I’m using the Magic Mouse right now, and it’s OK, but it can be rather annoying because just the slightest brush across it with any finger it causes unwanted scrolling or zooming, and it also just doesn’t feel very good in my hand.
I decided to try another mouse and ordered up a Logitech MX Master wireless mouse from Amazon.com. That mouse felt very good in my hand, and it had lots of buttons all over it, two scroll wheels (index finger and thumb) and software that let me program any button on it with dozens of functions in Mac OS, and make lots of adjustments. An excellent mouse, except that it felt light and cheesy, like a cheap toy, and the scroll wheel was loosely mounted and rattled, and the thumbwheel scrolling in InDesign CS6 documents was not smooth; it jerked and jumped to the right and left and was quite irritating.
I noticed in the Amazon comments section for buyers of the Logitech MX Master mouse that many people say that Logitech’s quality has gone south in recent years; the Chinese who make Logitech’s mice do so very sloppily, and aside from feeling cheap lots of people report that the mice break down after about six months of daily use--the cursor skips, the buttons lose function, etc. So, there’s a great mouse design with good software that’s badly made. I sent mine back.
A friend of mine who is a gamer suggested I get a Corsair gaming mouse and use it as a regular mouse, since they are reportedly of high quality, but in looking at their descriptions on Amazon, they seem to all be for Windows only, and even if they worked with a Mac there’s surely no software to program the buttons in Mac OS.
So, I’m back to using the old Magic Mouse again, but am still interested in finding a high-quality, durable mouse (wired or wireless, I don’t care) with a scroll wheel or wheels that will let me scroll in all directions in Indesign or Photoshop, and can give me better control than I can get with the Magic Mouse.
Does any such mouse exist? Does anybody have any suggestions for a good Mac-compatible mouse?
Tom
I decided to try another mouse and ordered up a Logitech MX Master wireless mouse from Amazon.com. That mouse felt very good in my hand, and it had lots of buttons all over it, two scroll wheels (index finger and thumb) and software that let me program any button on it with dozens of functions in Mac OS, and make lots of adjustments. An excellent mouse, except that it felt light and cheesy, like a cheap toy, and the scroll wheel was loosely mounted and rattled, and the thumbwheel scrolling in InDesign CS6 documents was not smooth; it jerked and jumped to the right and left and was quite irritating.
I noticed in the Amazon comments section for buyers of the Logitech MX Master mouse that many people say that Logitech’s quality has gone south in recent years; the Chinese who make Logitech’s mice do so very sloppily, and aside from feeling cheap lots of people report that the mice break down after about six months of daily use--the cursor skips, the buttons lose function, etc. So, there’s a great mouse design with good software that’s badly made. I sent mine back.
A friend of mine who is a gamer suggested I get a Corsair gaming mouse and use it as a regular mouse, since they are reportedly of high quality, but in looking at their descriptions on Amazon, they seem to all be for Windows only, and even if they worked with a Mac there’s surely no software to program the buttons in Mac OS.
So, I’m back to using the old Magic Mouse again, but am still interested in finding a high-quality, durable mouse (wired or wireless, I don’t care) with a scroll wheel or wheels that will let me scroll in all directions in Indesign or Photoshop, and can give me better control than I can get with the Magic Mouse.
Does any such mouse exist? Does anybody have any suggestions for a good Mac-compatible mouse?
Tom
