Re: Mighty Mouse (was: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd))
Re: Mighty Mouse (was: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd))
- Subject: Re: Mighty Mouse (was: Recommend Three Button Mouse? (fwd))
- From: Jay Levitt <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:03:28 -0400
This is the best Mac mouse thread I've ever seen. (Apologies to those folks
who would like to actually talk about X11.)
Timothy Goins wrote:
My Mighty Mouse
(optical) that I have used for several years has been the most reliable
of them all, both for standard Apple applications as well as X-11.
True, the "wheel button" can get dirty; hence, canned air.
That's good to know; maybe it works better in office environments. Here at
home, I have a cat, and I eat and drink at my computer more often than I
keep swearing not to. Canned-air is already a morning-and-evening ritual,
and I do the upside-down-on-paper cleaning every few days, but the Mighty
Mice still die after a few months. I've taken to keeping a cold spare around.
Mark J. Reed wrote:
and I will never understand
how people can use the 4th or 5th buttons without hitting them
accidentally all the time.
Funny. I agree, and I found them so unusable that I forgot I even had them
till you just reminded me.
dp wrote:
This mouse actually has no buttons as such, but relies on finger contact
at the points where buttons would actually be.
This is an important point for anyone considering a Mighty Mouse, especially
if you already hate scroll wheels: You *must* lift your right finger to
properly left-click. The mouse is touch-sensitive, and if your right
finger's resting on the mouse, you have a decent chance of it detecting a
right-click instead of a left-click. After six months, I'm still
mis-clicking at least once a day. If you've got any type of tendinitis,
carpal tunnel, painful fingers, etc., don't get a Mighty Mouse.
(Now that I think about it, I wonder if it'd be possible to write a driver
that reads the touch sensor directly, and assume left-click unless the left
button is NOT being touched, rather than the other way around. More
specifically, I wonder if it'd be possible for someone *else* to write that
driver.)
Oh, and one other interesting caveat: The mighty mouse is very slim and flat
compared to modern-day "ergonomic" mice, and requires some pronation of the
wrist and forearm, just like flat vs. ergonomic keyboards. I wouldn't mind
that so much, but I have started getting a rash on my forearm, which now
brushes against my chair's armrest. I've even gone so far as to replace the
fabric armrests with vinyl and then leather, and wrapping them in a modal
towel ("modal" the textile, not the window type). No such luck. Maybe you
build up calluses over time.
Jay
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