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i am thinking of buying an apple laptop.
would you recommend buying apple vs sony, ibm, or dell?
would you recommend buying apple vs sony, ibm, or dell?
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The pmcia issue could be annoying if you already have cards bought but I know the MBP line has an express card slot(I don't remember if the base line macbook has one) which are better as they have their own separate and wider bandwidth then pmcia which has to share the usb bus. Pmcia is actually going to be a dead standard soon even in PC laptops. There are too many potential bus conflicts with poorly written usb drivers and , increasingly, mobile broadband speed requirements need the bandwidth of an uncluttered express lane. As per the right click, I gotta admit Mac just needs to get over it and build in the stupidity old right click button. In the meantime, you can right click on an MBP by doing a quick double fingered tap on the pad. You have to set it up in the mouse control panel though. It is still NOT as nice as is a separate button though. You can also buy a separate mouse wireless or wired and right click like normal. But, truth be told, I miss the right click button more than anything else on my mbp. Overall, however, the rest of the advantages far outweigh it in the end.
Oh wait. I do agree the touchpad has one single button BUT you can enable it to emulate the second button (this happens when you put TWO fingers on the touchpad and click). You can do that under System Preferences.
The third button that we all use for scrolling, is emulated as well! Just use two fingers on the touchpad to 'scroll down'.
I have a MacBook and a Sony Vaio at home. After I got used to right click using the two fingers on the touchpad and to scroll that way as well, I can tell you, there is nothing more natural than that. It is a masterpiece of design using a single button for the mouse! Amazing.
For the PCMCIA slot, that is true. It has no slot for that. But to be honest, I have it on the Sony and I have NEVER used. The only thing I could think of that could be helpful is a 3G Wireless card but as these are available as USB, I really cannot think on anything these days that is PCMCIA only and not USB or ExpressCARD (PCMCIA is in a way obsolete - the new cards are called ExpressCard and are the standard on the new, higher end machines as the MacBook Pro).
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
The third button that we all use for scrolling, is emulated as well! Just use two fingers on the touchpad to 'scroll down'.
I have a MacBook and a Sony Vaio at home. After I got used to right click using the two fingers on the touchpad and to scroll that way as well, I can tell you, there is nothing more natural than that. It is a masterpiece of design using a single button for the mouse! Amazing.
For the PCMCIA slot, that is true. It has no slot for that. But to be honest, I have it on the Sony and I have NEVER used. The only thing I could think of that could be helpful is a 3G Wireless card but as these are available as USB, I really cannot think on anything these days that is PCMCIA only and not USB or ExpressCARD (PCMCIA is in a way obsolete - the new cards are called ExpressCard and are the standard on the new, higher end machines as the MacBook Pro).
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
Yea, that is basically what I was saying but while I have retrained myself to the two finger tap wile on my mbp I find that I have to hit hard enough that if I do it enough too many times in a row, I my fingerpads get a little numb. I still wish jobs would just get over it and add the right click button.
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