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Right Click without using the "contextual menus" ......

Not that old chestnut...

Macs have done right click for ages - on the iMac/Mac Pro the standard Apple mouse will detect a right click, even though it doesn't look like there's a separate button. You can also use pretty much any USB mouse. I use a Microsoft one.

On the laptops you can configure the trackpad to right click by tapping the pad with 2 fingers and also scroll using 2 fingers. It is very intuitive, makes Windows laptops clunky in comparison.

The new Macbook Pros and the Air have multi gesture trackpads, you can scroll, zoom, rotate and swipe - great for photo editing.

I have always been a bit spooked by Apple staff. They remind me a little of the Moonies, religious zealots, with glazed, fixed stares. But I'm going to give them another go!

Oh I'm just having a dig at those that think Mac is king.

It's all down to the application that you want to use it for. A bit like Hassleblad, show me the end result difference between that and an Arax.

I used to think the same way about Apple. I switched to a Mac at the start of this year and after about half an hour I was wondering what took me so long.

I agree to some extent about it being a tool, but the output is superior.

For us photographers, Aperture can do things that no one else comes close to in a single product.

And who else would offer weekly lessons for just ?79 a year? OK you have to be near a store, but they will cover everything from getting started through to Final Cut Studio and the other Professional applications.

Andy

Well Im off to the High Church of Apple in Regent St tomorrow, to be re-programmed, by the Apple nut-balls. Yes I too am nearly convinced. I still have a problem with buying from a company whose boss does the top button up on his shirt! !laugh!

lol good luck jim, i hope you find it suits you

keni

Get down to your local 'cash converters' Jim, and stump up for a Atari 1040 with 1meg ram........problem sorted !grin!

I have been to the Apple Store and I am cleansed! I was re-programmed by at least 5 "Friendly and helpful" young folk who all dropped to their knees and gave Thanks when I decided to buy.

I am now the proud owner of an 24" I Mac and I Thank The Lord. I am now instructed to smash my PC's and hit them with the soles of my slippers!

Welcome, Brother.