mikec

brandon...I'm still not clear.....are you very fluent in XP or not? heheheh. You don't need to keep saying it.

why doesn't a new mac just come with a damn 2 or 3 button mouse? everyone just says "buy one", but if these machines come with the instructions as put in this thread "plug in, power on", then why would you need to buy a mouse separately? and for the price, I don't see why you would have to add on. Dell/Compaq provides a 2 button mouse w/a scroll wheel, why not the mac? It's the little touch that means so much.

and you can't do it all w/just one mouse button...it's one mouse button, AND the keyboard, damnit. apple+click, right?

IMO, the bottom line is:

I build, but even if I didn't, Mac vs. Dell, dollar for dollar, is a no win situation for the mac. And nothing has to be assembled w/the dell either.

Windows gets a bad rap, because 90% of the world uses it, so yes, there are more trojans, virus', etc. Now if Mac did what Windows does, and made it so it could work on 1000's of different hardware configs, perhaps that % would drop. Linux is still difficult for the layman, which is why more people are not using it, and honestly, macs are too expensive, which is why more people are not using them. If mac had the guts to make their system work with my pc config, I would try running OSX. Until then, I will not waste my money on sub-par hardware to run the mac OS. XP and 2kadvanced server have been nothing but good to me.

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