Apple v PC

[jack the lad]

Apologies to everyone for the ranting and to the OP for the hijack!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

interesting to come across someone who has difficulty working a mac…

 

[Tim Bennet.]

My Mac Book Pro has all sorts of 'finger click' stuff on its trackpad. I'm sure touching it with two fingers brings up the 'right click' or ctrl-click menus.

Then there's two finger scrolling, opposing fingers for zoom, three finger sweep for page forward or back, etc. . .

Can't say I've missed a second button when the trackpad is so versatile. And it's the same movements as the iPhone, etc.

 

[jack the lad]

Don't get me wrong - I like Macs, but that doesn't mean they are perfect. They are not difficult to use - I just find the right click feature useful and until Uncle Mort's post neither I, nor you, nor Gaz knew how to do it without attaching a 2 button mouse to a laptop. There are often situations where it is useful to be able to use a laptop without connecting a mouse to it. Now shall we leave this topic.

 

[allen-uk]

Mac OSX/standard Apple iMac mouse:

Go to System Preferences; go to Keyboard & Mouse; set the central button (button 3) how you like, then the left/right primary button (buttons 1 and 2), then the left and right hand squeeze button (button 4). And if they doesn't cover all the options that the inferior PC mouse has, I'll eat my Mac.

Or run it as a one-click mouse, like most of us do.

Now we shall leave the topic.

A.

 

[jack the lad]

I'm well impressed if you can do all those things with your fancy mouse
but which part of 'it only has one button' is it that you don't understand!

The MacBook Pro (mega money) trackpad sounds well good - but you didn't get those features with a bottom of the range Mac laptop when my wife bought hers, even if you do now!

I've had more than enough of this topic now!

 

[twowheelsgood]

Macs are PCs. They are made with identical hardware made by the same people - the likes of Foxconn and Quanta in the Far East.

Apple lost the race with their more proprietry Motorola and PowerPc architecture years ago.

The only decision is "do you like the OS" and are prepared to pay the extra cost and live with a more limited range of both hardware and software.

I used to always build "bleeding edge" machines years ago but as I don't game or do much video encoding, there is little or no point to paying out any money at all for a PC.

I get early core 2 duo PCs now for myself and friends for about £50 a time from the company - they'll do HD video and whatever.

 

[gaz]

You are making this up. You don't have to just change the settings, you also have to buy a different mouse. The standard apple mouse only has one button. The right click enabling is in the software drivers that come with the aftermarket mouse. If you don't know what you are talking about - shut up.

LMAO - thats classic, From one minute you go to thanking me, and the next biting my ass becuase your clearly having issues getting your head around something, and you just want to point the blame at others

I have used many 'aftermarket' mice on both my iMac and Mac Mini. They all worked out the box with right click from the off set and the only time i had to use software drivers to get anything is for my trackball scrolling buttons which can be programmed to do anything you like.

You have another option, under keyboard and mouse settings, go to trackpad. and turn on 'Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click' easy as...

 

[sheddy]

Thanks peps. Are there likely any to be any problems with a mac when importing our old Word and Excel files ?

 

[Black Sheep]

You are making this up. You don't have to just change the settings, you also have to buy a different mouse. The standard apple mouse only has one button. The right click enabling is in the software drivers that come with the aftermarket mouse. If you don't know what you are talking about - shut up.

the apple mouse does indeed only have one button on it.

however it can be set up to right click [goes to check it can be] yup it can be

and is very very freaky while it appears and feels to have a single button it has two sensors, one each side, so where you press depends on what function you get, set it to be dual button and press at the left side of the mouse, like you would on the mouse you have and it left clicks - press on the right side of the mouse and it right clicks.

the mouse i'm using is three years old and came with my imac

 

[Black Sheep]

Thanks peps. Are there likely any to be any problems with a mac when importing our old Word and Excel files ?

if you have office for mac on the mac then there should not be a problem

pages and keynote happily open any office document on my mac (not got numbers) so i've never felt the need to get office for mine. £50 for iwork (pages and keynote) or £200 for office felt like an easy choice for a student

 

[Carwash]

This thread is hilarious.

 

[Bigtwin]

Right. Old Mac Mouse (G3 era) one button, there is no right click, you use control to get it.

Newer ones (mighty mouse etc with scroll tit) - 4/5 button depending on how you get it up. It's a system detect, you can't bull it.

Most USB mice will plug and play - I'm sitting here with a Logitech 7 button and it's all programmable in OSX without any downloads.

If you want games and shite - don't get a Mac.

If you want reliable and trouble-free grown-up use, get an Mac and relax. End of.

PS - I've had Macs for 10 years for personal use, and PCs for the same periods for various work crap on account of Gatzzzzzz world domination. Macs pisson PCs for utility and reliabiliy, full stop. But they are shite at teenage needs crap.

 

[gaz]

But they are shite at teenage needs crap.

The only thing Mac's are bad at are gaming. and thats due to the OpenGL they use instead of DirectX.

So how does it make it bad for teenage needs? So if your teenager is a hardcore gammer on the PC. then yeah the Mac route is not good. but for general school work, browsing, music and videos their is nothing wrong with it.