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Why I will send back my brand new iMac...

No offence to the OP but it sounds more like buyers remorse then anything.

As others have stated the mouse is completely adjustable.

As for office, Openoffice or Neo office IMO is much much better then MS Office and I use MS office daily. Correction, I used to use MS Office daily but since Neo and Open office are 100% compatible with Office 2007 (actually I know neo is and I use it more, not sure about open office) I use those two all the time. My coworkers on MS office see no difference and cant tell I'm not using MS office.
 
I think the OP made a hasty decision...expecting everything to work like windows. Mouse sensitivity can be adjusted and there are several alternatives to the Office suite.

Its no secret that Finder isn't the fastest file system browser out there and Apple are already addressing this by rewriting it in Cocoa for Snow Leopard. You could also use Path Finder in the interim

However if it simply doesn't work for you then use what does.
 
I agree with the OP. I hate the MightyMouse too, when I connect my Razor (that's a mouse :p) I'm a happy camper (but its not wireless).

I also hate the fact that Apple does not allow us European people to order a US layout wireless keyboard.

Maybe you can change this somewhere....but I use the tab-key to brows through input-boxes on webpages, Safari doesnt do that.

It's a shame that Apple doesn't use audio over DisplayPort...

I use my MacMini as HTPC and it does a great job at it but I dont think I would ever use OSX as an operating system for my PC.
 
So...he bought a customized 24" iMac, and loved everything about, except the mouse, and returned it...yyyaaaaaa.....ooookkkkayyyyyy

Good luck with that PC! LOL
 
The OP won't be missed by the Mac community.

At the very least, did you not even bother to walk into an Apple store and try one out if you'd never used one before?

Stick to PCs, you sound far more suited to them anyway.
 
This is just a post of some Mac-basher. His arguments are a joke. Any Logitech mouse can be adjusted the same as under Windows, if the drivers are installed of course.

And if you're so attached to Office 2007 (which most people don't like) then stick w/ a PC. Office for Mac IMO s*cks because MS doesn't know how to write software.
 
If you have also a legitimate version of Adobe CS4 studio installed which you transferred from PC > Mac then you'll not be allowed back either
 
I'm glad the OP is not basing his decision on a real problem; that being the freezing. I don't recall him experiencing that. Perhaps he can eBay it and get more money by offering it up as a non-freezing iMac.

In seriousness to the OP, I have been a Windows guy for over 20 years and just switched to Mac within the last few weeks. Even receiving a freezing iMac made me waver but I stuck with it. I got a Mini too and love it. Now I have my replacement iMac and so far it is unbelievable. Mouse? HA! I have used computers for so long, my right hand thumb shakes due to mouse work and adjusting the sensitivity of the mighty mouse in System Preferences as another poster mentioned is what kept my sanity during transition.

Goodbye Windows. Hello Mac.
 
I must admit I have had more problems with my iMac since I got it then I had on my custom PC running Vista it's entire life. I have not had the freezing issue, but I've had problems.

I had to format the hard drive when Bootcamp setup went bad. I had a SBBoD on the hole system and had to powerdown the system. I had to restore from restore from Time Machine after the system stopped booting. Finally Time Machine stopped working and I had to rebuild the sparsebundle.

I was told that Mac's don't have problems, that everything just works. My experience is so far is that that is BS. Mac's are just like any other computer and they have there share of problems. But there is no way I would return my iMac.
 
DELTAsnake said:
I was told that Mac's don't have problems, that everything just works. My experience is so far is that that is BS. Mac's are just like any other computer and they have there share of problems. But there is no way I would return my iMac.
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For this reason I'm holding off w/ my 4850 iMac purchase until all child diseases are ironed out. Also Apple is gonna drive the prices down of the Macbooks and iMacs this first quarter to make these products more competitive.
 
I bought my mac (20") on Tuesday. Did I have problems? Yes. But I also bought Applecare & the one to one. I called the applecare people and always received an answer plus they were very nice. I am having fits with iWork spreadsheet and pages but will figure it out someday.
I have used windows for years but got tired of the way it crashed etc. I'll stick with the mac. The wife and I love it!!
 
Mouse curve adjustment?

Consultant said:
LOL. Just because you don't know how to use something doesn't mean it's not a good product.

The default mouse curve for OSX is set for PRECISION WORK. It can be changed if you want the windows mousing curve.
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Where is this mouse curve adjustment? All I could find was speed.

Even with speed on max I don't like the response. Seems like it's missing acceleration. If there's an actual curve adjustment that should do the trick.

Thanks.
 
i also hated the mouse speed curve. I found the solution to the problem!

Steermouse! I tweaked it so its perfect! And with my Logitech g5 i am happy!:D
 
For those of you getting snippy with the OP, put your brakes on. He freely admits that he believes OSX is better and that the design and build of the machine is awesome. However, based on his current usage patterns he's not ready to make the move. Just because someone doesn't rave about something you are passionate about doesn't mean they are putting you down. People adjust to change in different ways and at different speeds. I have no doubt Aucun Express that if you get a mac mini or something else and ease into the transition that you will eventually find yourself proficient and happy with being a mac owner/user. Besides there's no unwritten law that you have to pick a platform and stick only to it. Lots of us use both, whether it's a work/home split or a program specific need. Remember, a computer is a tool. Use it for your specific wants/needs and don't worry about any negativity you get from others.
 
mscriv said:
For those of you getting snippy with the OP, put your brakes on. He freely admits that he believes OSX is better and that the design and build of the machine is awesome. However, based on his current usage patterns he's not ready to make the move. Just because someone doesn't rave about something you are passionate about doesn't mean they are putting you down. People adjust to change in different ways and at different speeds. I have no doubt Aucun Express that if you get a mac mini or something else and ease into the transition that you will eventually find yourself proficient and happy with being a mac owner/user. Besides there's no unwritten law that you have to pick a platform and stick only to it. Lots of us use both, whether it's a work/home split or a program specific need. Remember, a computer is a tool. Use it for your specific wants/needs and don't worry about any negativity you get from others.
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Excellent post, there have been some borderline moronic posts to the OP and I salute him for replying in a mature and explanatory fashion, as if he needed to expand on his disposition further anyway. I suggest anyone who gave such halfhearted and sarcastic answers to the OP apologize immediately.
 
From the article linked to by the OP (http://db.tidbits.com/article/8893):

“There is no setting in Mac OS X itself to modify the acceleration curve. Sometimes, well-meaning users suggest modifying the Tracking Speed setting in the Keyboard & Mouse pane in System Preferences, but that doesn't provide a complete solution. The problem isn't speed, per se, but the acceleration curve. Changing the tracking speed does not change the shape of that curve. It just makes the whole curve smaller or larger, rather like using a telephoto lens (or a wide angle lens) to take a photograph of the same cliff from the same location.”

I’m new to the Mac world having had a Mac Mini for just over a month. I love it and rarely boot into my PC. I was wondering, however, what was going on with the mouse tracking…it just seemed off to me. I adjusted the settings which made it better (faster tracking) but it still seemed off. I chalked it up to another Mac vs Windows thing and it’s all a matter of what you’re used to (similar to text rendering). I’m glad I read this thread b/c it sheds light on my subtle and mysterious mouse behavior.
 
Sorry, just to clarify. You're sending the iMac back because of the Mighty Mouse and the keyboard?

I picked up the mouse point, which others have said you could have tinkered with in the Mouse tab under System Preferences. I picked up issues with the keyboard from you mentioning typing code in Dreamweaver.

Could you not just pick up a chunkier keyboard with less notebook like keys?

Seems a shame to send a computer back because of peripherals.
 
You know, I actually thought the same thing when I tried the iMac in some Apple Stores. I remember myself at the New York Apple Store (this store is the center of the Earth to me!) and testing the iMac and the iPhone.
I also had this strange feeling about the OS and the mouse.
I went to the New York Apple Store, San Francisco Apple Store, the Apple Stores in my country. This last year, I kept thinking about my switch over Mac. I kept bashing Windows and was writing some Excel sheets in order to decide which Mac I should buy.

I travelled the US for a few months and the very first thing I did when I came back to my country was to go to an Orange Store and buy the iPhone. When I switched it on, it was perfect. I instantly loved everything of it.
Compared to the BlackBerry and all those crappy phones, it was just perfect. And it still is.

I thought that the switch to Mac OS X would be the same. I think I saw like 1,000 times the presentation video of the MacBook, with the Coldplay music. I almost know it by heart "The MacBook is our most popular Mac, but what we've... what we've done is we've decided... just to start over..."
It is one of the best product video in the all History of advertisement campaigns.

That is why it is even more sad. I didn't just thought "Hey, I don't like the mouse, I'll change it." I thought about my daily work and I rationalized things, against my envy. And my deepest envy is having an iMac and a MacBook. But this mouse drove me insane for 7 days... (let alone the very bad MightyMouse).
For those saying that I should change the preferences, I kept doing this for hours. But you can only change the speed, not the curve.
If I try to explain the feelings between the Mac OS curve and the Windows curve, it is as if the Windows way of moving the mouse was with straight lines and that the Mac OS X way was with small curves instead of lines.
I am overanalyzing this, but even after 7 days of intense tryout, even after installing MouseFix, USB Overdrive, Speed something, it was still the same thing.

This is a coincidence, but this afternoon one of my clients came to my office with his MacBook Air (he bought it because of me, the day I saw the presentation of Steve Jobs, I called this client and told him that it would be great for his work, because he was thinking of buying one of those ****** netbooks).
So, I tried the trackpad this afternoon and the way the mouse is moving is extremely precise. Moving the mouse on the Trackpad was like heaven! It really follows the finger, I had the same feeling as when I'm moving my real mouse on Windows. But as soon as you plug an external mouse (I tried a few Logitech's and a Dell mouse), the precision is lost for a strange curve way.
This is not my imagination, the precision between the Trackpad and an external mouse on Windows is about the same (even if you can see a bit of a difference, but very little). This is the real way of moving a mouse (for me at least), I find it very precise.
But I'm almost sure that if I used a Mac for 15 years and that I tried a Windows, I would think the opposite. But reality is that I used a PC for 15 years... This counts.

About the "heavy feel" (other than the mouse), I'll try to explain. A good example of it is when you are using any software on a PC and then you are using iTunes (still on a PC). You can clearly see that iTunes has this heavy and slow feeling to it. When you click on a menu (especially on the left bar), it isn't "snappy" at all.

As I am now looking at the iMac box (with the iMac in it this time), I keep thinking that I am may be doing the wrong choice. This object was just perfection in my home.

Those last few years, I've become very interested in perfection, whether it is in the IT design or the program layouts.
When Steve Jobs laughed at the phones buttons when doing the first presentation of the iPhone, and explaining that every application should be able to have its own menu, I thought about the top bar. I don't like this in Mac OS. And the Office 2008 for Mac VS the Office 2007 is a pretty good example.
Everything that was great in the PC version (according to me) cannot be done completely in the Mac version, mainly because of the top menu bar. Yes, I like the ribbon very much and the way Mac OS is created, a ribbon is against it...
Then, the way that Windows "shouldn't be opened completely" or that the applications don't close when you click on the "X" button. When I analyze things, I think that the best way of doing it is the Windows 7 way, which is kind of a best of between the Dock and the usual task bar.
Something that is alos extremely annoying is the Fn button that is on the bottom left of the keyboard. The (ugly) IBM Lenovo ThinkPad are the same and it just sucks. You use far more the Ctrl button that the Fn button. And to find it without looking at the keyboard, it is far simplier to find the button that is on the far end of the keyboard.
That is why I prefer a Dell laptop keyboard for instance, VS a Mac keyboard.

When I did some Ctrl+Tab switch, if my memory is right, all the folder windows were under one single Finder icon. In Windows, you can see all the windows while doing Ctrl+Tab.

So, those were a few things that I found really annoying (and paying 4500 bucks for a computer and having a dead pixel... the moment I saw it, I kept looking at it). On the contrary, there are things I loved with my iMac:
- The remote,
- The media center,
- Time Machine (it cannot get better than this for personal backups, the guy who had the idea should get a medal, it is perfection: beautiful design+extremely useful),
- The design (everyone looking to it was like WOW!),
- The way it looks my iPhone is an extension of it,
- The beautiful screen savers,
- The cover flow in the Finder (great idea),
- The fact that there is no ****ing messy registry like on Windows and the way you install software,
- Boot Camp (the fact that you have the choice to have Windows + Mac OS X on a Mac, but not on a PC),
- Exposé (I so miss it, the Windows+Tab aero interface looks great, but no one uses it because it takes even more time to crawl windows with it),
- The way to have multiple desktops (this is on Linux since years! how can it not be in Windows yet?).

So, you can clearly see that I am not bashing Apple, this company means more to me than any other company in the world. This company is a true inspiration to me, really.

One last thing...
I have created a new product and will need a new laptop (a small one) that I will use mainly for doing presentations at clients (on beamers). Since I don't need a fast machine at all (it's only aimed to run PowerPoint presentations and surfing the Internet), a 13'' MacBook (with the lowest hardware) could be the solution. Or a netbook if they do one this year.
 
Aucun Express said:
I thought that the switch to Mac OS X would be the same. I think I saw like 1,000 times the presentation video of the MacBook, with the Coldplay music. I almost know it by heart "The MacBook is our most popular Mac, but what we've... what we've done is we've decided... just to start over..."
It is one of the best product video in the all History of advertisement campaigns.
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Mate, and I mean this with the utmost respect, but I think if you're guilty of one thing it's hyping Apple up too much in your own mind.

Yes, Apple users love their Macs, but we don't all proclaim Apple to be the be-all-and-end-all of companies and hang on their every (promotional) word.

You clearly bought into the Apple philosophy through the iPod and then the iPhone, but you've been so hooked on getting a Mac you've created a monster which would never have lived up to your expectations.

The Mac is better than a PC, but as every switcher will discover there is a learning curve. I'm helping my Father in Law right now after I sold him by previous Intel Core Duo (white) iMac. I can see the doubt on his face at times, but I'm urging him to simply play around in a non-destructive way!

I wouldn't give up because of how a mouse moves on screen. To me, a mouse is a mouse, but that's just me. There is a tab in System Preferences which allows you to not only change the speed and sensitivity of the cursor, but also which of the buttons on the Mighty Mouse access what.

Personally, as a long term Mac user I am used to the one button set up so both my left/right buttons are set as Primary mouse buttons with the scroll ball clicked giving access to Spaces. I prefer to have minimal commands on a mouse, as one wrong click and have God knows what function appearing on screen ... but again that's just me.

Don't give up on the Mac yet mate, it takes a little bit of time when switching but when it clicks ... it clicks good.
 
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