What do you do if you are forced to use a Windows machine at work, but you REALLY want to use an...

[MotionMan]

What do you do if you are forced to use a Windows machine at work, but you REALLY want to use an Apple Magic Trackpad?

First you do this:

http://www.labnol.org/software/apple-magic-trackpad-with-windows/14158/


You may have to do this, too:

https://randosity.wordpress.com/201...cation-error-when-pairing-mouse-in-windows-7/


Of course, if your Windows machine does not have built-in Bluetooth, your will need one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009ZIILLI/


You're welcome.

MotionMan (who just had to do this at his new job)

 

[Kaido]

Nice! Yay for hacks!

On a tangent, Logitech makes a very nice large wireless touchpad for $67:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Rechargeable-Touchpad-Multi-Touch-Navigation/dp/B0093H4WT6/

Wacom also has an jumbo touchpad: (well, it's a drawing tablet that doubles as a touchpad!)

https://www.amazon.com/Wacom-CTL490DW-Digital-Drawing-Graphics/dp/B010LHRFM2/

Just as a couple more options.

 

[JAG87]

My answer to your question is: I cry a little inside

 

[TheStu]

Nice! Yay for hacks!

On a tangent, Logitech makes a very nice large wireless touchpad for $67:

https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Rechargeable-Touchpad-Multi-Touch-Navigation/dp/B0093H4WT6/

Wacom also has an jumbo touchpad: (well, it's a drawing tablet that doubles as a touchpad!)

https://www.amazon.com/Wacom-CTL490DW-Digital-Drawing-Graphics/dp/B010LHRFM2/

Just as a couple more options.

Seconding the Logitech T650. It also pairs well, aesthetically, with the K810. The T650 is 99% of the way there to an Apple trackpad, it's great.

 

[nerp]

I've tried using the magic trackpad for daily use but ended up using a mouse. It's just not as fast or accurate and gestures just don't need to be used on my end often enough to warrant the less efficient pointing and clicking capability. There's just no way anyone can be as fast on a trackpad when you're opening multiple tabs, copy/pasting and dragging stuff around like crazy.

 

[KeithP]

It's hard to imagine anyone really wanting to use the Magic TrackPad.

-KeithP

 

[Zaap]

Main use of my Tragic MacPad at work: the ol' three-finger swipe between desktops.

Other than that... rarely touch it.

 

[master_shake_]

damn zaap looks like you got a cool job.

are you an animator for american dad?

 

[Zaap]

Editor, yes.

 

[Paperlantern]

Honestly I'm not forced to use anything anywhere, so I consider myself lucky. At home I have an HP z420 workstation with 12GB of RAM, and a 3.0GHz Xeon processor. Win 10 sits on a RAID 0 of two Samsung 64GB drives and absolutely flies. I am a gamer. So I dig Windows 10, its a solid OS, and the rig runs almost anything with a R9 280X 3GB card in it. Doom is beautiful.

At work I run a dual 27" iMac set up. It originally was a single iMac from 2010, with a secondary monitor attached, but when they upgraded me last year after using a 5 year old iMac for too long, I got a new iMac with a 4.0GHz i7, 32GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. It's a beast. I still use the old one both as a secondary monitor for the primary iMac, and i also screen share into it to run tasks on it as well. Its a great setup. I also have a windows box that i remote desktop into, and a Linux Mint box that I use for various tasks.

To me all OSs have their place, and their strengths, it's knowing what those strengths are and how to leverage them when needed that has helped me I think.

So for me, no groans at all when I'm "forced" to use something other than a mac. Because I'm not really being forced at all, likely it is something I've chosen for that task and works well in that setting. I am comfortable with all OSs.

 

[Red Storm]

IMHO trackpads are MUCH better on Mac OS because of the gestures, especially switching desktops. For the life of me I don't understand why these weren't in Windows 10.

 

[Paperlantern]

IMHO trackpads are MUCH better on Mac OS because of the gestures, especially switching desktops. For the life of me I don't understand why these weren't in Windows 10.

Multiple Desktop are in Windows 10. Or you mean gestures TO switch desktops. Yeah keyboard commands to do it are terrible. I wind up binding keys on my mouse to do it.

 

[RichieZ]

for the last 8 years i've been issued some version of a macbook pro or air at work.

before that I worked at a consulting firm that give me an awful hp laptop, I just used my personal macbook at work, and used parallels to access anything that only worked in windows/IE. nobody cared