Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Just My Opinion: The Macintosh IIsi Message-ID: Date: 12 Mar 91 04:06:13 GMT References: <16757@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1991Mar7.215401.12288@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Lines: 24 In <1991Mar7.215401.12288@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes: >>3. The mouse is absolute crap. When moving horizontally, sometimes >>it "sticks" at one column, and moving gently back and forth won't get >>it past that column--you have to jerk it. Keeping the mouse rollers >>absolutely clean helps some. I'm told it's the fault of the >>lightweight (black) mouse ball, and if you can find a good (gray) >>ball, it works better. >It always astounds me that Apple continues to cut corners on the >mouse. The first mouse (mac II, SE, '87) had a heavy ball and worked >well. This was a big selling point of those macs -- better keyboard >and mouse than the Mac Plus. Apple (according to David Ramsey's coulmn in MacWEEK) is supplying one of three different mice. One of them is made in America and is the best. It has a heavy grey ball. I have a Mac IIsi and must be just lucky. I GOT THE GOOD ONE!!! -- +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ | Patrick Hoepfner | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center | | America Online: PatrickH9 | Internet: hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+