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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New mouse design... WHY?!
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Date: 18 May 89 23:11:45 GMT
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In article <2600@nmtsun.nmt.edu> weevil@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Jeff Eliasen) writes:
>Today's rhetoric question:

>When is Apple going to ship the Macintosh standard with optical mice? I
>figure maybe an increase in price of $50, which is small enough that it
>could probably be ignored...
>- Jeffrey Eliasen

While perhaps being a rhetorical question, I for one would not want an
optical mouse. They require those reflective pads. If you mouse at
angles to the x/y pattern on the pad, the mouse movement is strange.
I prefer a trackball myself, no worries about dirty mice, much more
sensative and accurate than a mouse. The only place I've seen a mouse
work better than a trackball is some games. Other than that trackballs
IMHO are much better than mice and significantly better than optical
mice...