Black & White Apple Pro Mice

monkeyastronaut · April 13, 2003 1:17AM

I'm planning on purchasing an Apple Pro Mouse for my PB. Is there any technical difference between the black and the white devices? I sort of know the black ones came out first, but I just want to make sure they do the exact same stuff.

Which one do you like better? I'd like to hear suggestions.

overhope · April 13, 2003 5:05AM

They're functionally identical, it's just the inner housing that's a different colour.

Though the white ones look gay.

defiant · April 13, 2003 6:10AM

Xidius:

murbot · April 13, 2003 6:29AM

Or, he could just mean that they look gay.

Someone has homosexuality on the brain, and I don't think it's Overhope.

jll · April 13, 2003 7:07AM

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Originally posted by monkeyastronaut

I'm planning on purchasing an Apple Pro Mouse for my PB. Is there any technical difference between the black and the white devices? I sort of know the black ones came out first, but I just want to make sure they do the exact same stuff.

Which one do you like better? I'd like to hear suggestions.

Unless you can find a dealer which has the black mouse in stock, you won't be able to buy it, since Apple stopped selling it.

jambo · April 13, 2003 7:26AM

What JLL said.

Black Pro Mouse is EOL.

matsu · April 13, 2003 10:07AM

I liked the white keyboard better, but it really does get ratty and fully of visible dust, hair, lint etc etc, you should see the ones in the new undergrad labs, they keyboards are already ugly.

I didn't like the black either because the keys had a nasty habit of going all shiny and being hard to see under different lighting conditions. More Blech!

I don't think it's a problem with the mice though, and both look good.

Apple should replace their pro keyboards with a metal version with similar key action to their new PB's and backlit key technology, powered over USB, natch. At the very least make the clear plastic on the current keyboards opaque by painting the inside, like the current iBooks -- that way the keep their transluscence. The injected white case of the CD-rom iBook does indeed look gay.

monkeyastronaut · April 13, 2003 10:14AM

I ask cos a CompUSA store kinda close to me has white ones "in stock" and black ones "in limited quantities." I'm leaning towards the black one. I hope I can still find it.

not unlike myself · April 13, 2003 1:40PM

I think the white one is gay too.

job · April 13, 2003 1:54PM

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Originally posted by monkeyastronaut

I ask cos a CompUSA store kinda close to me has white ones "in stock" and black ones "in limited quantities." I'm leaning towards the black one. I hope I can still find it.

try one of the major resellers like compusa or frys electronics as they may still carry them, even though the black mice are EOL'ed. my local compuhut still had about seven black mice in stock.

monkeyastronaut · April 13, 2003 2:24PM

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Originally posted by job

try one of the major resellers like compusa or frys electronics as they may still carry them, even though the black mice are EOL'ed. my local compuhut still had about seven black mice in stock.

Thanks, I'll try that.

leonis · April 13, 2003 9:23PM

Why Apple's when you can get some nice looking MULTI-BUTTON mouses for half the price?

algol · April 13, 2003 9:42PM

Multi button!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Kill HIM. Beat him to death. Eat his dog!

sorry that kind of just came out unexpected.

saabmp3 · April 13, 2003 10:51PM

Get the logitech mouse.......soooooo sweet.

BEN

monkeyastronaut · April 13, 2003 11:12PM

Multi button mice.. well.. I wouldn't buy logitech. I'm kinda pissed at their OSX support. My PC webcam won't work on the mac. So I'm banning them! Unless they have some really cool stuff.

And MS mice.. well.. trying to avoid them. I'm a switcher and I want as little as MS as I can handle...

Besides the Pro Mice are stylish! I love the feel of it when you "click."

fred_lj · April 13, 2003 11:43PM

I'd have to agree with looking for a Logitech mouse. I got a really good deal ($15) on a traveler optical mouse (brushed metal and black - two button plus scrollwheel, which I have admittedly grown to like having used Windows so much at work). It really isn't that much smaller (but you can feel the size difference upon moving to a full-size mouse) -- works well with/coordinates nicely with my TiBook, too.

defiant · April 14, 2003 12:13AM

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Originally posted by murbot

Someone has homosexuality on the brain, and I don't think it's Overhope.

and who do you have in view?

splinemodel · April 14, 2003 12:30PM

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Originally posted by monkeyastronaut

Multi button mice.. well.. I wouldn't buy logitech. I'm kinda pissed at their OSX support. My PC webcam won't work on the mac. So I'm banning them! Unless they have some really cool stuff.

And MS mice.. well.. trying to avoid them. I'm a switcher and I want as little as MS as I can handle... Besides the Pro Mice are stylish! I love the feel of it when you "click."

They have great mouse support. I would actualy prefer the Apple mouse for most things, but sometimes it's handy t have the extra buttons. Mostly they just get in the way, though. But it's the mousing of the Logitech that makes it good. It has a really good optical sensor.

luca · April 14, 2003 12:38PM

The one thing really lacking from Logitech's OS X drivers is support for different button functions in different applications. Otherwise it's fine.

I have to admit, after getting an MS mouse I'm spoiled by the good software drivers MS writes. I can navigate the finder using my side buttons, or change it to back and forward for browsing the web, or have them zoom in and out in Preview, and so on. Very handy. MS isn't a very nice company but their drivers are good. And so is the XBox. So I wouldn't just avoid MS mice completely. But their mice tend to feel very light and somewhat cheap when you first get them - Logitech mice are pretty heavy on the other hand.

For good drivers, though, try Kensington. I absolutely HATE the Studio Mouse but I admit the drivers are excellent. They allow you to set a function to a left-right chord, and change the amount of acceleration.

monkeyastronaut · April 14, 2003 5:56PM

Thanks for your input. I'll consider all the options

spiffster · April 14, 2003 9:22PM

IIRC, the Apple Pro Mice are $50, correct? Well that same $50 can get you a Logitech MX700. Best mouse ever created. I got it to replace the white pro mouse that came with my iMac. The Pro Mouse was too small for my hands, and the tracking just didn't feel right to me.

Also, get MouseZoom. This little control panel lets you set your mouse sensitivity has high as you want. I really don't know how I lived with out it.

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