My CTX AMD K6-300/128 MB RAM/3 GB drive laptop is obviously at the end of its life. I was in the "shopping" process for a laptop for 2 months now, and I considered a number of PC laptops, including the Compaq Presario 1525US. At the end, I decided to get the new 12" Powerbook, came in last week, and I am since then using it as my primary machine. Here is what I think about it.
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Sean, thank you for the tip. Indeed, this utility made it more like it, but it ain't perfect. So, the poblem is that the OSX mouse driver starts to accelerate in the speed that you set on MouseZoom and on the mouse preference panel, *only* after you have reached a certain speed with your finger in the trackpad/mouse. Only after you reach that threshhold on how fast you move your finger in the trackpad, the acceleration you set up will take effect. So, for normal operations and precision and slow movement, the driver itself will have to change, because it moves at the same speed all the time no matter what you change... An additional slider should be added to the pref panel. Speed and acceleration are different things for mice. The BeOS mouse pref panel can control both speed and acceleration, entirely independantly.
Sean, thank you for the tip. Indeed, this utility made it more like it, but it ain't perfect. So, the poblem is that the OSX mouse driver starts to accelerate in the speed that you set on MouseZoom and on the mouse preference panel, *only* after you have reached a certain speed with your finger in the trackpad/mouse. Only after you reach that threshhold on how fast you move your finger in the trackpad, the acceleration you set up will take effect. So, for normal operations and precision and slow movement, the driver itself will have to change, because it moves at the same speed all the time no matter what you change... An additional slider should be added to the pref panel. Speed and acceleration are different things for mice. The BeOS mouse pref panel can control both speed and acceleration, entirely independantly.