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Teaching the Trackpad New Tricks?
An anonymous reader asks: "I'm seriously considering buying a PowerBook. The design is gorgeous and OS X will give me a Unix-based operating system without having to sacrifice main-stream comercial applications. What's holding me back? The trackpad. I'm a fan of the ThinkPad-style joystick, but my Dell laptop came with touchpad drivers that provide useful features like the ability to scroll by sliding your finger along the edge of the pad. That was enough to make me switch to the touchpad on the Dell, but, I can't find anything similar for the PowerBook. I found references to Overdrive, but it appears to only work with USB devices. Are there any other drivers out there that add more functionality to the trackpad? If not, is that because no one has done it yet, or is it because the APIs do not exist to do such a thing? Thanks."
Let's see. Mice, Joysticks, Voice command things for games. That's some hardware Microsoft makes. I'm sure there are other examples.
Windows runs on Intel (and some other) platforms. Intel gets to decide their own architecture, not Microsoft. In addition, I don't think anyone ever said RISC wasn't a better proccessor. The reason people stayed with x86 architecture is because of backwards compatability with all the mission critical business apps that are out there.
Apple didn't HAVE any mission critical business apps written for it, therefore they didn't have a problem upgrading.
When calling someone an idiot, the word you are looking for is you're. You may also use "you are". The use of "your" really makes YOU look like an idiot.