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Mensaje del debate replacement for Mighty Mouse

Nick Naym

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Más opciones 19 dic 2008, 12:34

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De: Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>

Fecha: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:34:15 -0500

Local: Vie 19 dic 2008 12:34

Asunto: Re: replacement for Mighty Mouse

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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.

--
iMac (24", 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320 GB HDD) € OS X (10.5.4)

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