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Posted by Brian Boutel on 04/14/06 00:41
nappy wrote:
> "Brian Boutel" <fake@fake> wrote in message news:443ec79e@clear.net.nz...
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>>David McCall wrote:
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>>>OK, so you can run XP on a Mac,
>>>but not until you get a mouse with more buttons :-)
>>>
>>>I think that the biggest thing that has kept me away from Macs
>>>has been the lack of a right mouse button. I'm no good at
>>>remembering keyboard shortcuts, or what menu has what.
>>>
>>>Being able to go to the part of the screen where I want to do
>>>something and then pressing the right mouse button will bring
>>>up a context sensitive menu of most of the things I would want
>>>to do from that part of the screen. It works for me.
>>>
>>>Is there a way to connect a PC PS-2 keyboard and mouse to a Mac Mini?
>>>
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>>Have you been asleep?
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> not owning a mac.. he may not know that . And since all of the images and
> ads for the mac show that single button mouse..
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>>Although Apple provide a single-button mouse as standard, they sell
>>multi-button mice - the Mighty Mouse.
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> one would think they would simply include that as part of their product.
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Perhaps they will, eventually.
>>OSX supports 3-button/scroll wheel mice out of the box.
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> I would say .. yes.. it does support it but my experience is that OSX is
> still targeted towards a single button mouse. I may feel that way because I
> expect responses almost all of the time when using the right btns in Windows
> and on the Mac it somply wasn't standard operation in all apps.
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I have not found an app where right-click and control-click are not
treated the same.
--brian
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