iMac: Reverting to old mouse
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From: Andy Hewitt on 20 Jul 2010 11:53 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: [..] > > So back to the '90s. I'm happy now. If I'd stayed with the ball mouse, > > I'd have saved some money but who bloody cares..? > > I think these are very personal things, more so than the computer > itself. My mice tend to outlive the use of the computer. > > To my mind, apple have never made a good mouse, and they are getting > worse. > > I like wireless, but like you, I need real buttons that go click, as I > rest my fingers on them and press, I don't hover my fingers above them > and press. As a result the right mouse button never worked on an apple > mouse but I am not relearning my mousing to work with it. I hate that too. Even the touch-click thingy on the trackpads really annoys me, and is the first thing I turn off when I use a computer with the feature enabled. > I currently have a logitech mx something, wireless laser mouse with > scroll both ways. It is the best mouse I have had. I have an old Logitech V270 BT mouse, but it was still too small for my hands, and I still prefer a proper full size keyboard, so have wired mouse and keyboard now. FWIW, I really like the MightyMouse I got. Yes, the ball does get sticky from time to time, but it's an easy job to clean with some alchohol cleaner and a lint free cloth (I use lens tissue). -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Jul 2010 12:12 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > To my mind, apple have never made a good mouse, and they are getting > worse. I'm not sure that they have never made a good one. The earlier oval single button one was pretty good, but I do like a right click too... But touch sensitivity, in an interface design, is for me definitely a step too far. Positivity, that's the key thing. And what I never got with the Magic Mouse. It kept on doing odd things, because I could never be sure that I wasn't, in the heat of the moment, touching *something*. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 20 Jul 2010 12:14 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I could never > be sure that I wasn't, in the heat of the moment, touching *something*. Oh hell. Fnarr, then... -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 20 Jul 2010 12:47 On 20 Jul 2010 15:37:12 GMT, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid>: > >If your address is supposed to be nowhere spelled backwards, you failed. > >If it is supposed to be nohwere backwards, then as you were! It's a literary reference, innit. Cheers - Jaimie -- Now I lay me down to sleep Try to count electric sheep Sweet dream wishes you can keep How I hate the night. - Marvin the paranoid android
From: Woody on 20 Jul 2010 12:57
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On 20 Jul 2010 15:37:12 GMT, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > >John Hill <nemo(a)erewhon.invalid>: > > > >If your address is supposed to be nowhere spelled backwards, you failed. > > > >If it is supposed to be nohwere backwards, then as you were! > > It's a literary reference, innit. Ahh, I don't get that then! -- Woody www.alienrat.com |