Originally Posted by
SoManyMiles-SoLittleTime
Yes, Mac hardware is niftier looking, but the single button mouse is a mistake, the white case soaks up hand-sweat and is impossible to clean, there's a very annoying sharp edge right where your palm rests, and the OS has become annoyingly non-intuitive. And yes, I have three Mac laptops and at least as many PC laptops.
I totally disagree. I am now so used to the single button mouse on the laptop that it annoys the cr*p out of me when I sit and work with a client who happens to have PC laptop. nd what is this with that little joystick on the IBM and toshiba? (have had laptops from both of those).
At home I plug in the USB mightymouse which looks like a single button mouse but isn't. At the office I have a big trackball.
When I travel I just stick with what the laptop came with.
And - because it is unix based, slap x11 on it and you get access to a whole world of free software like openoffice, gimp etc.
Sure, when my first MBP had to be repaired twice and eventually PC world refunded me the cost of it I wandered in to an apple store and picked up a new C2D MBP for £50 less than the first one cost me last year. Later that night I started sweating and telling myself I was an idiot as I could have walked away with a PC laptop like Acer for £300 and kept £1100. However, that panicky feeling only lasted a few minutes when I started thinking of my previous life with PC comparing it to being a mac user.
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