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Apple Climbs Into Third Place In U.S. PC Market
Tibor the Hun writes "According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down. Will the pearly gates of acceptance open up for them once they reach the magic 10%, and will that have a positive effect on desktop Linux adoption? Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."
Pardon me, but I'd like to know what version of windows you're using. It usually takes me at least 1.5 hours after installing to get all the drivers installed and not conflicting. The only things that "just work" out of the box are the GUI and my 10-year-old 3-button Microsoft optical mouse.
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Like finder will remember the view settings for each individual folder. I can't tell it to use one default view for every folder
Yes you can. Open a finder window, set it to the view type you want to set as default. I use List View (Cmd+2). Press Cmd+J to show the View Options pane. Notice how this pane changes as you cycle through the different view modes (Cmd+1-4). Once you adjust the settings to your liking, simply click "Use as Defaults" on the bottom of the View Options pane.
the standard methods of accessing the method with a single button are holding Ctrl then clicking or holding down the mouse button.
I assume you're using a laptop since you said you have to go get a usb mouse in order to right click. In the Keyboard & Mouse section of System Preferences, under "Trackpad" you can check an option labeled "Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click." I use it all the time.
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My issues with el Mighty Mouse:
1. The stupid trackball gets clogged very easily and is very hard to clean.
2. The stupid trackball is too small for fine control. Great for whizzing the cursor along vast expanses of screen, bad for little adjustements.
3. If I don't have the mouse perfectly aligned, I can't get the "right mouse" button - I get the "side button" which defaults to Expose, which is useful, but isn't the right mouse button. It's just over designed and not overly well executed. They could have just put a blasted button in there instead of getting all fancy.
4. The whole thing is hard take apart and clean. I'm sorry, mice and keyboards need to be periodically cleaned or tossed and the MM is a little pricey to toss routinely.
5. The ergonomics aren't very good, I much prefer the Logitech mice. Easier to use for extended periods of time.
Of course, it's all quite subjective. I'm just glad that there are good third party options.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!