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 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.
yeh, mac are bringing out multi button mouses. it annoys me like hell when using stuff like photoshop and you have to command click just to do basic commands... gamings nigh on impossible.
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.
Actually that was the mouse I replaced with the one that has since screwed up. It was a cool design, just not practical.
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). -AT
