[Techtalk] Success story (brag?)

[Rebecca J. Walter]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 19:35, Dave North wrote:


> 	2. The Really Really Bad Thing is they ship their laptops with a
> one-button mouse. They probably have to pay some company extra to make
> such a wheezing old piece of crap with which to hobble their powerbooks.
> In fact, there is no more damning criticism of the apple notebooks than
> that a buyer is now Permanently Stuck with a useless one-button system
> unless they want to tote an additional mouse ... not available from Apple.
> 	Now that's Really Really Stupid.
> 	This from a company somehow reputed to understand marketing.
> 	Feh. Not only does the emperor have no clothes, he has bad skin.
> 

I can right and middle click on my ibook running SuSE without an
external mouse... but it is a bit inconvenient sometimes.  I have to use
the function key normally so it isn't one handed clicking.  Basically my
other mouse buttons are mapped to two of the F keys.  Despite the mouse
inconvenience, I got a faster box at that time than I could have gotten
in a regular pc laptop for the same money.  Also it was a hell of a lot
easier than trying to find a regular laptop without eeky Windows.