not so mighty mouse
I saw this over at mezzoblue, the blog of Dave Shea of CSS Zen Garden fame.
I couldn’t agree more.
Since I got my macbook pro, I’ve been lusting after a bluetooth mouse. After working at home with my wireless MS mouse for so long, I’m used to not having a wire holding me down, and thought that a wireless mouse would be even more of an advantage on a notebook. So I gave in last week, and purchased a bluetooth mighty mouse from our school bookstore for a cool $69. After taking it out of the box and putting in the batteries, of course the computer picked it right up. I pressed the side button(s) and expose popped up. I right clicked. I thought I was god. Wireless god, of course.
Then it started getting to me. The side buttons are *really* hard to click on the fly. It seems like I have to put thought into launching expose. The scroll wheel would scroll untouched every now and again, especially if you lift the mouse off the tracking surface. And that damned right clicking. I think my hands aren’t meant for the human-ground sensors that apple uses. Every now and again I have to switch fingers when I’m using my iPod(s), and the mighty mouse is no exception. It wouldn’t bug me so much except when I’m trying to right-click, the sensor doesn’t register that I’m “right” clicking, and defaults to the left click. Quite annoying. It also was too much to get used to have to lift my left finger to right click; I’m used to doing a seamless right click. My last item to note – and remember that I’m no gamer – is “damn lag”. Not much. Not much at all, really, but just barely enough to piss me off when I’m doing some photo editing, or going in for a small checkbox and miss it by a couple pixels on either side.
So what did I do about it? I gave it away. To my boss. (Brownie points, Laura? :) I hope she likes it. What else did I do?
I bought another bluetooth mouse. More specifically the Wireless IntelliMouse® Explorer for Bluetooth™ (that’s exactly how it’s written on the bottom of it) So I make the jump to microsoft from apple. Only setbacks of the new mouse are that it doesn’t turn off, which came in really handy when I would toss the BTMM in my backpack, and that it still lags the same amount. Bottom line? It was on clearance at our bookstore fro $20 off, what could I do? I can’t return it… so I guess I’ll keep it – even if I stick to my touchpad.
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