I need to have a minimum of 20 buttons myself.. why doesn't apple make a 20 button mouse yet?? geezus. :)

They could just put a sensor on the bottom of the keyboard, and the you have a 101 button mouse. ;)

Seriously though, I have had a 5 button Microsoft Trackball 1.0 that I brought with me from Windows, back when I switched to OSX - Back at OSX 10.0.4. (By that time it was over a year old).

I have never needed any extra software to use all 5 buttons in OSX, and since Panther I have had the extra three controlling Expose... Nice.

It seems to me like if the point is to get rid of hand movement between the keyboard and the mouse by adding buttons to the mouse, then why did we move away from the keyboards that had trackballs and trackpads built in?

Translation: the vendor thinks so little of the Mac market that he won't provide software support so we can actually use his his product as intended, and will in fact require us to buy 3rd-party software instead, but he still thinks that Mac users will buy his product.

Sadly, they're right. Mac users _will_ buy their product, despite the insult. Not _this_ Mac user, though.