Have you ever wondered why mac's don't include...

[purplehippo]

most mac users use a small control panel that puts the activity lights on the desktop

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder
And here I was, expecting a mac bashing thread. Oh well. And no, I haven't wondered why they don't include hard drive led's. I figure they got tossed when the apple design department said "they're ghey". What I do wonder is why macs don't include a normal mouse. Who the heck likes a single mouse button? Especially one smaller than a hockey puck?

AFAIK the "puck" has been discontinued long ago. There are plenty aftermarket (MS, Logitech) mise that will work with Mac. Consider this, how many people that buy OEM PC's end up replacing supplied keyboards/mouse? My guess is quite a few.

 

[MazerRackham]

Originally posted by: jonmullen

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: AnyMal
What I really want to know is why Mac laptops don't have PCMCIA slots?

The powerbooks do have a PCMCIA slot.

Though, I really don't know what you'd put in it. I've never seen anyone, on a mac or PC, use a PCMCIA slot for anything but variuos network cards and modems, and the macs have built in ethernet and 56k, and they take a wireless card internally, and the new ones even have built-in bluetooth.

I was under the impression that it was not really a PCMCIA slot, thus the reason you had to use Airport cards and could not use say a random Wireless nic, but than again we were talking about older mac's before they started building the wireless cards in.

Okay, I own a PowerBook G4 laptop, and let me assure you it has a PCMCIA slot. I am looking right at it, right now.

Airport 802.11b cards go in an internal slot on this computer.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: MazerRackham

Originally posted by: jonmullen

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: AnyMal
What I really want to know is why Mac laptops don't have PCMCIA slots?

The powerbooks do have a PCMCIA slot.

Though, I really don't know what you'd put in it. I've never seen anyone, on a mac or PC, use a PCMCIA slot for anything but variuos network cards and modems, and the macs have built in ethernet and 56k, and they take a wireless card internally, and the new ones even have built-in bluetooth.

I was under the impression that it was not really a PCMCIA slot, thus the reason you had to use Airport cards and could not use say a random Wireless nic, but than again we were talking about older mac's before they started building the wireless cards in.

Okay, I own a PowerBook G4 laptop, and let me assure you it has a PCMCIA slot. I am looking right at it, right now.

Airport 802.11b cards go in an internal slot on this computer.

Perhaps I should've clarified. I was speaking of iBook.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Lucky

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: AnyMal
What I really want to know is why Mac laptops don't have PCMCIA slots?

The powerbooks do have a PCMCIA slot.

Though, I really don't know what you'd put in it. I've never seen anyone, on a mac or PC, use a PCMCIA slot for anything but variuos network cards and modems, and the macs have built in ethernet and 56k, and they take a wireless card internally, and the new ones even have built-in bluetooth.

Digital media adaptors.

That's what Firewire is for, silly.

 

[Paulson]

what happens If you have 2 cd-rom drives and hit eject, does it eject them both? or just one?

 

[poopaskoopa]

It's not like the HD is going to spin any faster if you look at the LED...

 

[kami333]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: Lucky

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: AnyMal
What I really want to know is why Mac laptops don't have PCMCIA slots?

The powerbooks do have a PCMCIA slot.

Though, I really don't know what you'd put in it. I've never seen anyone, on a mac or PC, use a PCMCIA slot for anything but variuos network cards and modems, and the macs have built in ethernet and 56k, and they take a wireless card internally, and the new ones even have built-in bluetooth.

Digital media adaptors.

That's what Firewire is for, silly.

And it's faster too.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: Paulson
what happens If you have 2 cd-rom drives and hit eject, does it eject them both? or just one?

Both at the same time.

 

[silent tone]

The single button mouse is another technique to extract more money from customers. Why bundle something useful, if you can sell them another mouse for $50.

Just looked at the apple store, Wow I thought $50 was expensive for my intellimouse explorer 2 years ago. Their 1 button optical is $60, and theres not even a scroll wheel.

 

[Ionizer86]

Err, regarding noise, I have two Panaflo L1A's on my XP 1600+ and then a trashy hard drive that makes like no sound. You can make your PC as quiet as you want by not putting in *cough* 5x Delta Screamers

Curious side note, PC laptops have like room for two thin PCMCIA cards (I forgot the naming as to which is type 1, 2, 3 etc). How many do the mac laptops have?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: istallion
The single button mouse is another technique to extract more money from customers. Why bundle something useful, if you can sell them another mouse for $50.

And that would make sense, if Apple made other mice. They sell 3rd party products yes, but most the non-expensive stuff(mice, keyboards, etc) they aren't going to be making money off of, since they aren't the manufacturer.

PS Ionizer86, Mac laptops have only shipped with 1 slot at the most since the Lombard G3 Powerbook. Currently, the TiBooks come with 1, and iBooks with none

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: istallion
The single button mouse is another technique to extract more money from customers. Why bundle something useful, if you can sell them another mouse for $50.

Just looked at the apple store, Wow I thought $50 was expensive for my intellimouse explorer 2 years ago. Their 1 button optical is $60, and theres not even a scroll wheel.

Uhm, OK. How does Apple make any more money if you buy another mouse, say by Microsoft or Logitech?