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Fun story: I was once helping a friend defrag her Mac. It was an extremely convoluted process and was playfully dramatic about finally getting the process initiatied. She asked why it was so complicated for me if I "did it all the time", and I said that since defragging is basically a method of controlling the insides of your own computer (which is a huge no-no in the Apple ecosystem), it's easy to do on a PC but extremely difficult on a Mac. She had a hard time believing anything was easier to do on a PC than a Mac.

Her face when I started the defrag process on my own computer in three steps and under a minute...years later and the memory still makes me laugh!

ayrt

That sounds about like when I helped my friend with her virus. The first thing I suggested was to do a system restore to before she noticed the problem. (Generally my first step if I notice something strange with my computer, and super easy to do on a PC.) Turns out Macs don't have that feature. There are a few third party programs that can do something similar, if you purchased and installed them before you had a problem, but that's useless if you're trying to roll back a computer after it gets infected.

Apple is great at marketing to people who aren't completely computer illiterate but don't have a lot of practical experience with computers. They don't realize how much more expensive Macs really are. (I have a top of the line gaming laptop that costs $1,200 dollars less than the best MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Pro has worse specs.)

Wait, they don't have system restore? D:

I very recently discovered that Macs (or at least Mac laptops) don't even have a right-click on their mouses/mousepads! Like, how do you even use the damn computer without it, I use my right-click so much...

They do. I use it all the time, too.

Oh, thank god, I thought my memory was going insane, for a while. One of my housemates has a Mac, and it has no right click (she didn't even know how to right-click/how to use it), and at a later study group the other Mac user confirmed that Macs generally don't have right-clicks. I thought my memory was fucked or I am just getting old because I remember using Macs in high school and they always had right-clicks.

You are corrrrect! They don't have defined buttons like on all the PCs I've seen, but they are incorporated into the touchpad -- probably some kind of rocker thingy underneath, or something (that's a technical term). You can even switch them around like on a regular mouse, much to my relief.

I don't suppose you know why some of them don't have a right-click function? I tried with both my housemate's and classmate's Macs, and they just don't work, no matter how far to the right you click the mousepad. My housemate didn't really know how to use the right-click function, and was genuinely surprised when I used Command+click despite having had her laptop for a while.

Haven't the foggiest - maybe it's a preferences setting. My comp's at home right now, so i can't monkey. :P I do know that mine can be really finicky; if i go too far to the right it ignores me.

Come to think, i had to go in and turn the right click function on. (My ex hated it, so never used it, so couldn't help despite her apple junky-ness.) Yu have to actually depress the touchpad so it clicks, vs just the tap click.

Edited 2015-01-08 19:28 (UTC)

That would explain a lot, except for why. Why would Apple have it turned off as a default? And why no tap-to-click? That's one of the things that bugs me the most about trying to use Apple laptops. -_-

There is a tap option for secondary/right click! Cool! That's also where you switch sides, like I did (so my primary is right, secondary is left. injuries to strange things to a body...).

Preferences->Trackpad->Secondary click, select option (left, right, or two-finger tap)

At least on mine, though it is admittedly almost... god, 4yr old, now. Damn, this thing is so much better than my last PC. I never thought I'd like Mac better. This just got a little surreal. o.O

I almost never use the click, only the tap-to-click. It saves my wrists a lot of agony.

Edited 2015-01-09 05:35 (UTC)

Macs do have a right click function.

And you can do a system restore with a mac. It just requires you to have your time machine turned on.

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