Conventions
 

I never understood why Macs had the one button mouse. First thing I did even before I got OS X 10.0 was throw away the puck and get the M$ 5 button optical wheel thing.

With one button it takes both hands to use the mouse. I'd have to put down the expresso. :D

On the other hand the Mac CR LF thing seems to be correct where I come from. PC files always had the lines all run together. Whereas imported Mac files always looked right.

And of course multitasking in OS X works mostly right. (I am used to the Amiga where priorities were set in the meta data .info file. So programs always ran at the selected priority rather than having to be reniced.)

So I could run the Lattice (SAS C) compiler in the background and still do anything else.

I don't think we need another 1 versus 2 button mouse thing, but for the mac to come with 1 button makes perfect sense.

How many times have I heard from my grandmother "right or left click? huh?". It gets really hard to give instructions: "click this, no not with that button, the other, now with the first, go to properties... no the other button."

For a power user it makes no sense to have just one button, but power users can spend the $20 bucks and get a very nice two button with scroll-wheel. The same way power users get bigger HD and more RAM and PowerMates, etc. etc.

By coming with a one button mouse, there's still a commitment to making most of the OS accesible from the one button, instead of relying on the second button as the only way to get to a certain menu or interface. Right click works as a shortcut for power users, not as a necessity for every day computing.

If the OS didn't support two button mice out of the box, then there'd be an issue. But as it stands, with great support with just plugging in, I find it to be a non-issue.


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mouse acceleration
 

You hate the fact that the slower you move your mouse, the slower the cursor moves?????

That's how it's supposed to work!!!!
Let's see....the faster I move my hand, the faster the paintbrush moves.....makes sense
also....the faster I move my arm, the faster the baseball moves once I release it....boy that sounds right.....
the list goes on and on.

The first time I used a Windows PC (after three or four years of casual Mac use), I thought that it behaved like a broken Mac because there was no 1:1 relationship between the speed I moved the mouse and the speed the cursor moved around the desktop...

The cursor is supposed to be an extension of the hand moving the mouse...as goes the hand, so goes the cursor.

leave those algorithims for Mac mouse acceleration alone!!!!!