Every OS X already has two mouse buttons, click and ctrl-click. Apple are just finally accepting that it's simpler to put the ctrl on the mouse and not the keyboard if you're going to argue that a mouse is a necessary device. Then again, was that just a feature that turned up in OS X as a precursor to 2-button mice?
Any idea if they'll be releasing a laptop with 2-buttons? I'd ruled out another powerbook for the simple reason that even if I get an intel powerbook that can run windows, linux and os x, it'd be crippled in windows (and painful in linux) without the 2nd mouse button. Now if only they would put the scroll wheel on the laptop too :) Hen On 8/2/05, Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: > Hmm, well it can be programmed to act as a one button mouse if you > want. It could be useful for those converting from being windroids to > being Mac users that for strange reason think you just gotta have > multi-button meeces roaming around the desktop to get work done. > > I wonder if Apple will release this in a wireless bluetooth version ... > > Apple has also announced that the number of widgets available "out > there" for Dashboard has passed 1000. What is everyone's favorite > widget? > (Yup, Panther users can answer if they have any favorites, remember you > can visit Yahoo! and download and install the now-free but formerly > cost-bucks Konfabulator or use one of the other shareware apps that let > you run "nice" widgets with Panther.) > > Jerryh > > On Aug 02, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Rob Kersting wrote: > > > Wow... > > > > You know, I've been using a Mac for over 20 years now with great > > success. In fact, I have been able to accomplish everything I have > > needed to do with the single button mouse that came with the Mac. It > > has only been in the last few months that I began using a multi-button > > mouse, and only then because it came with the Mac I bought. > > > > And you know what? I've never been held back because my mouse only had > > one button. I've never been late for a deadline because I didn't have > > a scroll wheel. I've never left a project unfinished because I didn't > > have a right-click button. And I have never found myself in a > > "cranial/rectal" dilemma because Apple never found it necessary to > > move to a multi-button pointing device. > > > > My response to the announcement? Big deal. > > > > rob > > > > Jerry Freeman wrote: > > > >> No $*%^#! Mr Jobs, it's finally the 21st Century! I'm looking for a > >> redemption certificate under my seat. Also, FS: White, like new, > >> original owner collector Apple "One" button mouse (from the cranial/ > >> rectal period), less than 2K in town miles, always garaged. All > >> serious offers considered :) > >> > >> ...jf > >> > >> On Aug 2, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: > >> > >>> http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/ > >>> > >>> An apple multi button mouse. > >> > >> > >> ============================================================ > >> circumlocution \sir-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn\, noun: The use of many words > >> to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or > >> roundabout language. > >> > >> > > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
