I was ready to answer that with an emphatic NO! yesterday. It was getting physically painful to use the laptop's trackpad and though that's hardly an OS X issue, being hardware, the solution of using an external pointer was at first almost as bad. The default mouse acceleration curve is messed up so that the pointer either moves at warp speed ( Read more... )

Turn off the annoying bouncy crap:
Go to System Preferences and under "Personal" choose "Dock" and de-select: [_] Animate opening applications. Now instead of the annoying bouncing, the glowing dot beneath an icon will wink slowly - indicating a startup without being obnoxious about it.

How to get a black backgroundMake a 128x128 solid black . ( Read more... )

I tried the Mac laptop today and didn't get very far. I did get Opera installed and started fiddling with it and found that everything that had been a single key action (or one key and a click) was now a two-key (or two-key and click) action. There was a two-key and click that still is two-key and click, but the keys are now awkward, even for a ( Read more... )