The one-button-that-you-can-click-on-both-sides design is very pretty, but not as responsive as two REAL buttons would be

I must chime in with my concurrence that if you can't get used to it, any usb mouse will do.

Also, have you tweaked it at all, in the Keyboard and Mouse control panel [link] It can't do anything about the tactile difference, but it might help.

It took a while for me to get used to electric keyboards after growing up with a manual typewriter, too. hee.

(Although one would have to equate the touch mouse with a membrane keyboard, which I still haven't quite gotten used to.)

Liese, you can now tell about how advanced Biscuit's butt is!

Ha! It's really a tiny button. And it's a switch, not actually a button. It's possible he didn't do it by sitting, but did it surreptitiously with his paws so that I couldn't watch tv and paid more attention to him.

It backfired, though, because it got the tv stuck on Discovery during Mythbusters and then Most Dangerous Catch. Which was very addictive.

That Quicksilver looks cool. I'll have to give it a look.

My hesitation about going all Mac...what do I like better on the PC?

WS_FTP Pro. That duck program irritates me. I like the interface of WS_FTP Pro so much better.

UltraEdit 32. Have not found my one true Mac text editor. I'm playing with Zend Studio eval, and it's overkill in the other direction. What I mainly need is FTP Open/Save, syntax highlighting, regular expression search and replace...well, and everything else.

Paintshop Pro. I don't wanna go Gimp. PSP was a great price point ($80) for the complexity, and it's made me very happy. There isn't much that Photoshop does that PSP doesn't that I'd be willing to pay for.

SQLYog. Connects me to my remote databases and lets me manage them and run queries against them.

Typograf. I know the Mac must have a kick assed font manager. I just haven't found it yet.

Office. Need it. Don't wanna buy it.

WebLogExpert. Munches the stats from my websites and makes them pretty for me.

TiVo Desktop/To Go. I don't think that needs explaining.

Picasa. I'm quite addicted to it now. Helps me quickly sort through and manipulate images for my web sites. Sorting's the key thing. I have more than a thousand submissions sitting around waiting to be checked.

So I'm gonna be bicoastal for a while.

I don't watch TV/DVD on my desktop anymore. I haven't watched any Fox shows online because their app won't work on the Mac.

I don't torrent to the PC anyore. Azureus wouldn't work on it.

I don't IM/Skype on the PC anymore. Man, I thought I'd found my OTIM with Trillian, but nope.

The Tivo Desktop/Tivo To Go stuff on the Mac is working pretty well now. You have to buy Toast to get it, but I've been running it and liking it so far.

I goddamned bought Toast on the PC. No desktop without pay? Even without burning?

So, aside from the Toast issue, how do Tivo Desktop/Tivo To Go compare between the PC and Mac versions?

I was thinking of buying Toast for my MacBook, but then I realized I could run the Tivo stuff in an XP virtual machine, so I'm not sure buying Toast for the Mac is worth it....

eta: Wait, do you only need Toast if you want to burn DVDs on a Mac?

eta2: OK, You need Toast if you want to encode for any portable device....

The Toast version of Tivo Transfer has a couple of disadvantages. The first is that you have to buy Toast to get it. The second is that, afaIct, you can't set the automatic transfers to convert to iPod ready files upon download. And the third is that the Tivo can't see the saved files the way it can on the PC. I still use the Mac version almost exclusively.

I heard a rumor that there was some form of Open Office that would run on OS X but I haven't seen it or used it and I may have heard wrong.

Tivo Transfer seems to only be available as as option within Toast.

I have found that the Toast converter on the Mac is quite a bit faster and actually takes advantage of multicore CPU's. On my dualcore PC the Tivo converter will max out one CPU and not touch the other one. On my dualcore G5 it will max out both of them. I haven't tried it on my dualcore MacBook yet.

OK, it seems my XP virtual machine does not have an MPEG-2 video decoder (as it has no native DVD movie player software), which would require me to purchase Tivo Desktop Plus. So I might as well just buy Toast (and ND's post adds additional reasons to)....