Hey all,
I bought my first Mac ever 2 weeks ago (Ibook G4 1.2), mainly because I'm doing a traineeship in Switzerland for 3 months, and needed a computer, and a laptop is something I could continue to use when I get back.
Bought it mainly for size, battery life and of course looks
. Plus, I wanted to try a new platform. Though its performance isn't quite up to my machine back home, I'm very pleased with it so far, specially after I got a 512MB stick for it.
So far I'm very impressed with OS X and find myself sorely missing Exposé on my work computer.
Then I found myself needing a mouse, and though I breefly considered the Apple BT mouse, one button IS NOT enough. I mean c´mon, the OS is obviously built for 2 buttons...there is no way to open a link in a new tab or save a picture with one button (OK, you can assign a corner to show desktop, then select the picture, drag it, go to the corner, drop it on your download folder, and go to the corner again....but come on ) And when you have a coffee in your left hand, its very annoying to keep setting it down all the time to hold the ctrl button Not to mention the lack scroll wheel...dragging scroll bars feels sooo wrong.
So I bought a Logitech V500 mouse, which at first I was VERY dissapointed in, since frankly the Logitech drivers sucked, but then I found USB Overdrive, and could finally use the horizontal scroll!
I can also recommend XGestures, which promptly cured the lack of back/forward buttons on my mouse.
So now I´m very happy with my Mac and look forward to to using it for a while...at least until I get that Yonah-Powerbook .
I bought my first Mac ever 2 weeks ago (Ibook G4 1.2), mainly because I'm doing a traineeship in Switzerland for 3 months, and needed a computer, and a laptop is something I could continue to use when I get back.
Bought it mainly for size, battery life and of course looks
. Plus, I wanted to try a new platform. Though its performance isn't quite up to my machine back home, I'm very pleased with it so far, specially after I got a 512MB stick for it. So far I'm very impressed with OS X and find myself sorely missing Exposé on my work computer.
Then I found myself needing a mouse, and though I breefly considered the Apple BT mouse, one button IS NOT enough. I mean c´mon, the OS is obviously built for 2 buttons...there is no way to open a link in a new tab or save a picture with one button (OK, you can assign a corner to show desktop, then select the picture, drag it, go to the corner, drop it on your download folder, and go to the corner again....but come on
) And when you have a coffee in your left hand, its very annoying to keep setting it down all the time to hold the ctrl button Not to mention the lack scroll wheel...dragging scroll bars feels sooo wrong.So I bought a Logitech V500 mouse, which at first I was VERY dissapointed in, since frankly the Logitech drivers sucked, but then I found USB Overdrive, and could finally use the horizontal scroll!
I can also recommend XGestures, which promptly cured the lack of back/forward buttons on my mouse.
So now I´m very happy with my Mac and look forward to to using it for a while...at least until I get that Yonah-Powerbook
.
