I've been using computers with a UI mouse since 1984, almost daily, typically for many hours a day. I've used Logitech, Microsoft, Apple, and a half-dozen other brands that no longer exist, in office and home environments. 1-button, two-button, 3 button, & more. Ones that were fully programmable and ones with merely customizable buttons. I've also used track-pads, graphics tablets and track balls. Before mice, I used joy disks built into keyboards to move the cursor on Tektronix CAD systems. Every single one of them failed at one point or another, none ever lasted years without maintenance if you use a mouse heavily.
I use a wired and a wireless MM as my primary input tools, doing delicate Photoshop image retouching for hours every day. In the last two years, I've cleaned them twice each, and that includes working for a year-long stint in a limestone cave that had a high incidence of moist, granular dust. I'll take a wireless MM to the trackpad on my MBP for precision work any day. I absolutely love the roller ball for horizontal scrolling - it's a perfectly intuitive human interface action that indicates to me that Apple "gets the mouse" more than you realize. The MM is twice the input device provided with every Dell, HP or other general market brand of PC I've ever purchased or been issues for work. Heck, some companies are still bundling crappy PS2 peripherals.
Feel free to hate whatever device doesn't suit your methods, but consider that because someone might like putting neon lights in the fenders of a car doesn't make it what everyone else wants. You certainly don't speak for me, and since I've purchased, deployed, and supported hundreds of Macs over a twenty-five year business span, I dare say Apple might want to take my opinion to heart just as much as yours.
If the Mighty Mouse doesn't suit you, buy whatever does. Or you could try washing your hands more often if reading other people's opinions regularly get you all worked up in a sweat.
Since most cad nowadays is 3D they use 3D space navigators which are sort of joystick like, and also some voice control is starting to catch on as well but only for functions and menu selections not cursor movement.
Damn, sweet. They ought to throw that GUI on GIS, too. I've never heard of this Minority Report-like stuff. But then, I did mostly 2D.
I love the Mighty Mouse, at least, the idea of the ball vs. just a wheel. The ball is a bit small. Never had problems with it fouling but that would annoy me if it happened. (I have used one elsewhere but don't own one.) Damn that hockey puck was terrible. They keyboards are pretty good usually from Apple. I'm less of a fan of the flat chiclet keys, though. I do miss that blinding Bondi Blue color scheme...
The new Mighty Mouse sounds like a great step forward. I love my current Mighty Mouse and have never had any of the problems that have caused others to hate it so much.
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I've been using computers with a UI mouse since 1984, almost daily, typically for many hours a day. I've used Logitech, Microsoft, Apple, and a half-dozen other brands that no longer exist, in office and home environments. 1-button, two-button, 3 button, & more. Ones that were fully programmable and ones with merely customizable buttons. I've also used track-pads, graphics tablets and track balls. Before mice, I used joy disks built into keyboards to move the cursor on Tektronix CAD systems. Every single one of them failed at one point or another, none ever lasted years without maintenance if you use a mouse heavily.
I use a wired and a wireless MM as my primary input tools, doing delicate Photoshop image retouching for hours every day. In the last two years, I've cleaned them twice each, and that includes working for a year-long stint in a limestone cave that had a high incidence of moist, granular dust. I'll take a wireless MM to the trackpad on my MBP for precision work any day. I absolutely love the roller ball for horizontal scrolling - it's a perfectly intuitive human interface action that indicates to me that Apple "gets the mouse" more than you realize. The MM is twice the input device provided with every Dell, HP or other general market brand of PC I've ever purchased or been issues for work. Heck, some companies are still bundling crappy PS2 peripherals.
Feel free to hate whatever device doesn't suit your methods, but consider that because someone might like putting neon lights in the fenders of a car doesn't make it what everyone else wants. You certainly don't speak for me, and since I've purchased, deployed, and supported hundreds of Macs over a twenty-five year business span, I dare say Apple might want to take my opinion to heart just as much as yours.
If the Mighty Mouse doesn't suit you, buy whatever does. Or you could try washing your hands more often if reading other people's opinions regularly get you all worked up in a sweat.
you must take lots of drugs
the scroll ball sucks
Since most cad nowadays is 3D they use 3D space navigators which are sort of joystick like, and also some voice control is starting to catch on as well but only for functions and menu selections not cursor movement.
Damn, sweet. They ought to throw that GUI on GIS, too. I've never heard of this Minority Report-like stuff. But then, I did mostly 2D.
I love the Mighty Mouse, at least, the idea of the ball vs. just a wheel. The ball is a bit small. Never had problems with it fouling but that would annoy me if it happened. (I have used one elsewhere but don't own one.) Damn that hockey puck was terrible. They keyboards are pretty good usually from Apple. I'm less of a fan of the flat chiclet keys, though. I do miss that blinding Bondi Blue color scheme...
The new Mighty Mouse sounds like a great step forward. I love my current Mighty Mouse and have never had any of the problems that have caused others to hate it so much.