apple wheel mouse
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- tron
came across this apple mouse does anyone know if it is a genuine apple product? can't seem to find it on the apple site, and price seems a bit low for an apple product?
- DutchBoy0
definitly NOT.
Apple never makes mice with wheel, right button etc.
it's a sleek ripoff, but ok if you want to stick to Apple style but need the scroll wheel..
- MrBixler0
bit weird that John Lewis call it an Apple mouse.
- ribit0
It's strange Apple won't offer their own 2 button/wheel mouse, even as a 'you must buy it seperately' choice... they have to realise that pro users (especially in modelling where you need 3 buttons) are replacing the Apple mouse immediately.
On my Macs I use Microsoft Intellimouse Optical which is great(and in silver fits in fairly well), but would prefer to get rid of the Microsoft brand!!
- MrBixler0
Hang on, JL are describing the standard single button apple mouse. They've used the wrong photo it seems.
Thought it was a bit cheap.
- Nairn0
You can use a 2+-button mouse on a Mac?!
- BobaFetus0
but would prefer to get rid of the Microsoft brand!!
ribit
(oct 31 04, 04:48)
-------------------Go for Logitech's iFeel optical mouse then. Works great, never gave me a single problem.
- ribit0
Nairn... You have heard of this new standard called USB? ;)
- canine0
the mouse that was on the pic is the MacMice one. It's very light and after only using it for 4 months becomes a bit flakey -- double clicks where it shouldn't and single clicks where it should double...
can't recommend it.
- Nairn0
Sarcasm aside, my one ever gripe with Macs has been the futile minimalist 1-button mouse... all that ctrl/alt/apple-button combo-ing gets right up my nose.
I'm not a mac person, y'know, so never appreciated that the OS would know what to do with any more mouse buttons.
I may consider getting an iBook for a laptop - all the pc ones are shit, and I'm sick of waiting for the ideal one to stick its bloody head out of the woodwork.
- JamesEngage0
12 powerbook swayed me.
- ribit0
yep..right-click is supported by default in OSX (and in Virtual PC), so you dont even need to load the software that comes with the mouse (such as Intellimouse driver).
The mice software (or other 3rd party apps) usually allow you to assign any function to any of the 5+ buttons/wheels on the mouse (eg left handed people can make right button as primary click, left as 'right-click' etc...), run scripts, launch apps, whatever...
- DutchBoy0
i have a mouse (don't use it at the moment, i switch mouses depending on the task at hand) that has 8 (!!) buttons and i can use them ALL on Mac, fully programmable via prefs..
most of the time i use the 1 button Apple mouse combined with one finger on ctrl.
easy.
- ribit0
Who was the interface guy that said "we need to get away from the idea of Napoleonic computing"?
i.e. two hands, use em to do more...
- FTC0
yea, i work in john lewis cambridge on saturdays, in the comp dept, they sell them, its just a cheap alt to the apple mouse.
- lvl_130
not sure if anyone commented on the pictured mouse (even if it's the wrong photo) but...
i had that mouse at work, and it sucks...well if you're a heavy hand mouse user...that sounds really stupid but i'm serious. i kept pressing the right click and it would left click and vice versa. i switched back to the single...don't mind it...and i'm not even a mac guy.
- ********0
used that mouse for 2 months and it died- its a piece of poop.
- JamesEngage0
i use a mac mouse on my pc too
- Kidneon0
I use a logitech mx500 with like 6 buttons and I programed them all with out any software...all OS baby!
- DutchBoy0
a lot of people forget the scrollwheel is usually also a button, you can press it.
and via prefs you can attach any function you want to it..
- Carty0
had the macally BTjr [left, right and scroll wheel] bluetooth mouse and it sucked.
heard about this macmice mouse pictured in this thread, and i heard it sucks as well, [not just in this thread]
had to get a zen like mac cordless mouse no L / R, no wheel, just click. looks sexy, and its reliable.