On 17/09/2004, at 3:51 PM, yuri wrote:
If you wanted a machine best matched for the 5yo, it would have a touchscreen and neither keyboard nor mouse.
... and be made of stainless steel, and both water proof and hammer proof.
and non-toxic, and brightly coloured, and ... (someone stop me before I start to just get silly)
This debate is academic because there are many more subtleties to learn between Mac and PC, than just mouse buttons.
There are clicks, double clicks, a click and a drag, Option key click and drag, a click and hold down in place. Apple even had one and a half clicks in OS 9.x!
PC keyboards have the Command Key at the far left (Command C, V, P etc.) Macs have the Command key to the immediate left of the spacebar (Command C, V, P doing the same tasks as on a PC),
Where's the backward delete key on a Mac? (there isn't one) and so on...
It is said that power users navigate and issue commands via keystrokes. Then there are those folks who swear by a pen and tablet. I thought we were all meant to be passing instructions to our computers in everyday speech by now (2004) anyway.
Although I am not really a linux user, I feel a great affinity with Linux as a Mac OSX (Unix) user and I find this list more intelligent than most.
I like the bicycle-tricycle analogy best, less is more!
I have gone way OT, sorry. Bart Hanson.
