I have yet to see anyone that likes the touchpads on any notebook, regardless of who makes it. I use an external mouse on the road. There's a couple of companies that make smaller mice that are good for the road. Check out Belkin's MiniScroller (I use this one), Kensington's PocketMouse, Targus's Scroller Mini Mouse, or Macaly's iOptiJr. The nice thing about these (in USB configurations) is that I can use them on either our office Compaq laptop or my Apple laptop when I'm on the road.
The schools only want to encourage students to learn about computers as long as you learn to be a good cubicle worker by running M$ Office (and M$ Visual Studio for the "advanced" classes). Anything else is considered heresey. God forbid that we might learn something USEFUL...
The only real change they need to make in the hardware to support this is the addition of another flippin' mouse button or two.
Okay, go buy a mouse from Logitech, Kensington, M$, or anybody else that makes a USB mouse/pointing device now. You want more buttons? They're available. Scroll wheels? No problem. Track balls? Plenty of them to go around!
Just because Apple doesn't sell their own multibutton mice doesn't mean you can't use one. (Like Dell designs and sells their own mice, they buy them from other companies.)
I have an older PowerMac with a Kensington 4-button trackball, my wife has an iMac with an M$ Intellimouse Explorer (Optical, 4 buttons + scroll wheel), and they work just fine. My mother uses her iMac with a Logitech mouse (two buttons + scroll wheel), and it works just fine too.
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My friend's (beige) PowerMac G3-333 came with a DFD player, and used hardware decoding. He picked up the machine around the end of 1998 (the original iMac was still on sale).
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Hmmm... I noticed that there is no option listed in the manual for accepting/rejecting MS Windows. Just an observation...
Well, Young Zaphod Plays it Safe is a short story that came with the deluxe hardbound edition, so I guess that counts.
Since Microsoft runs on the current Good Internet, then that would mean a Good Microsoft exists on the Evil(tm) network...
I have yet to see anyone that likes the touchpads on any notebook, regardless of who makes it. I use an external mouse on the road. There's a couple of companies that make smaller mice that are good for the road. Check out Belkin's MiniScroller (I use this one), Kensington's PocketMouse, Targus's Scroller Mini Mouse, or Macaly's iOptiJr. The nice thing about these (in USB configurations) is that I can use them on either our office Compaq laptop or my Apple laptop when I'm on the road.
The schools only want to encourage students to learn about computers as long as you learn to be a good cubicle worker by running M$ Office (and M$ Visual Studio for the "advanced" classes). Anything else is considered heresey. God forbid that we might learn something USEFUL...
Okay, go buy a mouse from Logitech, Kensington, M$, or anybody else that makes a USB mouse/pointing device now. You want more buttons? They're available. Scroll wheels? No problem. Track balls? Plenty of them to go around!
Just because Apple doesn't sell their own multibutton mice doesn't mean you can't use one. (Like Dell designs and sells their own mice, they buy them from other companies.)
I have an older PowerMac with a Kensington 4-button trackball, my wife has an iMac with an M$ Intellimouse Explorer (Optical, 4 buttons + scroll wheel), and they work just fine. My mother uses her iMac with a Logitech mouse (two buttons + scroll wheel), and it works just fine too.
Murphy's Law of measurements: Any required measurements will be in the least useable standard: e.g. speed limit 355 furlongs/fortnight
My friend's (beige) PowerMac G3-333 came with a DFD player, and used hardware decoding. He picked up the machine around the end of 1998 (the original iMac was still on sale).