptop. I find the "gigantic" button ergonomic. I frequently "mouse" with my right thumb while typing, and using a two-button laptop is annoying because I have to reach over to left click. Also on a laptop, ctrl is never far away.
tiukApr 26, 2006
I'm with Arramol. I love Apple products, and would love to use OS X every day, but Macs are just too expensive. I'm a poor university student, I can't afford to spend $500 (arbitrary number, don't flame) more on a computer than I have to.
deemaddenApr 28, 2006
Great article. I am former Mac geek-now parttime Mac geek-soon again to be fulltime Mac geek (come on, 2.33ghz MacBook!), and they mention some great utilities in here that I've never seen mentioned in any of the Mac User zines.