Is Apple doing a good job?

[Vince]

Yep, you absolutely can copy your bookmarks, personal info, passwords, etc. into Firefox without losing them in IE. All you have to do is open Firefox and choose "File", then "Import". You'll see the option already selected for Internet Explorer. When you click next, you'll be able to copy over anything that you allowed IE to save in the past.

There was some type of problem with the transfer again. I've just reinstalled Firefox again, setting it up as my default browser. In the setup process, it asked me if I wanted to transfer my bookmarks and homepage. I said 'yes' of course, but it didn't transfer the bookmarks, even though it had specifically asked about it and I told it to transfer the bookmarks.

Then afterwards, I went into 'File' and 'Import' as you suggest. It again asked me if I wanted to transfer bookmarks from IE to Firefox, so I clicked 'Next'. Guess what? Nothing happened. The bookmarks never transfered. I don't have them. (Not that this reflects on you, but I get frustrated with these goofy computers.) Now I have to uninstall Firefox for a second time to get my bookmarks back again.

Am I out of options? Or is there something more that I can do? I must have those bookmarks. I have about 200 bookmarks that I've organized over the years into various subfolders.

EDIT: Oh wait, forget it. This time it still allows me to use IE when I want, even with Firefox installed. In my previous installation of Firefox, it deleted my IE icons and bookmarks. I still can't access my IE bookmarks through the Firefox browser (because they won't transfer for some reason), but I can at least still access IE with Firefox installed (unlike last time).

Hopefully, everything should run smooth now. I'd like to respond to a few more posts soon. Thanks much for your help.

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With the new Powerbooks, the trackpad is actually one big button. So if you press on the track pad hard enough, the entire pad will give under your fingers and give you a physical "click". Since there is now a button, the old buttons that accompany a trackpad are now removed, which means the trackpad itself is now huge, and totally manageable with your fingers.

For the Windows users, you can even assign a corner of the pad to click on the left or right to register like a typical windows mouse. It is completely customizable.

The finger motions you were talking about are called "gestures'. You are right--you can use one finger to point and click, or two fingers to scroll a page up and down. Three fingers will let you flip your browser forward and backwards, and four fingers lets you move the actual windows around, when you grab them at the top and drag them. The beauty behind the gestures is that the laptop does a great job interpreting what you want to do. There are many other gestures you can do, like rotating your index finger and thumb on the glass track surface to rotate a picture. Or pinch your fingers together on the glass to shrink and image, while spreading apart your index finger after and thumb will create a zoom effect on photos.

If you go here:

http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/features-17inch.html

and scroll down about half way, you'll see a Quicktime video with these gestures in action. I've tried them as well on a new MacBook Pro that my friend purchased, and it is really a productivity booster! Much better than the 2-inch wide pads that you typically find on PC laptops.

This does really seem like a productivity booster. Perhaps the standard computers will get up to speed in a few years.