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Post Your Mac Setup: Past & Present (Part 6)
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I love the wireless Mighty Mouse. It is the best mouse I have ever used. I am a trackball person but I have yet to find a Bluetooth one I like.
To mixmacface: Thank you! It was definitely one of my best purchases.
its great when it works!
(just received 4th replacement due to no down scroll) its just nice that apple's returns are awesome in that they are free and they send you a replacement before you give your old one back so its not really much of a hassle, 10 minute phone call every 2-3 months
I have had mine since October and I've had no problems. Maybe I got the only good one.
I really don't like Mighty Mouse because it's a device which is really gimmicky. Apple could easily have made a mouse which worked much better, but they instead opted to go down the route of trying to make it look like it doesn't have two buttons.
So now, instead of being able to right click when you want you have to lift your fingers off the mouse completely or it gets confused when you press down on a different side. In fact, if you're resting your fingers anywhere on the front area of the mouse when you click on either side it will get confused. Same goes for the scroll ball, if you have a finger on there when you left click then it will think you want to middle click. It's infuriating and I'm not about to try to learn to lift all my fingers when I want to click.
The ball itself gets clogged up very quickly and you have to clean it. It has a horrible shape which makes it feel very inaccurate for pointing (my analogy is that it's like trying to use a normal mouse but with several pairs of mittens on).
There's this, and the fact the wireless version is £49.99. I could get five mice for this price which are infinitely better than Mighty Mouse.
I just feel extremely uncomfortable using it. If Logitech or Trust had launched this mouse then you can bet that it would have been canned a long time ago due to lack of sales because of its poor quality. As it stands, it's only still around because it has Apple's name on it and because people either don't realise that their Mac will work with any USB mouse or because their fanboy spirit prevents them from buying from another manufacturer, even if that company is doing a better job of making mice.
I hope Apple make a new mouse soon and assign the person responsible for the excellent aluminium keyboards to the project.
So now, instead of being able to right click when you want you have to lift your fingers off the mouse completely or it gets confused when you press down on a different side. In fact, if you're resting your fingers anywhere on the front area of the mouse when you click on either side it will get confused. Same goes for the scroll ball, if you have a finger on there when you left click then it will think you want to middle click. It's infuriating and I'm not about to try to learn to lift all my fingers when I want to click.
The ball itself gets clogged up very quickly and you have to clean it. It has a horrible shape which makes it feel very inaccurate for pointing (my analogy is that it's like trying to use a normal mouse but with several pairs of mittens on).
There's this, and the fact the wireless version is £49.99. I could get five mice for this price which are infinitely better than Mighty Mouse.
I just feel extremely uncomfortable using it. If Logitech or Trust had launched this mouse then you can bet that it would have been canned a long time ago due to lack of sales because of its poor quality. As it stands, it's only still around because it has Apple's name on it and because people either don't realise that their Mac will work with any USB mouse or because their fanboy spirit prevents them from buying from another manufacturer, even if that company is doing a better job of making mice.
I hope Apple make a new mouse soon and assign the person responsible for the excellent aluminium keyboards to the project.
That'd be our good friend Johnny Ive.
You might be surprised that he was also responsible for the Mighty Mouse.
I guess it must have been a bad day
I posted this back in the other thread, but here it is anyway. I go back and forth between using the external monitor or just the MBP:
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Nick which programs are you using the extra screen real estate for? I found when I had my MBP, spaces worked wonderfully.
I have my primary apps (usually only 2 or 3) in the main display, and then separate apps such as Twitteriffic, Adium, Skype, etc. in the secondary display.
Also, if I'm ever working, I'll often set a movie playing in my secondary display and let it run on the side to help lower my boredom level.
I was using Spaces, and it worked fine, but I really like being able to have everything laid out in front of me 24/7 and I definitely think I'll continue to use dual displays for a while.
Also, if I'm ever working, I'll often set a movie playing in my secondary display and let it run on the side to help lower my boredom level.
I was using Spaces, and it worked fine, but I really like being able to have everything laid out in front of me 24/7 and I definitely think I'll continue to use dual displays for a while.
One question, did you ever think, maybe only for a few seconds, that just because YOU don't like it that doesn't mean it's GENERALLY crap?
Here's a few more shots (click for larger):
For those asking "what do you do", see page 1 of this thread.
Do you have any recommendations for gigabit ethernet switches with an ADSL modem built-in at all? I preferably like one that can do the thing were you plug two ethernet leads in from the the same computer and it combines the connects into one super fast link.
No idea where to start with switches I don't know much about that side of things.
What you're talking about is 'link aggregation' or 'trunking'. Such a switch runs minimally around $800 in the US for a cheap one (NetGear) or ~$2,000 for Cisco, ~$6,000 for Nortel, etc. You won't find one with a modem built-in. If the goal is to get faster speeds from your DSL connection, I'm afraid that's not going to happen. I don't know what state of the art DSL speeds are in the UK, but even FiOS here is slower than GigE.
Hope this helps.
Uhh...I would say so. Do you also get off by watching someone plug in a USB flash drive?
thanks theres about 3 other mac pros in the room along with tons of beta decks and what not but its not mine but i sure as heck use it
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