There never has been, nor ever will be, any product Apple sells called "MacTel", so the odds of this machine gaining a right mouse button are non existent.
I think that a trackpad should really be only one button, and if you really need to have two buttons, just get a two-button mouse. They're pretty cheap these days ($20-30). I prefer them when gaming, but as for web-surfing, iChat, email, and iTunes, one mouse button is enough.
Personally, a two button track pad would really annoy me. I routinely switch which hand I'm using on the track pad, and I don't want more than one button!
Aesthetically, I think the one button looks way better. As well, Apple never put one of those scroll bar things on the right of their trackpad, but instead did the two finger scrolling. I think what Apple should do is implement the two-finger on tackpad and click for what a right button click would do.
Apple could put a touch sensor in the track-pad like in the Mighty Mouse. Then if you clicked on the left side you would get a left click and if you click on the right side you get a right click. Or, it could be set up so that clicking with one finger is a left-click and clicking with two fingers is a right click.
Doing something like this would be much better than two separate buttons.
Apple could put a touch sensor in the track-pad like in the Mighty Mouse. Then if you clicked on the left side you would get a left click and if you click on the right side you get a right click. Or, it could be set up so that clicking with one finger is a left-click and clicking with two fingers is a right click.
Doing something like this would be much better than two separate buttons.
I think that a trackpad should really be only one button, and if you really need to have two buttons, just get a two-button mouse. They're pretty cheap these days ($20-30). I prefer them when gaming, but as for web-surfing, iChat, email, and iTunes, one mouse button is enough.
I use sidetrack on my powerbook... I use the bottom right corner as a tap for right click... works out fine. It no longer bothers me they don't have a right click for these machines. I use it constantly... and yes I was born and bread mac
Totally Mighty Mouse style, if at all. I would prefer it that way.
But, lots of 3D apps, and more importantly in Call of Duty which lets you 'cook' nades :P, can sense two-clicking (i.e., left+right click) The Mighty Mouse is inherently designed not to do so.
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Doing something like this would be much better than two separate buttons.
-DG
Someone remember its name?
Originally posted by dansgil
Apple could put a touch sensor in the track-pad like in the Mighty Mouse. Then if you clicked on the left side you would get a left click and if you click on the right side you get a right click. Or, it could be set up so that clicking with one finger is a left-click and clicking with two fingers is a right click.
Doing something like this would be much better than two separate buttons.
-DG
Yeah, they could put the sensors in the button.
Originally posted by blackbird_1.0
Yeah, they could put the sensors in the button.
Sorry, I meant button, not track-pad.
Originally posted by dansgil
Sorry, I meant button, not track-pad.
Cool.
Originally posted by speed_the_collapse
I think that a trackpad should really be only one button, and if you really need to have two buttons, just get a two-button mouse. They're pretty cheap these days ($20-30). I prefer them when gaming, but as for web-surfing, iChat, email, and iTunes, one mouse button is enough.
I use sidetrack on my powerbook... I use the bottom right corner as a tap for right click... works out fine. It no longer bothers me they don't have a right click for these machines. I use it constantly... and yes I was born and bread mac
But, lots of 3D apps, and more importantly in Call of Duty which lets you 'cook' nades :P, can sense two-clicking (i.e., left+right click) The Mighty Mouse is inherently designed not to do so.
Originally posted by Anders
MacTel? It sounds like that two way TeleText thingy France Telecom made in the last century.
Someone remember its name?
MiniTel, wasn't it?