Not so mighty mouse...

[Charles Dyer]

On 19 Dec 2007, at 12:01:20, steve harley wrote:

> they whom i call William Ehrich wrote:
>> I've only used it at the Apple store. The high resolution scrolling  
>> is wonderful! I wish a normal mouse were available with that (with  
>> a wheel, not a rubber ball that needs to be cleaned).
>
> can you explain what you mean by "high resolution" so that i can  
> relate it to my experience with other mice?

A small movement with a Mighty Mouse can result in a larger scrolling  
than with other mice. For example, I have a Logitech trackball on my  
main Mac alongside the Apple-supplied Mighty Mouse. I also have a  
Logitech mouse on one of my other Macs. I use the Mighty Mouse for  
most things and the trackball for when I _must_ have small, precise  
movements precisely because a single flip of the scroll ball on the  
Mighty Mouse scrolls large areas, while I can be extremely precise  
with the trackball. The scroll wheel on the trackball behaves exactly  
the same way that the scroll wheel on the Logitech mouse does: a given  
movement on the wheel scrolls things between one third and one half  
what a given movement on the Mighty Mouse scroll ball does. And, of  
course, the scroll wheel only works for vertical scrolling, not  
horizontal. (Using two different devices is also nice as I can have  
one set at a different level than the other. My trackball is set low  
because of what I use it for, but even at its top setting it behaves  
about the way the Mighty Mouse behaves at the middle setting.)

> my offhand sense is that what you describe is available in other  
> products (whether you mean finely controlled movements or rapid  
> scrolling)
>
> personally i'm pretty happy with my Logitech MX Nano, a small,  
> medium-quality mouse with a tiny transmitter plug; the salient  
> feature is available in several Logitech mice -- a two-mode wheel,  
> free spinning or ratcheted (i looked at Bluetooth mice but shied  
> away due to many reports of reduced responsiveness vs. 2.4 GHz)
>
> and a question: does the Mighty scroll ball have the same problem as  
> multi-touch trackpad scrolling, namely that unwanted side to side  
> scrolling happens?

Not usually.

> i ask because i'm often annoyed when pages scroll sideways slightly  
> when scrolling with a trackpad; it's hard to stay 100% vertical; a  
> scroll wheel with shift suits me better
>
>
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