26-10-2003 01:23									#1
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CNET Review

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jk about the part.

	26-10-2003 11:08									#2
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bump

	26-10-2003 11:10									#3
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Congratulations on the bump. Asher is around nowadays so he might take the bite.

	26-10-2003 11:56									#4
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We can tell this is a really HOT product here on Poly

	26-10-2003 14:15									#5
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What the hell?

quote: Though Apple's phone-support staff is friendly and relatively knowledgeable, toll-free phone support is available for only the first 90 days after purchasing a Power Mac G5--unless, that is, you sign up for the $249, three-year AppleCare warranty.

You pay an arm and a leg and you get ninety days of free support?

Falcon Northwest and Alienware both received higher than 8.7, btw.

	27-10-2003 03:49									#6
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*bump*

	27-10-2003 03:56									#7
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I really, really want it.

	27-10-2003 04:02									#8
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as do i, but i don't want to pay for it.

	27-10-2003 04:04									#9
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Monolith: What do you seriously think of the looks of it?

Also, on a random note, when will Apple join the 1990s and equip more than a single-button mouse with a $3000 computer?

	27-10-2003 04:06									#10
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Well, I haven't seen it in person, but I think it looks decent. Not as cool as I had hoped, but very respectable.

If I'm going to spend 3,000 bucks on a computer, I'm not going to quibble over a $20 mouse...

	27-10-2003 04:12									#11
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It's huge in person too, bigger than the case I just bought. I still think it looks like something from a 1950s movie on the "Home of the Future".

And isn't the point that if you spend $3,000 bucks on a computer it shouldn't come with a $2 mouse that was obsolete in 1990?

	27-10-2003 04:21									#12
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The point is that a mouse is so insignificant that its not worth arguing over.

	27-10-2003 04:49									#13
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I think the point is actually how much Apple emphasizes style over functionality.

	27-10-2003 07:27									#14
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well, if you want functionality, there's always the posix-standard cli.

	27-10-2003 13:43									#15
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I thought someone said its possible to use 2-button mouse in macs these days. What was all that about? And does anyone know why Apple stics with one button mouses anymore?

	27-10-2003 14:19									#16
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"does anyone know why Apple stics with one button mouses anymore?"

Tradition.

You've been able to use two buttons for years and years and years now. Seriously!

	28-10-2003 06:13									#17
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As an mac user, the one button mouse looks great, works fine, but a two button mouse with scroll wheel is definatly superior. why have we stuck with it? only jobs knows.

A single button trackpad is fine, since the control key is handy enough not to be a problem, but on a desktop computer with a keyboard, give us a two buttom mouse.

	28-10-2003 06:18									#18
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One button mouses don't "work fine". They are excrutiating to use. Plus I find myself stroking the button, trying to use the scroll wheel

	28-10-2003 06:22									#19
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i think that is the one major weakness of the single button design a lack of a scroll whell, of course i'm addicted to them so any mouse that doesn't have them today i think is a bad design. at least the new one button mice are not round(what were they smoking?)

	28-10-2003 06:24									#20
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Plus the second mouse button is a LOT easier than having to hold the button down. Plus the things just feel funny.

	28-10-2003 06:29									#21
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lol, ever tried the hockey puck mouse? that felt really odd, kinda weird too, like trying to erase the mousepad with the mouse(felt like a really big round eraser).

still i wish apple would make multi-button mice standard on the platform, but i doubt if they ever will.

	28-10-2003 06:32									#22
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Oh god, I hate those (the hockey pucks). They are the spawn of satan.

	28-10-2003 06:34									#23
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Apple's mice can't even come close to competing with the MS Intellimouse Explorer 4.0.

5 buttons, vertical scrollwheel and horiztonal scroll (tilt), stylish, and VERY comfortable.


Even comes in a black leather variation.

	28-10-2003 06:45									#24
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I prefer logitech mice, but that's just my preference. I haven't used a microsoft mouse since well before optical mice came into fashion, even before scroll wheels so i'm not up to how well they are now, but the logitech mice are nice as well.

	28-10-2003 06:50									#25
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god, that's ugly. give me the intellimouse optical any day.

now if the intellimouse optical had tilt, it'd be nice, but not if they made it as ugly as the one above.

	28-10-2003 06:55									#26
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The new wireless intellimouse opticals have tilt (4 colors)



And the other Intellimouse Explorer colors:

(last one with leather)

	28-10-2003 07:25									#27
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the middle explorer isn't so bad.

	28-10-2003 07:35									#28
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question is how does leather feel on your hand day in and day out for a long time? seems to me it whould get old and possibly painful, i'll sitck with the plastic cases.

I agree middle one looks the best, btw.

	28-10-2003 07:46									#29
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Microsoft mouses kick Apple mouse ass.

That one-button thing was designed in the pits of Hell itself.

	28-10-2003 07:46									#30
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This is a PowerMac G5 thread that has turned into mouse thread. How quiet can things get around here?