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I never pointed out the touch sensitive component as a similarity. But since we're on the topic... Holding down the option key (or doing some other user-defined keystroke) changes the scrolling from up/down to left/right. I never saw the need for a left/right scrolling function. I always had a monitor that could handle it. And on the off-chance that I needed to it was never too much of a hassle to move to the scroll-bar or even hold a pre-defined button (i.e. the space bar in Photoshop) to perform a "grab" function without ever having to worry about it being implemented poorly. If I used programs like Studio Max or MAYA more often I could see a bigger market niche, but I'd want those companies to handle the design of their own input devices. This "hack" you mention would be as simple as going into System Preferences (where the Studio Mouse's driver pane is) and setting it up. Speaking of the Studio Mouse's preference pane, it looks exactly like Apple's (think about which came first?). It sounds like Apple is trying to cover that area of a potential market where some nay-sayers are still saying that Apple sucks because they only have 1 button on their mice. So they come out with a 5 button mouse to compensate? Can you say overkill? Why Apple feels like they need to create a poorly designed, poorly implemented, 3 year-old idea and call it their own is beyond me. My only hope is that they're introducing this early so that when the next OS X comes out, the general market will be already used to it to save time in introducing a new feature (don't you think we're ready for more 3-D features in our GUIs?). Apple's been doing so good with the iMac, Mac Mini, iPod, etc. Why take this giant step backwards with this? Leave the peripherals to the devotees.