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From: mings@obelix.cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
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Subject: Re: bad mousie
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.094018.23973@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 09:40:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar28.202710.10052@cs.umn.edu> aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson) writes:
>phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>What is the general opinion of Apple mice? Especially in comparison to
>>Microsoft Mice, if any of you have used them?
>
>Old style Mac mouse		yuck, but beats MS mouse. Ugly, tough, clunky.
>Newer style Mac mouse (adb)	The Best Mouse Ever.*
>Latest version (light ball)	eeh, tracking problems, otherwise great.
>Sun optical mouse (w/SLCs)	Very decent.
>Microsoft mouse			Terrible, the buttons click too easily, and 
>				the fingers tend to lean on them.  The feel
>				is neither bad nor good.  The shape is a pain
>				and it's ugly!
>HP mouse (w/HP9000)		Weird feel & grip, tracks ok, bad shape. Ugly.
>Kensington Turbo Mouse (trackball)
>	New style		Horrible. The buttons wear out quickly.
>				Attractive. Yes it gets dirty.
>	Old style		Horrible. As tough as Mac mice, but harder to
>				clean. Feel isn't as good as new style. Ugly.
>		--- Trackballs are an evil. ---
>I have an off-brand of mouse at home for my PC that is ugly but works great.
>_________________________
>* If you must have details...
>Tough, attractive, great feel, great grip, on and on.  The only thing not
>perfect is that it needs to be cleaned from time to time.  But it beats
>having to have an optical pad.

Hmm... interesting, my opinion is almost exactly the opposite to yours, Brian.
I think the best mouse I have ever used is the original Mac (non adb) mouse.
The heavy adb one is not bad, but it just happened to be too small.  The
light adb is the worst Mac mouse.  And I do not like those optical mouse,
it's much harder to position an optical one than a mechanical mouse (from
my experience with the Sparc's mouse, I think the problem is because one
has to position the mouse pad right in order to get the cursor moves right).
The MS mouse is aboust the worst among all mechanical mouse, it's too light
and too thin, besides the mouse buttons are too sensitive.  On the other
hand, the DEC station mouse is just too bulky, it's very hard for one to
grab the DEC mouse.

BTW, IMO, the choice of mouse pad is also affecting the performance of the
mouse.  I think the best mouse pad I have ever used is the one which I am
using now, the Mouse-HHide.  It's made from real leather.  The advantage of
this mouse pad is it always gives me good tracking on the mouse, and I
rarely need to clean my mouse (I use my Mac everyday, but I clean my mouse
once a year, in fact, I feel once a year is still too often for my mouse).
But it seems that the Mouse-Hide is out of production now, too bad !



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