Dear Apple: Two Mouse Buttons
By Bob Plankers on Apr 5, 2006 in Dear Vendor
Dear Apple,
Your Boot Camp product looks cool. I applaud you for providing supportable solutions to your customers, even if you are encouraging them to use Mac OS X.
However, I still won’t buy a MacBook Pro. How can I run Windows without a second mouse button? I am not going to shift-click, or ctrl-click, for everything I need, and I use my right mouse button a lot. This is also a complaint I have in Mac OS X, too, and with your desktop models you offer a two-button mouse. I have one on my G5. Using a USB mouse on a laptop isn’t practical in many cases, though.
Could you offer a built-in two-button mouse option on your MacBooks?
Thank you.
3 Comment(s)
By rajeev karamchedu on Apr 5, 2006 | Reply
I just finished installing XP on my macbookpro. I have a apple mighty mouse, which is actually a 5 button mouse.
In XP, it works like a 3 button mouse - like a champ. The “squeeze” feature is not available in XP, cause it probably does not have the drivers for it yet. Left-Click, Right-Click, Vertical Scroll, Middle button click - all there.
http://kreaper.blogsome.com/2006/04/05/windows-on-intel-mac/
By lonesysadmin on Apr 5, 2006 | Reply
Very cool! I still wish you could do left & right clicks on the built-in mouse. The Mighty Mouse isn’t convenient on an airplane. :-)
I also see you mentioning no iSight. That would be ultra-cool.
By rajeev karamchedu on Apr 5, 2006 | Reply
I just posted a screenshot of it as well. Looks er.. funky. Take a perfectly good laptop and load Windows on it. Sounds cruel.
Anyway w/regards to mouse. I also used a standard USB mouse - which works too.
For an airplane (and all other “tight” places) - what you really need is this
http://www.macally.com/gif/products/usb/optigo/optigo_000.gif