>> In article wfmdnUr3nsXDWtbUnZ2dnUVZ_tTin...@giganews.com, Tim Lance at
>> see....@bottom.com wrote on 12/19/08 11:10 AM:

>>> I have loved and defended the MM for a long time. After the third take apart
>>> I am giving up on it - I can't get the trackball's ribbon cable to stay in
>>> and am just tired of dealing with it. There are SO MANY other options out
>>> there that I come here to attempt circumventing just as much googling.
>>> Besides, I am one who very much likes to hear/read real person accounts and
>>> experiences in addition to what marketers and "objective" reviewers put out.

>>> What I loved most about my MM was its being a trackball in a mouse. It was
>>> wireless but that is not a primary consideration. If my replacement is to be
>>> wireless it needs to be light (and Bluetooth). I have had a Microsoft
>>> Intellimouse (early edition) and it weighed a ton. Also I have smallish
>>> hands.

>>> I approach this change with some happiness as, besides the cleaning hassle,
>>> the one thing I hated about the MM is only 3 truly functional buttons. At
>>> least on mine, the pressure required to activate the 4th button's side
>>> pressure panels was too much.

>>> Any suggestions for a Bluetooth, small/light, multi-button mouse with a
>>> trackball instead of a scroll wheel?

>>> Thank you, all.

>> I'm about to give up on MM as well. My primary complaint is that the scroll
>> ball never seems to work properly when I attempt to scroll "down": Either it
>> refuses to work, or the amount of pressure and/or the angle at which I need
>> to apply the pressure is simply too much, usually resulting in my
>> inadvertently activating Expose. I find that I can get it to work if I
>> "clean" it by inverting the mouse and rubbing the ball vigorously on a piece
>> of clean white paper -- but this "remedy" only seems to last for a few
>> _minutes_ (I'm not exaggerating).

>> My previous (under OS 9) mouse was a Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical,
>> which I liked a lot. (I had tried Microsoft's "Intellimouse," but it was
>> absolute crap: Its response time was so poor as to make it virtually
>> unusable. I immediately returned it and bought the MouseMan.)

>> I still have the MouseMan, so I decided to update the driver and try it on
>> my iMac. However, after downloading the OS X version of MouseWare, I found
>> that the mouse simply didn't work right on my iMac.

>> So, as it stands right now, I don't know what the solution is. We'll see
>> what others recommend.

> Until you get the point I am try taking the MM apart and cleaning it.