Mighty Mouse Impressions
MC
practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
curved.
I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
productivity.
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Barry Margolin
MC <cope...@mapca.inter.net> wrote:
> Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> curved.
>
> I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> productivity.
You presumably mean Magic Mouse. Mighty Mouse is the old mouse that
it's replacing.
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Jolly Roger
> Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> curved.
>
> I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> productivity.
I think you mean the Magic Mouse, right?
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Richard Maine
> In article <copespaz-FC170B...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> MC <cope...@mapca.inter.net> wrote:
>
> > To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> > your hand off it completely
>
> I think you mean the Magic Mouse, right?
I get those name confused as well. I had to check or I might have
written it incorrectly in the comments I just posted (see my posting
about impressions of my new 27" iMac).
Let me just say here that I did not find the above comment to be true at
least for me. I can scroll quite fine without taking my hand off the
Magic Mouse; in fact I found the vertical scrolling to be probably its
best feature. Very natural for me and no, I didn't have to take my hand
off or otherwise contort for it. The "momentum" thing in the scrolling
is nice also.
I'm using one right now as I'm posting this.
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Davoud
> Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> curved.
>
> I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> productivity.
I will not judge the mouse until I have tried it. But the MS
Intellimouse sets a very high standard in pointing devices in both
ergonomics and versatility.
Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
Davoud
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MC
Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:
> In article <copespaz-FC170B...@news.eternal-september.org>,
> MC <cope...@mapca.inter.net> wrote:
>
> > Looks elegant. Very minimalist. Bound to win a design prize or two. But
> > practical? To do anything other than click you pretty much have to take
> > your hand off it completely and use the top like a trackpad, and the
> > surface area you have to work with is very small, and of course it's
> > curved.
> >
> > I dare say you could get used to anything, but I can't see switching
> > from my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer would be a step up in
> > productivity.
>
> I think you mean the Magic Mouse, right?
Yes. Brainfart. Sorry.
P. Sture
Michelle Steiner <mich...@michelle.org> wrote:
> In article <281020091820389346%st...@sky.net>, Davoud <st...@sky.net> wrote:
>
> > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
>
> Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.
When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.
It made playing Solitaire and Freecell much easier ;-)
On a serious note, I feared I wasn't doing my hand much good with all
the double clicking Windows required. Having read about RSI etc, it was
a sensible move.
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Davoud
> > > Can one double-click with the Magic Mouse?
Michelle Steiner:
> > Yup; just press the button twice, just as with any other mouse.
Sheesh! Ya gotta spell everything out letter by letter. C-a-n o-n-e
i-s-s-u-e a d-o-u-b-l-e-c-l-i-c-k w-i-t-h t-h-e M-a-g-i-c M-o-u-s-e b-y
p-r-e-s-s-i-n-g a b-u-t-t-o-n o-n-c-e?
And that's not the way just "any other mouse" works. They have buttons
that can be programmed to do a double-click. Have you perhaps found a
way to use your Mac Plus mouse with your current Mac?
P. Sture
> When I still used Windows I always defined the middle button (of a 3
> button mouse - I'd buy one if necessary) as double click.
Exactly what I do with my Microsoft mice on the Macs; I define the
scroll button as the double-click button.
In any case, I'm just back from trying the "Magic" Mouse for about a
half hour at the Annapolis Apple Store. "Tragic" Mouse would better
describe it from my POV--another piece of worthless junk from the Apple
Mouseketeers. For my money Apple should leave the business of mouse
designing to MS and others. Anyone need a "Mighty Mouse?" I've got a
drawer full of 'em, still in the factory wrappers except for the one
that I tried for an hour or two.
> It made playing Solitaire and Freecell much easier ;-)
>
> On a serious note, I feared I wasn't doing my hand much good with all
> the double clicking Windows required. Having read about RSI etc, it was
> a sensible move.
Windows offers the option of opening documents and apps with a single
click. I wonder if there a Mac utility that will enable that?
P. Sture
wrote:
I don't recall Windows offering that option that back in NT 4 days
(which I was still using at work until the end of 2003).
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Davoud
> > Windows offers the option of opening documents and apps with a single
> > click. I wonder if there a Mac utility that will enable that?
P. Sture:
> I don't recall Windows offering that option that back in NT 4 days
> (which I was still using at work until the end of 2003).
Dunno about NT. Went from Win 98 to XP Pro, which is what I was
referring to as permitting a single click.