Comments on: MacBook hacked to add “right-click” in Windows

By: coolfactor

coolfactor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:28:09 +0000

The whole of a “right-click menu” was flawed from the start. It’s always been a “contextual” menu on the Mac. Call it what you will… right-click, control-click, two-finger click…. the fact that it brings up a contextual menu doesn’t change (and shouldn’t). I’m glad Apple doesn’t give into the right-click crown. It seriously adds to the complexity of the user interface. How many people have to ask me when I say to click on something… “is that a left click or a right click?”… grrr… learn the difference between a “normal” and a “contextual” click and then it doesn’t matter how you activate them.

By: mo Moosa

mo Moosa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:35:20 +0000

Also, AJ, how hard can it be to add an extra button? Even if its not physically another button, it’d still be nice. This is coming from the company thats designed a good touch screen phone, I’m sure they’re capable of adding another button to the laptop.

By: mo Moosa

mo Moosa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:39:58 +0000

AJ,

the actual scroll ball is a button, too.

By: earl

earl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:17:33 +0000

unibody macbooks have right click. you can set up the lower right side of the track pad to register as a right click. however, jboy21, sweet mod! i like taking things apart too.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:39:46 +0000

@mo Mussa,

4 buttons? there are two one the sides that work in sync and a left and right on the top…instead of cluttering the space with 2 different buttons and programming that in..it’s easier to just click with 2 fingers on a laptop

By: mo Moosa

mo Moosa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:07:32 +0000

@ Zorin,

This guy just modified a macbook successfully to give it an extra button, how can he not know what he is doing? The point is, he wanted a two button trackpad, so why not? Why does Apple have to stick with one button trackpads? No matter how easy the alternatives may be, there is no reason to avoid such a basic feature, especially seeing as the mac desktop lines have a four button mouse included.

By: Scott Rovani

Scott Rovani — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:17:49 +0000

Some ppl like to tear stuff apart and mess around…looks like fun, I would never do it cause the only thing I use this mac for is for mac….I dont want the buttstink of windows near this machine..

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:58:30 +0000

Cant say the pcb on the lap is a very good solution

By: thisisjohnny

thisisjohnny — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:43:35 +0000

talk about going to new york by way of china!

seriously, man. it ain’t that difficult: @zorin “if you install the Boot Camp driver disks, you could do right click by putting a second finger down on the trackpad and clicking, just like under Mac OS X.”

people never educate themselves anymore.

By: Zorin

Zorin — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:15:41 +0000

Talk about wasting a whole lot of time for nothing; if you install the Boot Camp driver disks, you could do right click by putting a second finger down on the trackpad and clicking, just like under Mac OS X.

It’s a clever hack, technically, but not really necessary if you even have a tiny hint of knowledge about what you’re doing.