Macs own 50% of the Marketshare??

[Bob Noel]

I have two and three button mice on all my macs.

 

[mikea]

Keynote (iLife*) reads/writes Power Point
Numbers (iLife*) reads/writes Excel
Pages (iLife*) reads/writes Word
Bento ($49) reads/writes Access
*iLife $89
also included in iLife is iWeb

Now Open Office is available Mac native. Free. Open Source. Reads and writes MS Office files.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/15/OpenOfficeorg_launches_first_native_Mac_OS_X_suite_1.html

And of course, also available for Windows and Linux and Unix...
http://www.openoffice.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

 

[mikea]

2 buttons on the mouse vs one button. I like 2 buttons.

The first to do is use or buy a new mouse, especiallysince with my buddy's new iMac I learned that the current standard Mac chicklet keyboard and wired "Mighty Mouse" are designed for show rather than use.

BTW, buy the the refurb Logitech set from "The Reforger" and it works works fine on a Mac, 'cept you get most but not all of the keyboard functions, ...'cept my mouse stoped working but I'll get it replaced.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000AY5ZIS/tag=thepilotcast-20

 

[jesse]

2 buttons on the mouse vs one button. I like 2 buttons.

The actual Apple mouses may only look like they have one button but they actually detect a right and left click somehow. The laptops only have one physical button but you can right click by just tapping with two fingers. It really isn't an issue.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

The actual Apple mouses may only look like they have one button but they actually detect a right and left click somehow. The laptops only have one physical button but you can right click by just tapping with two fingers. It really isn't an issue.

Or, holding two fingers on the trackpad and clicking.

Also, the new laptops that came out this week, there's no distinct button - The entire trackpad is the button, and yes it does "click" (I was originally afraid they were only doing tap-to-click, which I hate, but the whole thing is an actual button with tactile feedback). They said that there is a software preference for that trackpad to sense two "buttons."

 

[flyersfan31]

Go figure.

I haven't used a Mac since I bought my hotrod 512k Fat Mac (with a double sided internal drive!!!!!). I upgraded it myself to a whopping 1meg of RAM. Whoo-boy that was a screamer!!