Everything seems to be advancing well for OSX, but ever since 10.1, I've never been able to move the mouse properly, because the acceleration is tied inseparably to the track speed - can't they not couple this together and make our lives easier. I would believe many of us are used to non-accelerated mousing from the Linux or Windows platforms. I find it difficult to nagivate in OSX cause of this. Shouldn't that count to the overall useability? I hope Tiger comes with the option of turning off the mouse acceleration.
...till Apple gives the option of turning off that darn mouse acceleration. It's completely unusable to me if I can't turn off. I've been brought up with the precision of Windows mouse pointing. I wonder if any/.'s who has tried a demo of OS X realised why they couldn't get used to the "feel" of the Mac. Yup - it's the mouse acceleration. I've been on them about it ever since I bought that iBook which sits day in/out collecting dust, and they haven't done a thing.
Gnome's purity is much better from an engineers POV. Should come up with beautiful schemes like "Liquid" for Gnome. I just wish Gnome/KDE hackers would learn from BeOS & OSX and cease trying to imitate Windows.
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yes, the headphones are really bad acoustically. They may look nice, but it's about the sound.
Everything seems to be advancing well for OSX, but ever since 10.1, I've never been able to move the mouse properly, because the acceleration is tied inseparably to the track speed - can't they not couple this together and make our lives easier. I would believe many of us are used to non-accelerated mousing from the Linux or Windows platforms. I find it difficult to nagivate in OSX cause of this. Shouldn't that count to the overall useability? I hope Tiger comes with the option of turning off the mouse acceleration.
...till Apple gives the option of turning off that darn mouse acceleration. It's completely unusable to me if I can't turn off. I've been brought up with the precision of Windows mouse pointing. I wonder if any /.'s who has tried a demo of OS X realised why they couldn't get used to the "feel" of the Mac. Yup - it's the mouse acceleration. I've been on them about it ever since I bought that iBook which sits day in/out collecting dust, and they haven't done a thing.
Gnome's purity is much better from an engineers POV. Should come up with beautiful schemes like "Liquid" for Gnome. I just wish Gnome/KDE hackers would learn from BeOS & OSX and cease trying to imitate Windows.