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RE: media center?
By Visual on 7/4/2006 6:32:00 AM , Rating: 2
why do you need a mouse for a media pc at all?

there are ofcourse stupid gui programs (including a lot of players) out there that've made operation without a mouse impossible, but the best of media center apps (i've had ati and pinnacle, seen win mce) are infact easier with the keyboard. arrow keys and enter work much better for that kind of interfaces, same for dvd menus and stuff.

a mouse is only needed as a backup, when you happen to need to work with windows stuff easily. you know, use the pc as a pc. but even then, if its for just a small thing, i can do just fine with the keyboard.

if you miss the trackpoint so much, windows has a builtin feature to turn your numpad to a mouse (control panel, accessibility, mouse keys) it wont help this particular excuse for a keyboard though as it has no numpad.

a mouse is pretty much essential for lots of games out there, and you probably are going to play some, even if you call it a HTPC. and a trackpoint will totally not be a good replacement.


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