Apple Pro Mouse
I have spent a ton of money (stupidly) on mice for my mac, PB G4. I have an assortment of Logitech notebook mice (including the new V500) and the MX 1000 Laser. If it looks like a good mouse I probably have it.
Point: I have all the good mice, and a nicee slim leather sleeve for my PB. The corded Apple Pro Mouse is still the best mouse for every day use. So, people, unless you just get turned on by having a ton of buttons, don't waste your money like I have.
Scroll wheel: Nice, but I always grab the scroll bar to adjust anyway.
Back button: Nice, but I have to move the mouse anyway to click on other stuff, so is it really a big deal to hit the back button
Forward button: Same
The real problem for Mac users: Control Click. I am not a key board short guy, I use the mouse for everything, but I have never NOT used the keyboard when sitting at my Mac.
Point: I have all the good mice, and a nicee slim leather sleeve for my PB. The corded Apple Pro Mouse is still the best mouse for every day use. So, people, unless you just get turned on by having a ton of buttons, don't waste your money like I have.
Scroll wheel: Nice, but I always grab the scroll bar to adjust anyway.
Back button: Nice, but I have to move the mouse anyway to click on other stuff, so is it really a big deal to hit the back button
Forward button: Same
The real problem for Mac users: Control Click. I am not a key board short guy, I use the mouse for everything, but I have never NOT used the keyboard when sitting at my Mac.
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But every time I visit my inlaws to do some maintenance for them, I enjoy using their single-button pro mouse.
So, when I got my mini, I bought a corded pro mouse to go with it for $29. It really is a comfortable mouse to use.
I am an electrical engineer and, when drawing schematics, I click *all day* with very little actual typing. At the risk of sounding like a complete wuss, my clicking finger gets tired after a few hours and a few thousand clicks.
the whole-hand method of the one button mouse makes things go so much easier, and is worth the need to control-click every once and a while. Oddly enough, I find I miss that a whole lot more then the scroll wheel.
It really is by far the best mouse out there. Logitech makes mice that are 800 dpi, but they skip around and don't track any more accurately than the pro mouse.
I wish that since control-click gave the contextual menus, that there was a way to program a function-click or something else.
I have 2 bluetooth Apple pro mouse. I use rechargable batteries so I am not concerned replacing them. I find it very frustrating to use though. Seems that it has a lot of lag time and goes to sleep too often. Doesn't track well either.
The short cord on the Pro Mouse is genious, it fits well with a PB so there isn't five miles of cord. I just want to get people to give thier simple one-button pro mouse a chance before wasting a bunch of money like I have.
Originally posted by Relic
Yeah, I love the single mouse button feel. The bluetooth version is a must have.
ditto
Originally posted by pbaker05
I have two BT's and I don't seem to like either one. It seems the tracking is eratic. Does anyone else have this problem?
Make sure you have the Bluetooth upgrade. I've heard of problems if the most recent is not installed.
Barring that, make sure that your mousing surface is appropriate for an optical mouse. (i.e. nothing reflective)
Why did Apple stop making the click tension adjustable in the corded mice?
Originally posted by pbaker05
Why did Apple stop making the click tension adjustable in the corded mice?
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Originally posted by pbaker05
I have spent a ton of money (stupidly) on mice for my mac, PB G4. I have an assortment of Logitech notebook mice (including the new V500) and the MX 1000 Laser. If it looks like a good mouse I probably have it.
Point: I have all the good mice, and a nicee slim leather sleeve for my PB. The corded Apple Pro Mouse is still the best mouse for every day use. So, people, unless you just get turned on by having a ton of buttons, don't waste your money like I have.
Scroll wheel: Nice, but I always grab the scroll bar to adjust anyway.
Back button: Nice, but I have to move the mouse anyway to click on other stuff, so is it really a big deal to hit the back button
Forward button: Same
The real problem for Mac users: Control Click. I am not a key board short guy, I use the mouse for everything, but I have never NOT used the keyboard when sitting at my Mac.
do you find the V500 scrolling responsive? Do you have a problem with tracking? My logitech mice have huge problems on OS X!
Wonder if they'll go to a brushed aluminum mouse/keyboard at some point. The white is so ipody.
oh and i do play FPS games quite regularly with it as well... Id still use the puck mouse from my first imac if it were just optical, It was the most comfortable mouse ive ever used
Originally posted by gjas15
Ihave the old logitech wheel mouse (i think it was one of the first optical mice logitech made) and it works great i have no issue with tracking irregularities and what not. The right click is broken (just touching the button will click) besides that though this mouse has gone to hell and back and still works perfectly.
oh and i do play FPS games quite regularly with it as well... Id still use the puck mouse from my first imac if it were just optical, It was the most comfortable mouse ive ever used
logitech admitted the problem - it only occrs when the logitech control centre is installed. I have to install it to enable side-scrolling and battery life indicator!
Originally posted by pbaker05
I have spent a ton of money (stupidly) on mice for my mac, PB G4. I have an assortment of Logitech notebook mice (including the new V500) and the MX 1000 Laser. If it looks like a good mouse I probably have it.
Point: I have all the good mice, and a nicee slim leather sleeve for my PB. The corded Apple Pro Mouse is still the best mouse for every day use. So, people, unless you just get turned on by having a ton of buttons, don't waste your money like I have.
Scroll wheel: Nice, but I always grab the scroll bar to adjust anyway.
Back button: Nice, but I have to move the mouse anyway to click on other stuff, so is it really a big deal to hit the back button
Forward button: Same
The real problem for Mac users: Control Click. I am not a key board short guy, I use the mouse for everything, but I have never NOT used the keyboard when sitting at my Mac.
I have a corded two button clear/white optical mouse which cost me $3.00 and I have to say that I wouldn't go back to the Apple Pro[fit] Mouse. I love the Mac, but personally I think the mouse thing is a big rip-off, and I find being able to right-click and scroll makes my job so much easier and faster!
Just my opinion
So I am married to my Logitech MX500 that I've had for a year and a half. Not only do I greatly enjoy the ergonomics of it, but I can't live without the extra buttons now in OS X. Two of them for expose (F11 and F9), one for page up, one for page down, one for cmd-m, scroll wheel, and of course, ctrl-click. I'm not saying the mouse is perfect but it has served me well. At times I wished it was smaller, I'm not a big fan of the mouse that are molded to fit all they way up into the palm of your hand. I like to control the mouse with my fingertips and that big hump feels like it gets in the way sometimes. Not to mention, Logitech's drivers are complete crap too.
Originally posted by telekon
I have a corded two button clear/white optical mouse which cost me $3.00 and I have to say that I wouldn't go back to the Apple Pro[fit] Mouse. I love the Mac, but personally I think the mouse thing is a big rip-off, and I find being able to right-click and scroll makes my job so much easier and faster!
Just my opinion
right click and scrolling save so much time although touch sensitive scroling will take some taking used to (both on my PowerBook (still yet to arrive) and V500!)
Originally posted by bborofka
Not to mention, Logitech's drivers are complete crap too.
I use my MX500 without drivers, expose can still program buttons so it's fine.