No - it does not have a wart.
I've Moved To Mac
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My Mac Mini is an older one - even got one of those
Ian Osborne
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You have the older one, then.
(This is the wired version, but the wireless model looks the same)
(This is the wired version, but the wireless model looks the same)
Well the same only without a wire....
Ohmer
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Imagine for a moment that Microsoft decided that the entire Microsoft Office suit would come pre-installed with all copies of Windows. You don't get a choice, it comes with the OS. Do you think they would be allowed to do that without a fight? The US justice department intervened when Microsoft tried to put IE on the desktop of all Windows installations.
Macs come with whole bunch of "i" software pre-installed and already in the doc. The consumer doesn't get a choice. This is praised as making the machine more useful out of the box. Two different companies, two different sets of rules. If Apple had a bigger share of the market it would probably be different.
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That thing feels just like pregnant cat's nipple. I'll keep my wheel.
To be fair, the cat nipple allows you to scroll horizontally as well a vertically. My wheel does not.
And that's why I like it.
When it works. It tends to stop scrolling verticaly and you can't open the damn mouse to clean the ball mechanism. My coworker nevertheless opened his mouse with a box cutter, tried to fix it, failed, and glued it back together. It's in the closet now and he doesn't work there anymore.
No no, he found a better job, he wasn't fired for ruining the mouse.
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This is my biggest complaint about Apple hardware in general. I want a button to eject my CD(the internal optical drives actually have buttons, they are just covered up). I want a volume knob. I want a light to tell me when the hard drive is working. I want to be able to see the power button. I want to be able to plug in a USB device without having to crawl behind the machine. I want a mouse that fits in my hand and gives me some kind if tactile feedback when I do something with it. I use my machine I don't admire it from across the room. I want a Humvee, not a Hummer! |
Scratch that. I'll take a hummer.
Ian Osborne
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Modern Macs have FireWire and USB ports on the front of the casing now - I guess that was one function that was just too useful to pass over. And the optical drive eject button is on the keyboard.
Fair point about the mouse, though - that's why I use a Saitek.
Fair point about the mouse, though - that's why I use a Saitek.
Some day, I'll tell you what we call a Trackpoint.
Form over function = Piss on the user.
You ever installed a device on Windows without having the right driver handy? Of discover that your favourite/most useful device is no longer supported after a mandatory "security" upgrade?
That's what happens when no-one follows the published Windows standard, least of all the publisher, and that standard changes at some Redmond nerd's whim anyway. You do know Microsoft has big shares in Intel?
As opposed to Apple, where the standard is enforced...so things DO work, and CONTINUE to work, even after many upgrades. Call it limiting the possibilities, sure. But the function DOES follow the form.
Kevin_Lowe
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The overwhelming majority of third-party Mac applications look and feel just like the Apple applications, they cut and paste between each other just fine and so forth. There are clear guidelines for developers and most developers follow them. It's nothing to do with whether the actual software is written by Apple or not.
As for the antitrust issue, the problem with Explorer bundling was not so much that they were bundling a browser, but that the browser was not standards-compliant. Bundling Explorer was an attempt to make their (crappy) browser the de facto standard, replacing the existing open standards. That was exactly the kind of manoeuvre which antitrust laws were written to prevent.
Thanks to the intervention of the US government we now have a variety of good browsers to choose from and they all work with almost all web pages. Back in the day I used to regularly come across pages which would only work with Explorer, but thankfully that has not happened in years.
If Explorer had been standards-compliant I very much doubt it would have been seen as being any more problematic than Solitaire or Minesweeper.
I still think the earlier poster was probably a troll, trying to start a Microsoft/Mac flame war just for giggles.
You ever installed a device on Windows without having the right driver handy? Of discover that your favourite/most useful device is no longer supported after a mandatory "security" upgrade?
That's what happens when no-one follows the published Windows standard, least of all the publisher, and that standard changes at some Redmond nerd's whim anyway. You do know Microsoft has big shares in Intel?
As opposed to Apple, where the standard is enforced...so things DO work, and CONTINUE to work, even after many upgrades. Call it limiting the possibilities, sure. But the function DOES follow the form.
I didn't say that function doesn't follow form. I said that when you put form over function - letting the design get in the way of, or have higher priority than, functionality - then you piss on the user.
arthwollipot
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I started on a Mac. Well, if you don't count the TRS-80 and Microbee.
When I first decided to start using a computer for my assignments I walked into the IBM lab, sat down at a machine and looked at it.
It said "A:\_"
And that was all.
I got up and went next door to the Mac lab. Someone showed me how to put a boot disk in and click on things to make them work. I never set foot again into the IBM lab.
These days, it's all a matter of opinion and preference. There's no functional reason to choose Mac over Windows, or vice versa. They can both do the same stuff. Sure, there are more viruses and stuff for Windows - a legacy of the market share. It's all about what you like.
Personally I use the right-click menu in Windows an awful lot. Meh, that's just me. Whatever. It really doesn't matter. Choose what you like.
When I first decided to start using a computer for my assignments I walked into the IBM lab, sat down at a machine and looked at it.
It said "A:\_"
And that was all.
I got up and went next door to the Mac lab. Someone showed me how to put a boot disk in and click on things to make them work. I never set foot again into the IBM lab.
These days, it's all a matter of opinion and preference. There's no functional reason to choose Mac over Windows, or vice versa. They can both do the same stuff. Sure, there are more viruses and stuff for Windows - a legacy of the market share. It's all about what you like.
Personally I use the right-click menu in Windows an awful lot. Meh, that's just me. Whatever. It really doesn't matter. Choose what you like.
That's why.
Don't forget the much bigger selection of software for the pc.