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[XC] Oj101;17052992 said:
The point is that, unlike with any Wintel laptop, you don't need to use a mouse with the Macbook touchpad, not that you should go out of your way to use the touchpad instead of a mouse.
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In fact an ordinary mouse is a crippled device compared to Apple's trackpads.

Cassady said:
Trackpads might lose some accuracy i.t.o. small area work (mostly Excel)
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Even there it depends on finger sensitivity. I can easily work quickly and accurately on an Apple trackpad.
 
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Cassady said:
Trackpads might lose some accuracy i.t.o. small area work (mostly Excel), but in almost all other regards, the trackpad is far more versatile. On OSX, it's in a different league due to its integration. Add in BTT, and the manipulation of apps and the OS opens up far more possibilities that would ever be possible in Windows.
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I do so much editing using my trackpad I doubt I could use anything else. Well, maybe a wacom but that might be overkill.

I won a Logitech MX performance mouse last year and it's still sitting in the box. :eek:
 
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balrog said:
Option 3: Built myself a monster PC with Skylake i5-6500, 8GB DDR4 2666 RAM, 256gb SSD, 1 TB HDD, case, psu etc. (keyboard and monitor excluded. Will also get a nice GPU later, maybe when the new tech drops), for R7k LESS than the entry level iMac. This thing FLIES... Yes, I had to manage Windows again, but Win 10 pretty great so far.
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How much did your insurance pay out if you don't mind me asking?

Anyway good choice ;)
 
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Gone awfully quite on this thread? Was hoping for some responses to what was popped up a page ago... :whistling:
 
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PostmanPot said:
Teamwork!
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Lol! I'm not stirring - but am genuinely interested to hear from some PC 'power-users' (and I use that term sincerely)... When I crossed over to OSX with my MBP, it was easily the most expensive laptop I had bought, so was determined to get the most out of it - so really threw myself into understanding what it can do. I've moved away from Windows rapidly now, to the point where it really irks me to have to use it.

BUT - I'm the first to admit, I had become 'straight-jacketed' by my own perceptions, built over many years, of what was possible in Windows... Pretty sure that were things to be reversed, and an OSX user jumped all-in to the Windows world, that the former would be able to show the latter some new tricks, simply due to them not having any preconceived ideas of what is possible...

As a result,been finding myself curious about what serious PC-users manage to put together in terms of workflows, that might be similar/better to what is possible on the Mac...
 
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Cassady said:
Lol! I'm not stirring - but am genuinely interested to hear from some PC 'power-users' (and I use that term sincerely)... When I crossed over to OSX with my MBP, it was easily the most expensive laptop I had bought, so was determined to get the most out of it - so really threw myself into understanding what it can do.
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I didn't do that, I just ended up preferring OSX. My Macbook Pro was actually cheaper than my previous Windows laptop. I continue to use Windows regularly, on various systems, and I still prefer OSX. I've never managed to make Windows feel anything other than generally klunky compared to OSX.
 
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