I’ve been using Mac OS X consistently since around November of 2005. Overall, the experience has been good. I’ll list some of the good and the bad.
The pros: – Everything is in your user directory, there is no registry – The look and feel are excellent – Laptop integration is excellent – Everything generally works well – Networking / wifi works without issue – Firewire support is excellent, it is how I do backups – Peer to Peer wifi works great – Unix!
The cons: – The lack of good keyboard shortcuts limits productivity – The lack of a second mouse button on the system is disappointing (even NeXT had two mouse buttons)
You might want to pick up an Apple Mighty Mouse. It may not look like it, but it has 3 buttons and a 2d scroll wheel.
I have tried those, and I didn’t like the mouse. I find Microsoft or Logitech mice to be the best.
Still, the problem is that this is a laptop, and I don’t want to lag a mouse around. I want to keep my hands on the keyboard.
I use a MS wheel USB mouse, and I use the the right click all the time. Obviously it depends on the application for context, like in firefox, I get back, copy, ect. I too love os x, I’ve been using it about the same amount of time as you. My PC died late last month, and I havn’t been strongly motivated to replace it. While working ont his mac mini is about 60% the speed of my old PC I still get more done. This $600 mini replaced my old SGI Indy which was my web and mail server for about 5 years, at about a quarter of the cost. I may actually get a new intel mini to use as a desktop and just leave this as a server. But I think I have to have a PC, just to remind me how badly it sucks. |-
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Yep, I hear you. I must say that the Intel macs feel a bit faster in some operations.
When Vista comes out, I’ll get a copy of it just to keep current.