I don't know Sledge, it certainly sounds to me like you have a pretty deep-seated loathing for Macs. Considering your post is littered with adjectives like horrendous, horrific, preposterous, and weedy, I'm thinking maybe you don't want to buy a Mac. Although I know a lot of people who seem to love hating their computer (all of whom, come to think of it, are PC users.)
"They only have one mouse button"
Oh for the love of Pete... I'm using a scroll-wheel mouse right now on my Powerbook. With any computer often the first thing I do is order a new mouse anyway, so it wasn't any issue that the first thing I did when I got this computer is hit buy.com to order a Pocketmouse.
GFK, that kind of treatment from store managers always pisses me off. Whatever happened to store personnel being nice to customers? All I see these days (at least in big chains) is a markedly antagonistic attitude toward people in the store. And people wonder why I only shop online: let's see, it's fast to browse, the stuff is cheaper, there's wider selection, it's easier to get reliable information about the product, the stuff is delivered straight to my front door, and I don't have to deal with hostile 'sales' people. The only disadvantage is having to wait for my stuff to arrive, and even that is usually only a couple days for delivery. I guess it's a big hassle to return anything, but with half the stuff I buy retail stores don't accept returns anyway, and for the other half of stuff I order from the websites of retail stores so that I can do my returns at the store.
"They only have one mouse button"
Oh for the love of Pete... I'm using a scroll-wheel mouse right now on my Powerbook. With any computer often the first thing I do is order a new mouse anyway, so it wasn't any issue that the first thing I did when I got this computer is hit buy.com to order a Pocketmouse.
GFK, that kind of treatment from store managers always pisses me off. Whatever happened to store personnel being nice to customers? All I see these days (at least in big chains) is a markedly antagonistic attitude toward people in the store. And people wonder why I only shop online: let's see, it's fast to browse, the stuff is cheaper, there's wider selection, it's easier to get reliable information about the product, the stuff is delivered straight to my front door, and I don't have to deal with hostile 'sales' people. The only disadvantage is having to wait for my stuff to arrive, and even that is usually only a couple days for delivery. I guess it's a big hassle to return anything, but with half the stuff I buy retail stores don't accept returns anyway, and for the other half of stuff I order from the websites of retail stores so that I can do my returns at the store.