It keeps it safe, because you can 'accidently' hit the button on a PC case, which will cause it to spit out in the middle of reading/writing, causing a corrupted diskette.
back to the topic at hand, A two button mouse is nice, but not necessary to run a Mac. You dont need two buttons to nagigate an OS (unless its Windows). And if it is really necessary to right click something on a Mac, I long gotten used to Control-Clicking, because my hands are on the keyboard more than the mouse. or my left hand is on the keyboard, and my right hand is moving the mouse.
a lot has already been mentioned, but I thought that I should mention a couple GREAT mac-related websites:
www.macosxhints.com - a wonderful resource for good hints and tips on getting the most out of OS X.
www.thinksecret.com - a great mac-news related site.
www.macrumors.com - another great mac-news related site, they also have really good forums with very nice and helpful members, who will help you with your problem no matter how small it is.
those are the 3 sites I visit on a daily basis.
one last thing, a good program to have is called "MPlayer" - it will play nearly ANY kind of movie file and it is great for playing those l33t DivX's you downloaded:-P
you can get it here - http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
I was running an old 333mhz P2 computer about a year ago. we just bought a wireless router, so I went to plug in a PCI Wireless card. I dont know what I did, but I ended up frying the boot sector of my primary hard drive. I dont know if it was already doomed before I put the card in, or If I bumped the hard drive. I thought... ok dont panic, luckly I backed up my entire hard drive to a secondary hard drive just a few nights ago, so I unplugged the primary, and made the secondary one the master hard drive, I went to boot it up and guess what!, that hard drives boot sector is also fried (a click-click sound kept coming, and the computer didnt even see a hard drive plugged in). thats probably the worst "accident" for me, because I had a lot of important files and documents on those drives, and now they are gone:(
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will it catch the 'real' virus? Being "Explorer.exe"?
It keeps it safe, because you can 'accidently' hit the button on a PC case, which will cause it to spit out in the middle of reading/writing, causing a corrupted diskette. back to the topic at hand, A two button mouse is nice, but not necessary to run a Mac. You dont need two buttons to nagigate an OS (unless its Windows). And if it is really necessary to right click something on a Mac, I long gotten used to Control-Clicking, because my hands are on the keyboard more than the mouse. or my left hand is on the keyboard, and my right hand is moving the mouse.
a lot has already been mentioned, but I thought that I should mention a couple GREAT mac-related websites:
:-P
www.macosxhints.com - a wonderful resource for good hints and tips on getting the most out of OS X.
www.thinksecret.com - a great mac-news related site.
www.macrumors.com - another great mac-news related site, they also have really good forums with very nice and helpful members, who will help you with your problem no matter how small it is.
those are the 3 sites I visit on a daily basis.
one last thing,
a good program to have is called "MPlayer" - it will play nearly ANY kind of movie file and it is great for playing those l33t DivX's you downloaded
you can get it here - http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
I was running an old 333mhz P2 computer about a year ago. we just bought a wireless router, so I went to plug in a PCI Wireless card. I dont know what I did, but I ended up frying the boot sector of my primary hard drive. I dont know if it was already doomed before I put the card in, or If I bumped the hard drive. I thought... ok dont panic, luckly I backed up my entire hard drive to a secondary hard drive just a few nights ago, so I unplugged the primary, and made the secondary one the master hard drive, I went to boot it up and guess what!, that hard drives boot sector is also fried (a click-click sound kept coming, and the computer didnt even see a hard drive plugged in). thats probably the worst "accident" for me, because I had a lot of important files and documents on those drives, and now they are gone :(