Comments on: Accidental purchase

By: J Duncan

J Duncan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:20:51 +0000

Nice! You can ‘right click’ by holding ctrl and clicking btw. More of a windows person myself, but a mac has it’s advantages.

By: Olly

Olly — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:32:13 +0000

Nah, it’s rubbish! ;-)

By: T1

T1 — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:10:07 +0000

Tell you what my ex work Dell C610 for not a lot of cash at all is the best not a lot of cash I think I have ever spent !

By: SimonB

SimonB — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:10:31 +0000

Should have bought a Dell. Mine is ace :)

By: matt

matt — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:39:55 +0000

Get work to buy you one. :)

By: Olly

Olly — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:40:58 +0000

That would mean buying a legal copy of Windows ;-)

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:35:42 +0000

Bootcamp? :-)

By: matt

matt — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:31:36 +0000

“The old Powerbooks didn’t and it catches me out every time and I end up sitting staring at the screen wondering why nothing is happening”

You can tap it, you just need to tell the computer you want to, most people disable it… coz it’s dead annoying.

(I’m waiting for the Mac Pro to arrive / my powerbook to explode, before updating)

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:43:31 +0000

Do they still have the plastic covering fans and causing burning thing going on? A laptop that you cant actually put on your lap… clever.

By: Ben Ward

Ben Ward — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 22:45:07 +0000

Regarding the trackpad and right clicking and stuff: I believe the new MacBooks/Pros allow you to place two fingers on the trackpad and click the button to right click (rather than stretching for Control). My older iBook supports this with a 3rd party driver too and I’ve reached the point where I prefer it over PC based laptops twin buttons, as I tend to hit it right in the middle. Much more comfy I find.

Also, the trackpad click/click-drag is configurable (disableable) from System Preferences. I have it just set to click (not drag), although this can be annoying if you’re new to laptops generally as your thumb will nudge it when you’re typing and move the carat.

Finally, text editing is now being done with TextMate for me. It’s lovely and very well behaved as regards integration with the OSX user experience is concerned. TextWrangler (the free version of BBEdit) irritates me with its odd UI and excessively mahoosive menus. Definitely give TextMate’s 30 day trial a good run and then see if anything else compares. Smultron might be worth a look too (and is free).

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:20:43 +0000

oh yes, sorry and Quicksilver is a must.

By: matthew

matthew — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:19:56 +0000

congrats..
as for text editor

SubEthaEdit or Textwranger are my choices, simply google for em.

By: Olly

Olly — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:11:10 +0000

I seem to have taken to apple-c/v fine so far and the trackpad doesn’t do the tap thing.

I’d heard about the discolouration thing - i’m not too worried about that to be honest. All of my stuff looks a mess within a few days of me buying it anyway ;-)

By: Weon

Weon — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:59:51 +0000

Me again. Make sure you don’t actually touch your MacBook http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2516244

By: Weon

Weon — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:47:02 +0000

Also, do the MacBooks have a tap of the trackpad as a mouse click? The old Powerbooks didn’t and it catches me out every time and I end up sitting staring at the screen wondering why nothing is happening, frantically tapping the track pad!