Do you like your macbook?

[ST1300Rider]

While the oem Apple mouse does not have a right button, the functionality is there. My Logitech bluetooth travel mouse has all the functionality on my Macbook as it does on an Windows unit. The right mouse button function is there on the track pad as well, just tap with two fingers.  

[bizarro]

While the oem Apple mouse does not have a right button, the functionality is there. My Logitech bluetooth travel mouse has all the functionality on my Macbook as it does on an Windows unit. The right mouse button function is there on the track pad as well, just tap with two fingers.  

Yep, I've been using a two-button mouse for several years.  

[hobbes]

While the oem Apple mouse does not have a right button, the functionality is there. My Logitech bluetooth travel mouse has all the functionality on my Macbook as it does on an Windows unit. The right mouse button function is there on the track pad as well, just tap with two fingers.  

All OEM external mice with Macs have left and rich click, 360 degree scroll ball with center click, and a side click system that is programmable.

Only their laptops dont have the right click, and that feature is accessable via option+click.

[kevin_stevens]

All OEM external mice with Macs have left and rich click, 360 degree scroll ball with center click, and a side click system that is programmable.

Only their laptops dont have the right click, and that feature is accessable via option+click.

All the recent laptops (original MacBook and later) have a trackpad right-click option as well - if you have two fingers on the pad a click is interpreted as right-click.  Works very well, under Windows, too.  This was one of my big complaints with earlier laptops.

KeS

[ST1300Rider]

All the recent laptops (original MacBook and later) have a trackpad right-click option as well - if you have two fingers on the pad a click is interpreted as right-click.  Works very well, under Windows, too.  This was one of my big complaints with earlier laptops.

KeS

You don't even need to use the click bar....for anything. One tap = left click, tap with two fingers = right click, slide two fingers = scroll, tap twice and hold on the second tap, slide finger to select text or drag item, tap once more to release.

[bizarro]

I just like attaching a USB two-button mouse.

Speaking of weird things, does anyone here use mouse gestures? A good friend of mine works at Amazon in webdev and she uses them all the time. I watched her using them once and all I kept thinking of was Johnny Mnemonic. That's some voodoo right there.  

[kevin_stevens]

You don't even need to use the click bar....for anything. One tap = left click, tap with two fingers = right click, slide two fingers = scroll, tap twice and hold on the second tap, slide finger to select text or drag item, tap once more to release.

Yes, you're right - but I absolutely loathe "tap to click" on all computers/OSes, so it didn't enter my mind.  Sorry.

KeS

[Sorthum]

I also have issue with the idea of "Here's a laptop that, fully tricked out, can cost upwards of 3K.  Now, you're going to have to go out and buy an external mouse to use it comfortably."

[DredheadV2.0]

I also have issue with the idea of "Here's a laptop that, fully tricked out, can cost upwards of 3K.  Now, you're going to have to go out and buy an external mouse to use it comfortably."

Hrm.  I like the two-finger trackpad approach, myself.  Having to use my GF's Thinkpad with all the damn buttons or even that damn joystick is far more irritating than the two-week learning curve to get comfortable with the Mac's approach.  Now it's second nature, and I don't miss having a second button at all.  In fact, I don't use the button 90% of the time.  If I'm doing something that requires precision cursor work - graphics or music editing - then I'm not using the trackpad on a laptop regardless of manufacture.  I'm gonna use the trackball.

[Nny]

I guess I have an advantage on the left click stuff because I'm left handed.  Cntrl + click is really easy for me on my iBook.  I just hit it with my index finger and use my thumb for the button.  Playing with the trackpad with my right hand, I can do the same thing pretty comfortably, but it would take some getting used to.  

I hate tap to click as well because a lot of the time I move too quickly and it thinks I'm tapping instead of moving.

[DredheadV2.0]

I hate tap to click as well because a lot of the time I move too quickly and it thinks I'm tapping instead of moving.

That's coz you're like half my age or something, and still have youth's Ninja-Like Reflexes(tm) whereas I sometimes get distracted by the wee pointy cursor and just wiggle it back and forth across the screen and laugh quietly to myself.

[Thunder7]

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Anyone have anything further?   I'll gladly answer further questions, or shut up and go away if y'all would prefer. ;-)

Short version- been doing various kinds of PC/WinDOZE support for about 13 years. Thats why I own a MAC.