Actually most Mac mice, magic ones included, all invoke the contextual menu same as other ones...kb shortcuts are also extremely useful on a mac. Spotlight search, (cmd-space) while evil on a fileserver, I cannot do without.
All said and done, Macs are user friendly. Just not sysadmin-friendly, despite what Matt says :) And if he's willing to trade tips I may not have come across in managing them in the enterprise, I'm all ears On 9/9/10 12:00 AM, "Ben Scott" <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: >> But tended to be somewhat less capable for power users. No right button >> context menus, ugh. > > I'm told that if you hook a mouse with more than one button up to a > Mac, the right button will actually bring up a context menu for some > things. Haven't tried it. > > I think context menus are a wonderful thing, greatly contributing to > ease-of-use, and I don't get why Apple is so dead set against them. > Prolly just Not Invented Here syndrome. > >> And less shortcut key combos. > > I've notice that Microsoft seems determined to take away (or at > least make harder to find/use) shortcut keys. Vista makes it very > hard to find the "show shortcut keys" option (whatever it's actually > called), and even when enabled, it doesn't seem to work consistently. > :-p > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
