The usual navigational shortcuts are there for text handling and there are system standard shortcuts for things like preferences, window management, file saving, etc. See an image in a web page that you want to grab? Perhaps an image of Scotty speaking into the mouse in Star Trek IV? Just drag it out of the browser and on to your desktop.Ĭlearly the mouse works great on Mac for many tasks, but so does the keyboard. Indeed, Macs take better advantage of the mouse than most other operating systems do, especially in the drag and drop department. I mentioned before that one of the myths that I clung to before considering a Mac was that it was a highly mouse centered machine.
Nichols looks concerned and instructs Scotty to "just use the keyboard".Īfter stretching his fingers like a concert pianist Scotty begins typing furiously on the Mac's keyboard, quickly producing a detailed 3-D graphic to describe how to manufacture transparent aluminum.Īs Scotty would tell you, using the keyboard is clearly better than using a mouse. Scotty pulls the mouse up to his face and says "Hello computer?"ĭr. Bones grabs the mouse and hands it to Scotty. Scotty speaks out in a loud voice: "Computer."
Scotty is offered up the use of a Macintosh sitting on a nearby desk in order to demonstrate the design. McCoy and trying to explain how to construct "transparent aluminum" to Dr. Late in the 20th Century Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott is at the PLEXICORP offices with Dr.