i have a new G5... and i still use my old puck mouse...

ghiangeloghiangelo
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
yup. i plugged in my old bondi blue puck into my keyboard. i don't know why but i find it works really well. the puck that came with my old G4 PCI was not so great.



so out of curiousity, how many people here have current computer setups with parts mixed with old and new?



ghi

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ghiangelo

    yup. i plugged in my old bondi blue puck into my keyboard. i don't know why but i find it works really well. the puck that came with my old G4 PCI was not so great.



    so out of curiousity, how many people here have current computer setups with parts mixed with old and new?



    ghi



    That damn thing along with the "great new" OS8.? or os9 (I dont remember or care) that I used in high school led me to sewar off (and swear at) Macs for a long time...till I saw Jaguar in person...
  • Reply 2 of 11
    jimdreamworxjimdreamworx Posts: 1,097member
    Why does everyone slag the hockey puck?



    Once you learn to place your palm on it, the damn thing "just works!"
  • Reply 3 of 11
    ebbyebby Posts: 3,110member
    I bought a G5 to replace my Beige G3. I basically unplugged the G3, removed it, and plugged in the G5 in its place. I use the same monitor, speakers, external drives, and gadgets from the previous computer. If I could still use my G3 ADB keyboard, I would. (I like it a little better than this little white one.) It also has all my Final Cut Pro stickers on the keys. I have the same cheap $4 Logitech USB optical mice on every computer and they work great.
  • Reply 4 of 11
    sunilramansunilraman Posts: 8,133member
    dude what an insult to the G5



    nah it's all cool bro, i am writing this on an old-skool USRobotics 56k modem - remember the v.90 vs. kflex or something "56k modem wars".... *sigh* old skool bro



    can't wait for broadband to be back up bloody rubbish wireless routers, they just don't make them well nowadays. this 56k modem is almost 10 years old, it's a bloody beast! the monitor i am currently using is a mitsubishi 15" diamond scan CRT... 10years old as well and still going strong.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JimDreamworx

    Why does everyone slag the hockey puck?



    Once you learn to place your palm on it, the damn thing "just works!"



    Sure but when you don't grab it straight, which you can't tell because the fscking thing is round, your pointer goes off at odd angles and makes you want to kill someone at apple.
  • Reply 6 of 11
    jimdreamworxjimdreamworx Posts: 1,097member
    But that's what the cord is there for - goes between second and third fingers.
  • Reply 7 of 11
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Quote:

    Why does everyone slag the hockey puck?



    Simple, because it's horrible design.
  • Reply 8 of 11
    shawnjshawnj Posts: 6,656member
    I never bothered to get a mouse for my PowerBook.
  • Reply 9 of 11
    buonrottobuonrotto Posts: 6,368member
    I actually loved the old puck design. I got a lot more use out of it with less discomfort. Apple did introduce a simple but effective way to get the orientation of the mouse right -- they added an indentation on the mouse button in one of the iMac revisions. Your fingers would rest on it there and it was easy to feel/find the head of the mouse. Anyway, I wouldn't care if they deviated from the shape a bit, the point to me was that it was easier to hold and move around at that size. Its low profile and short radius that fit under your fingers meant that you didn't bend your wrist much at all when holding it.



    I think the problem is/was that people expect to hold a mouse in the palm of their hand, but IMO this is problemmatic because it makes you twist your wrist around in unnatural positions to move the thing (fingers have more range in a plane, and wrists move more or less orbitally), plus the higher profile of other mice usually make people bend their wrists up as their arms get tired of "hovering over the work surface in order to keep the wrist-forearm angle neutral, which is problemmatic in the long term.



    I don't have any legacy Apple-supplies parts on my iMac, but you get the same effect if you consider that printers, scanners, external hard drives, card readers and such usually don't match each other or the main piece of hardware very well anyway.
  • Reply 10 of 11
    scottscott Posts: 7,431member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by JimDreamworx

    But that's what the cord is there for - goes between second and third fingers.



    The cord is way past the button. If my finger tips are on the button then I can't feel the cord.



    I kind of liked the puck too but it was seriously flawed.
  • Reply 11 of 11
    jimdreamworxjimdreamworx Posts: 1,097member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Scott

    The cord is way past the button. If my finger tips are on the button then I can't feel the cord. I kind of liked the puck too but it was seriously flawed.



    It's hard to describe, but yes your finger tips would not be on the button, they would, you would push with the part of your fingers after the joint of the tip.



    Either way, when Apple decided the new mouse would have no button, ie. the body is the button, that was a stroke of genius!
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