nottipiglet
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But why? Most PC apps work perfectly fine with a 2 button operation. So my advise is, get over the 1-button mouse mentality. =)
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But why? Most PC apps work perfectly fine with a 2 button operation. So my advise is, get over the 1-button mouse mentality. =)
Can you tell me why I should get over the 2-button mouse mentality? Bcos my Mac comes with a 2button mouse and I find it convenient leh.
I surf net with only 1 hand, so pressing any combination of keyboard button + mouse-button is a hassle to me.
I am using my mac with 2 button mouse for the past 2 years.
PC apps work fine with 2 button doesn't mean it can be make easier and more productive with 1 button. Maybe 1 button usage has something that I dunno?
Let's wait for her reply to see why 1 button is better. Maybe I can learn a new trick :embrass:
nottipiglet
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I remember the evolution of the mouse. It came with 2 bottons... then there was 3... But 3 did not catch on... probably because the little finger is too weak to grip the mouse on its own. So we need the 4th finger to help. That leaves us with 2 free fingers to press buttons. After that some bright spark came up with the scroll wheel.
2 fingers can press at least 2 buttons. So 1 button is a waste. It's just bad design that will disappear with time.
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1) i didn't say it, i posed it as a question :blah:
2) i am a Mac user who happens to run Windows on my Mac as well. defensive? why should i defensive when i'm just stating facts. it's true Mac apps run perfectly ok with one-button mouse, so the issue about 2-button mouse is inconsequential. it's not a big deal, period.
haha, no time to dingding dongdong about this with you. i'm booking in tonight for in-camp~
so to TS, .... Be a man, do the Right thing :bsmilie: (joking)
are you sure you know what you are talking about? security stuff not available for the Mac?
just because the majority of home Mac users don't install them doesn't mean they are not available. it doesn't not mean it's not corporate/enterprise friendly either. have you checked out the servers Apple come out with?
not counterproductive? what are you talking about again? i thought you just said in post #55 that "My PC at work has hung before because those office people loaded it with all sorts of security stuff..."
so computer hanging is not counterproductive..then what is it?
look, i've been a Windows user and i've been a Mac user. i may not be expert at both platforms but i've seen for myself what works in which. do me a favour, if you are not familiar with Macs, don't go around making assumptions about the system.
haha, ok, let me clarify this.
when i said get over the one-button mouse mentality, what i was getting at is ... one-button mouse doesn't mean it's any less an effective or practical form of computing. different people different methods. i gave an example of myself getting through the entire photoshop session with a one-button mouse, for example. so get over the mentality that one-button mouse is something "something missing" or bad design etc. and as mentioned, Macs support conventional mice as well, so nobody is missing out on anything.
that's it gentlemen =)
Harry Potter
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I think for security what he meant is corporate security such as single-sign on, VPN, SSL, 2-factor, encryption, host IDS, PKI. Correct me if I'm wrong!!
Corporate security stuff as listed above are available for the Mac. Apple is known to be a company that focuses a lot on corporate security, and they operate a US$20 billion business. What do you think their employees use... PCs?
nottipiglet
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Yes... that's what I mean. Plus the HDD has to be encrypted with bootsafe or similar. So people can't get to the information if we lose our laptop.
As I mentioned... it's not counter productive. They are necessary evils. Not upgrading my laptop is counter-productive. If they did that, my laptop won't hang... but my company has budgeting issues.
So we see another self-righteous Mac user who thinks the whole IT evaluation process of my company is flawed because I'm not using a Mac at work. Btw... we do have a Mac in my company, for web design, video editing, etc...
Mac and PCs are good for different things at their various price points. Is that so difficult to understand/accept?
nottipiglet
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Tell my company to upgrade my laptop lor... so it won't hang.
If my company give me a Mac, I'd use it... but it costs more, and it does not do the work I need to do any better. So why should my company switch to a Mac?
Harry Potter
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As the sales people always do, show the customers statistic, papers, MTBF charts, graphs some IT research findings that using Mac has this and that and can increase productivity by X % :bsmilie:
nottipiglet
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My company's servers are run in either Windows or Linux. They probably never checked out the Apple servers because those IT boys are not cool? :dunno:
nottipiglet
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My productivity probably won't go up... but I can tell my company that I'd look cool with a Mac at the conferences they send me to. :bsmilie:
Harry Potter
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They probably dunno Apple got servers! :sweat: People in IT usually think of HP, IBM, Dell, Compaq servers first...
nottipiglet
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Their own corporate security stuff are obviously available to them at cost price. So that makes the decision simple, right?
Apple don't produce security software.
My point is, such security stuffs are available on Macs.
Harry Potter
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No meh? I thought got iFirewall, iPKI, iSSL, iVPN :bsmilie:
Haha, iWish
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how many of us have heard this before? someone raises a topic, for example, this one "Have been thinking of getting a Mac? Any strong reasons to move to Mac? Mac users out there, any opinions other than form factor?"
while the Mac users will be sharing their insights and experience on the platform - afterall, who else would do so - inevitably there will be some guy(s) who have negligible knowledge on the system (aka going into the Apple reseller, touch touch the keyboard, cannot find the right-click button, declares the Mac a frivolous, fanciful computer for act-cool people).
haha i agree i'm being wu-liao with this post, but i suppose this is the kind of answer that befits some of the posts here.
how many of us have heard this before? someone raises a topic, for example, this one "Have been thinking of getting a Mac? Any strong reasons to move to Mac? Mac users out there, any opinions other than form factor?"
while the Mac users will be sharing their insights and experience on the platform - afterall, who else would do so - inevitably there will be some guy(s) who have negligible knowledge on the system (aka going into the Apple reseller, touch touch the keyboard, cannot find the right-click button, declares the Mac a frivolous, fanciful computer for act-cool people).
haha i agree i'm being wu-liao with this post, but i suppose this is the kind of answer that befits some of the posts here.
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