Ditched the mighty mouse

[volvoben]

I'm not a big fan of the mighty either...I thought the pro mouse was alright, but lacked features. unfortunately the mighty mouse has a few features but is not very usable...the trackball is nice overall, but it clogs every few weeks and requires 15 minutes of poking with cardboard and blowing with canned air. The right button is ok, but after almost a year i was still misclicking right/left. the squeeze buttons are lousy; i thought they would be perfect for expose, but in reality i use them to hang on to the mouse (probably learned back in the pro mouse days), so i end up expose-ing all the dang time. I bought an mx1000 and it's really a great mouse. Almost a year old now, still lasts at 2+ weeks between chargings, and i have real right/left click, sideways scrolling if i need it, plus 5 buttons programmed for expose, double-click, other expose, back, forward and i still have 1 more waiting to find a use.

The software from logitech isn't great, it's a pain to program what buttons do what (for example you have to change f10 to be something besides expose, then set the button to be f10, then change expose back), not nearly as slick as the mighty mouse setup, but oh well. There are apparently better programs than logitech's, but i haven't found time to investigate them much.

I give apple's keyboards a 7/10...i still use mine because i don't write much at home, but microsoft's slightly curved model is really where it's at for lots o' writing. strange how microsoft has pretty good peripherals and such lousy core products.

 

[hayduke]

Mighty mouse is mighty awful. Replaced my with an MX Revolution. Dreamy.

 

[phillipjfry]

I love the apple keyboard, one of the most comfy kb's ive ever typed on. I almost hope that apple is goign to replace the MM with something really awesome like a touchy feely kinda scroll. Using the technology of the upcoming iphone

a boy can dream

 

[stompy]

I use computers for long hours, and over the past 20 years I've had wrist and hand pain probs. Long story short: getting the right exercises from a doctor, and the right keyboard/mouse thingies, made all the difference.

What are the right exercises? Anything like these?

 

[dsyroi]

any advice for better tracking?

I've had the wired mighty mouse for about 3 weeks now, and like some things about it, but the tracking on mine is absolute cr*p. I use a sheet of plain white paper under the mouse, this worked fine for my last optical mouse (which I've started using again). For those who find the tracking on the mighty mouse to be good, I would appreciate knowing what type of surface are you using it on?

 

[Father Jack]

A mouse mat

FJ

 

[superspiffy]

The underside of my MM is all scraped up. You know, just the big oval rim that makes contact with the surface. What kind of surface am I suppose to use this mouse on? I have a MBP that I take everywhere so I encounter all kinds of surfaces. Some, rougher than others. But just wondering if anybody else is suffering from scraped undersides.

 

[Father Jack]

The underside of my MM is all scraped up. You know, just the big oval rim that makes contact with the surface. What kind of surface am I suppose to use this mouse on? I have a MBP that I take everywhere so I encounter all kinds of surfaces. Some, rougher than others. But just wondering if anybody else is suffering from scraped undersides.

Why not use a mouse mat?

FJ

 

[dsyroi]

I can certainly pick up a mouse mat, not a huge expense, the thing that I'm puzzled by is that my other optical mouse tracks great without a mouse mat, so it's not clear to me why a mouse mat would help the mighty mouse track better.

 

[superspiffy]

I'd imagine that a soft surface provided by a mouse mat will certainly reduce the friction against the bottom of the MM... but I've had a wired optical Kensington mouse for years that's still as slippery as ever. EDIT: and I've never had to use a stupid mouse mat. The difference is that the Kensington mouse has 4 special pads on the bottom, improving traction, something which the MM does lack.

 

[synth3tik]

I was never able to tolerate that stupid mouse.