Alternative to Wireless Mighty Mouse?
Robert La Ferla
robertlaferla at comcast.net
Fri Apr 27 19:36:57 PDT 2007
I recently purchased a Wireless Mighty Mouse. It's a flawed
product. First, the Bluetooth connection would get lost and then my
system got a kernel panic. That's a driver issue so I figured I'd
live with it until Apple fixed it. But the bigger issue is the right
button. To use it, you need to not touch the left side of the
mouse. I found this bit of information by searching around on the
web. However, even that does not work reliably. It seems that
Apple is fixated on the one-button mouse and can't really get their
heads around a two-button one. It reminds me of when everyone
screamed for a NeXT floppy drive and NeXT didn't listen until it was
too late. Apple can and should do better than this. There are some
things I like about the mighty mouse - two batteries (so you don't
have to change them constantly), bluetooth security and better
tracking. I had a "Microsoft Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000"
before this and it was better ergonomically and the buttons always
worked. It had it's downside too. The tracking was terrible and it
used batteries like water. Someone can surely do better. We need a
wireless (Bluetooth) mouse that has good ergonomics and left/right
buttons like the MS mouse, a trackball like the Apple mighty mouse,
and fine tracking like the Apple mouse. Anyone have any suggestions?
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/
productdetails.aspx?pid=048
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
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