Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!dwells
From: dwells@Apple.COM (Dave Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
Message-ID: <30440@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 May 89 18:52:09 GMT
References: <7891@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <431a1e09.a590@mag.engin.umich.edu> <13402@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <21560@srcsip.UUCP> <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <2312@mit-caf.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 24

In article <2312@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes:
>In article <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> weevil@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Jeff Eliasen) writes:
>>When is Apple going to ship the Macintosh standard with optical mice? I
>
>	Don't optical mice require a special gridded mousepad for the mouse
>to reference?  I usually use a mouse pad, but I'm not sure that I want to
>be forced to use one at all times.  It's nice to use a clean desktop for
>mousing around when the pad isn't big enough.  I hope apple doesn't switch
>to optical mice.
>	If I am wrong in thinking that the special mousepad is required,
>I retract my comment.  If it can be used on any flat surface I have no 
>objection to Apple switching to it.

Yick!  I've yet to see an optical mouse that I like.  With or without the
required grid-pad, they just do not provide the tactile feedback of standard
"roller-ball" mice.  Well, okay.  The tactile feedback that _I_ like anyway.

-Dave

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
           Dave Wells, Apple Computer, Inc.  MS: 37-O  (408) 974-5515
          Mail: dwells@apple.com or AppleLink d.wells or GEnie D.WELLS
 These opinions may be nothing more than the ramblings of a fatigued tinkerer
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-