Posted by nappy on 04/13/06 22:11

"Brian Boutel" <fake@fake> wrote in message news:443ec79e@clear.net.nz...
> David McCall wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Have you been asleep?

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..

>
> Although Apple provide a single-button mouse as standard, they sell
> multi-button mice - the Mighty Mouse.

one would think they would simply include that as part of their product.

> OSX supports 3-button/scroll wheel mice out of the box.

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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