I mentioned the new Apple optical mice.
A) Apple was el stupido for insisting on a single-button mouse. !El Stupido!
B) Apple was UBER el stupido for coming up with a single-button mouse that looks like a hockey puck (or Japanese manju)! What the heck was THAT all about? The thing wouldn’t even fit right in a hand.
Kilgore – the day I got my graphite iMac, I went out to CompUSA and bought me a three-button mouse. I’m used to the wheeled mouse at work and no way will I go back to a single-button mouse. That’s just bad ergonomics.
When I bought my new G4 (3 weeks before the Macworld conference… Arrgh, and I could have bought a new dual-processor 450 for the same price) I ordered it with an IntelliMouse. I do love this thing - I use the back and forward buttons intuitively, and the scroll wheel’s wonderful. When I go downstairs and use my old computer (a G3/233 which is now my Dad’s), the keyboard feels awkward, and the mouse without a scroll wheel nearly drives me insane. So yeah, Microsoft did something right.
So can anyone explain the dual processor thing to me? WIll this make the computer faster or just able to perform more functions without slowing? Both?
MacOS 9 answer: It will make the computer faster if you are using a small select group of applications that were written with certain processing threads inherently designed to be passed to the second processor if one is present; and for certain types of threads (specifically those that do not interact with the GUI or I/O if I recall correctly) the OS can also farm out some tasks to the second processor, which makes it both faster and able to perform more concurrent functions without slowing but only under limited circumstances.
MacOS X answer: Yes, and yes. This baby is a fully multi-threaded, pre-emptive multi-tasking, symmetric-multiprocessor supportive OS, and two 500s will feel almost twice as fast as one, and much more able to walk everywhere and chew many different flavors of gum concurrently.
red dragon,
Of COURSE there is nethack and rogue for the Mac. Sheesh.
haha. when was this the best NLE available?
mac NLEs crush NT NLEs.
to quote a friend… “one word: avid.”
don’t mention video editing in a mac debate, when you’re on the pc side.