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#1 2006-03-22 6:44 pm
Macbook Pro - Is Apple Nuts?
Hello.
I just don't understand Apple. The new Macbook Pro portable. Why are people buying them?
One Button Mouse - eeewwww come on Apple this is the 21st Century.
Funky expansion slot?!?!?! Why Apple why? 
Anyone seen any cards for this new kind of expansion slot?
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#2 2006-03-22 7:00 pm
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I think it needs to look better. Aluminum is so fugly. But is this the right forum for this post?
#3 2006-03-22 7:15 pm
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Take a look at other Core Duo machines. They too have the "funky" ExpressCard slot. It's much faster than PCMCIA. The part that sucks about the MPB is that Apple didn't make enough room for a 54mm slot, so some cards will be unusable for MBP owners.
Cards are trickling in.
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#4 2006-03-22 8:07 pm
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Sure! I asked a hardware question in the right place. But I also complained? Did I miss the complaint department? Or the one on hardware complaints?!?!?! 
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#5 2006-03-22 8:39 pm
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it's a portable complaint 
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#6 2006-03-23 12:33 am
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This thread makes baby jesus cry.
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#7 2006-03-23 2:26 am
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#8 2006-03-23 5:50 am
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mopcodes wrote:
Funky expansion slot?!?!?! Why Apple why?
Switching to a new standard is always difficult. Switch too early and there'll be no peripherals available at debut, switch too late, and there'll be no peripherals available in the (near) future. It's what they call a trade-off.
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#9 2006-03-23 6:53 am
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#10 2006-03-23 8:34 am
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Alien wrote:
mopcodes wrote:
Funky expansion slot?!?!?! Why Apple why?
Switching to a new standard is always difficult. Switch too early and there'll be no peripherals available at debut, switch too late, and there'll be no peripherals available in the (near) future. It's what they call a trade-off.
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Kinda like USB in August, 1998?
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#12 2006-03-23 7:23 pm
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SIIG lists a few -- they'll get here. http://www.siig.com/productList.asp?pid … ;catid=128
Hell, I'm still waiting for my PCIe SATA card for my 4-month old Quad...
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#13 2006-03-23 9:01 pm
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Alien wrote:
May 6, IIRC.
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I think you're right. I was counting shipping date (August 15, 1998) vs. announced date, which I think was May.
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#14 2006-03-25 11:54 am
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mopcodes wrote:
One Button Mouse - eeewwww come on Apple this is the 21st Century.
Did I miss something?
'Books have mice?
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#15 2006-03-25 12:11 pm
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I think it would be cool if Apple applied the technology from the Mighty Mouse to the 'books' trackpad button. Click the left side or right side of the button to register a left or right click. Users can enable or disable it from System Prefs. Apple keeps a clean look and users who want a right-click can have one.
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#17 2006-03-25 1:52 pm
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Sounds like a patent they just filed
(No joke - seriously)
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#18 2006-04-13 1:37 am
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I agree the 1 button track pad is LAME !! they make the mighty mouse and the OS supports a 2 button mouse. So why on earth did they not put a two button track pad on it? If the do the same think with the replacement to the iBook (most likley they wil) I will be forced to carry a laptop mouse with it.
Oh well at least OSX is still useable with a one button mouse
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#19 2006-04-13 3:10 am
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jayster wrote:
Oh well at least OSX is still useable with a one button mouse
That's your answer right there. Believe it or not, many people have trouble with multi-button mice. Apple's adherence to the single-button mouse as the standard configuration ensures that OS X and its applications will always be usable with a single-button device.
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