Lmao, this topic is still going? Think I saw this 2 or 3 years ago for the first time. I knew it would be amusing to follow, but didn’t think it would still keep people going.

Let’s face it, people that can’t comprehend a two button mouse should get rid of their keyboard as well (you know, that flat thing with even more than 2 buttons). I have used Mac for almost 6 years but the whole Mac product went from great to pretty bad. These days I do know people that have a Mac, but none of them use a one button mouse. One of them even bought a PC recently with Windows7 because it was the only way he could actually use his new multifunctional printer.

Apple is leaning heavily on loyalty and religious-like communities that will throw a “buy a Mac” at every problem a Windows user might run into. The same kind that will buy Ipods or Iphones (the only products that actually kept Apple running) just because it is Apple and a hype. And Apple is happy about having these people,... but will only keep them as long as they don’t run into “I-think”. Most people can do maths (probably because Apple wasn’t in charge of building calculators; those would have had one button), and they figure that it’s cheaper to get a Windows machine.

I loved my Mac(s),.. but sometimes you need to evolve, sometimes you can actually be more productive with that extra button.

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Just a bunch of mac fanboys justifying something dumb about macs. Windows can be controlled without a mouse at all, but I wouldn’t want to do it. I’m too busy writing my book and checking prices of my beanie-baby collection to look down from my screen.

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I am a mac user, but how do I play Portal-game on a mac with one-buttoned mouse???

IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!

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THAT’S MY MOUSE!!!!! COOL!!! “but it’s black

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I cant believe this article was written in 2005 and Im still getting response notifications 5 years later!
lets just use touch screens and end this now!

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haha a man talkin sense i don’t mind using the apple but i hate the mouse. i hate it’s shape i hate its useless mousewheel (ball) that seizes up every 6 weeks and the oversentisive buttons on the side that go off when ya squeeze the the damn thing to get ahold of it! but most of all i hate the unibutton. the misconception is true whilst it may have LMB and RMB you cannot press both buttons for a third feature. i like having RMB and LMB together mapping another feature.

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so apple ships one button mice because the people that use their computers are stupid

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I like the apple for this reason new. And they look good.

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u mad?

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ok, I hate the 1 button mouse and here is why.  The only Mac I ever use is a mini-mac connected to a tv (at a friend’s house, NOT my computer, so don’t say “get a new mouse”) and every time I try to do anything I have to go up to the top of the screen and find “copy” and “paste” on that stupid menu bar that’s not in the browser, I don’t get that either.

My point being that control-click, which I didn’t even know was how you right click a Mac, because I don’t use them, is not easier than a two button mouse, because I don’t want to use the keyboard AT ALL, if I’m using netflix or an internet browser on the TV, I just want the mouse to copy and paste things without having to hold the stupid keyboard on my lap to do things a two button mouse could do without a keyboard.

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Anyone who is confused by the use of a two button mouse should not be on ANY computer, period.

Furthermore, the idea that the average person doesn’t use the right mouse button is ridiculous.  It is quite common, especially in this era of social networking, to right click a picture and “save picture as”.  Even my 60 year old mother knows what a right click is.

Just another dumb justification by mac lovers on why they are so willing to accept having their experience limited by a company that forces their entire customer base to use standards dictated by the most ignorant of users.

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This is pretty much a ######## explanation of why Apple/Mac is so far behind PC’s on the mouse.  I suspect the real reason Apple doesn’t fully adopt the right mouse button is that they don’t want to appear to be copying arch-villian Microsoft on anything, especially on the development of something that Apple initially invented, i.e. the mouse. 

I switch regularly between Macs and PC’s, and I love Macs, but the mouse issue needs to be resolved, and articles like this, that are pure bull, do nothing to improve the situation.

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As a video gamer, one button mice make me wretch.  Right clicking is so useful in games.  Context menus, de-selection, a whole new realm of key-bindings.

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This article is still valid today, although many people still don’t get it. I got into an argument why Apple disabled the right mouse-button by default on new Mac’s, and this article sums up all my arguments.

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Wow, I knew Apple users were anal, but…

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All of you guys are hurting my head.

APPLE DOESN’T EVEN SHIP OUT SINGLE BUTTON MICE ANYMORE!

On the Apple mice, and trackpads, you can click with two fingers to right click, and then there are more functions mapped for 3 and 4 fingers. You can scroll using simply two fingers and moving them up or down. There’s no such thing as a single button mouse unless you have an old mac.

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I hear you saying that Apple considers MAC users to be less than bright enough to figure out a two-button mouse.  Bear in mind, Mac people, I didn’t say that, but the MAC support guy did.

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I have a MAC and yet I did not know some of this about the right click, but I just use the keyboard shortcuts alot more now, I am a MAC lover for life

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My PC broke a short while ago and now I’m forced to use a Mac I have borrowed from my family. I must admit I’m totally lost without my two button mouse. A case in point,  the Mac already has a RTS game called Rome: Total War installed on it. Trying to play it is impossible, as the game requires you to select a unit and then right click it to its destination. How is that possible with only one mouse button?  To be fair I’ve only set up the Mac about an hour ago and I’m still trying to work things out, which is hard considering I don’t have a manual; but when a game’s tutorial instructs you to left and right click with a mouse that only has one button, I’m left perplexed.

Personally I don’t find the one button mouse more user friendly. If anything it’s a hinderance.

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On the flip side I have people constantly calling me and asking me how to do something without the right button. So this thinking might be good for baby boomers and 5 year olds but the majority of computer users know what a right click is. In fact most of them don’t know how to function without it so I think this is a very outdated theory.

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