Puck Mice and what to do with them?

johnrpjohnrp
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
As a bit of fun



What are you doing with your old puck style mice (assuming you have upgraded to two button or optical)



Mine are waiting I a darkened ?apple essentials? box waiting to meet their fate.



All suggestions welcome





(Please don?t let this thread become a 1/2 button argument)
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  • Reply 1 of 21
    pevepeve Posts: 518member
    i got a small mac-museum at home and the puck is where it belongs... in the museum <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 2 of 21
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    Mine is back in the little cardboard box within the PowerMac G4 box how it originally came. But the PowerMac box has been confined to the deepest depths of our wine cellar (basement storage closet).
  • Reply 3 of 21
    spiffsterspiffster Posts: 327member
    I saw somewhere in a magazine or something where if you take two, you can make a yo-yo out of them. I thought they were pretty cool.
  • Reply 4 of 21
    lucaluca Posts: 3,833member
    On Applefritter.com someone removed the guts from a puck mouse and put the guts of a PlainTalk microphone in, so it matches the color scheme better.



    I don't have a puck mouse, but the one on my mom's PowerMac G3 has one of those little clip-on dealies that makes it shaped like a normal mouse, and my brother's puck is on his currently unused iMac. He's gone back to ADB for the moment.
  • Reply 5 of 21
    brianmacosbrianmacos Posts: 548member
    I have added my puck mouse to my Apple Collection. I actually got my puck mouse from a friend at work, his kid used it as a toy before.
  • Reply 6 of 21
    spartspart Posts: 2,060member
    I still use mine.



    If you use it correctly, it is quite ergonomic and durable. I don't have any problems with the mouse getting lost in my hand like some people (and I don't have one with the indentation on the button either.)



    Right now I'm debating whether to get a kensington Mouse in a Box Optical, Kensington Studio Mouse, or one of those new MacAlly IceMice.
  • Reply 7 of 21
    banjo billybanjo billy Posts: 80member
    i threw it in a bon fire one night to watch the thing melt out of existance.
  • Reply 8 of 21
    dartblazerdartblazer Posts: 149member
    anyone willing to sell theirs ?
  • Reply 9 of 21
    brianmacosbrianmacos Posts: 548member
    [quote]Originally posted by dartblazer:

    <strong>anyone willing to sell theirs ?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    If you really want to buy one I may sell it Private Message me with a price you would want to pay. It is a blue and in mint condition.
  • Reply 10 of 21
    matsumatsu Posts: 6,558member
    Someone should write a driver that lets you have two mouse pointers on the desktop. The keyboard has one USB port on each side. It'd be cool to navigate the screen with two mice! You could even set them up as left click and right click. HAHAHA...



    Fitting, no? Apple needs twice the number of CPU's to make the equivalent of one X86, so why no twice the numer of mice to equal one standard mouse. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 11 of 21
    wormboywormboy Posts: 220member
    Actually, I recommend people with a portable use the puck for that. I know several that do, and on your ibook you are less likely to be doing something that requires multiple buttons (Q3A for example).
  • Reply 12 of 21
    g-newsg-news Posts: 1,107member
    Q3A does, like all other games, NOT require a second mouse button. It's handy to have one, but it is not required. And actually is less painful with only one button than, for example Diablo 2.



    As for teh two mice idea:

    I've had 2 mice connected for about 2 years now, of course only with one pointer, but it's still hand yot be able to switch between the mice, depending on what you do, without having to restart or similar. Works with ADB too.



    G-News
  • Reply 13 of 21
    evangellydonutevangellydonut Posts: 76member
    i donated my mouseball to a friend who thinks his logitech mouseball was too light...as for the left-over piece, i have no clue where it is, but when i find it, i'll disect it
  • Reply 14 of 21
    ericj551ericj551 Posts: 89member
    [quote] Right now I'm debating whether to get a kensington Mouse in a Box Optical, Kensington Studio Mouse, or one of those new MacAlly IceMice.



    <hr></blockquote>



    I just got a Kensington Optical Elite Mouse (five button) and I love it. Its a great deal for $30, and the two side buttons are useful (for example, I use them to go back and forwards in IE/Chimera/OW). I highly recommend it.
  • Reply 15 of 21
    mimacmimac Posts: 872member
    Easy...stick em on your christmas tree!
  • Reply 16 of 21
    overhopeoverhope Posts: 1,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by Banjo Billy:

    <strong>i threw it in a bon fire one night to watch the thing melt out of existance.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I did much the same with my dead Pro Optical: I made a little coffin and held a mock funeral ceremony during a party, much to everyone's entertainment. Should have videoed it really... we awoke the next day to find that the circuit board and cable had survived...
  • Reply 17 of 21
    gumby5647gumby5647 Posts: 241member
    I hung mine on my rearview mirror in my car. Had it there for the longest of time. It was recently upgraded to an Apple Pro mouse....
  • Reply 18 of 21
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    Pull!



    [shotgun] Ker-BOOM! [/shotgun] <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />



    Well, maybe not in real life, but you CANget some good distance by swinging those mice by the tail.
  • Reply 19 of 21
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,180member
    I'm actually using mine again (I wore out the Kensington Orbit trackball ) on the origional Bondi iMac that it came with...

    ... as for selling it... ABSOLUTELY !!! ... the asking price is...



    $8,498.00



    ... coincidentally, the same price as a maxed-out powermac with a 23" Cinima display.... please by the puck !!!!
  • Reply 20 of 21
    kiu77kiu77 Posts: 68member
    Oh!

    I think there is one thing to do:

    1 Take a hammer

    2 take a 4" nail

    3 ...

    4 take a box

    5 put the nailed puck inside

    6 send it to Apple engineering department.

    7 Don't forget to include a friendly letter where you declare

    8 you've tried to debug an Apple mouse

    9 that now is dead and

    10 that you're very pleased with this masterpice of ergonomy...



    Or try to get the private adress of SJ





    Or

    Wait until winter.

    When water will be frozen you suddenly illuminated and know what to do with a puck...



    Or

    What do you think about a pumpgun and this mouse ?



    Or

    If you like to try something more peacefull action:

    Stick a feather on each "side"..
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