that tiny 360-degree trackball. It's just perfect. For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.
― stet, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
+out
you know, i've heard that, but mine went backwards somehow. It gummed up a lot when I first got it, and i nearly tossed the thing. But for months now it has worked perfectly. Shrug.
― kenan, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm on Mighty Mouse #2; love the customizability. My natural click-gesture is with the middle finger on the right side of the mouse, so it's nice to be able to make right side primary and left side CTRL-click side.
The scroll ball tendency to get gummed up pisses me off, and they'll really have a winner on their hands when they figure out how to make it user-cleanable or more dirtproof.
xposts
― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
you know, i hadn't even thought about it, but i think i know why it hasn't gotten sticky on me lately: dry winter air, dry radiator heat. Now i predict that as soon as things get all sweaty again, the trackball will get all gummy again. :(
― kenan, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
you know?
i'm going to start ever post with that from now on.
― kenan, Thursday, 10 April 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.
I've had a wireless Mighty Mouse since day one, and this method for cleaning it has been 100% effective every single time.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
what exactly does the mighty mouse do?!?!?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a wired MM or two, and I have had no problems with gumming or clicking. One reason I use it rather than one of the approximately 30 mice and trackballs I have is that it accelerates correctly on the Mac. 3rd party mice often have huge problems with this issue.
At work, I use this:
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3628/imageuploadimagehx1.jpg
because it's the most ergo pointing device I have ever tried.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
It has like a right click and a left click but it's all invisible?
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
It also has middle click.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The clicks are triggered by body odor.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
tom:
http://images.appleinsider.com/images/mightymouse4r.jpg
Apple will tell you that it is a 7 button mouse. I have found this claim to be somewhat tenuous.
― kenan, Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse, which is a pain. The side buttons are too hard to squeeze.
Elvis: I tried that method for cleaning mine, but it only seems to fix it for an hour or two, then I have to do it again and invariably end up killing the thing.
― stet, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
you know what I do with the mighty mouse? I make it just a one button mouse and control-click on things for contextual menus/right-click features. I've been doing that for years, no need to re-learn.
at home I use the Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball. Used to use the Orbit as well.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse
NO DEAL
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i disabled all the functions on my Mighty Mouse except the trackball.
― jed_, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
you may as well. Yeah, I hold-click for system stuff, too, but I still attempt the tricky moves involved in rt-clicking when i'm using photoshop, etc.
― kenan, Thursday, 10 April 2008 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
has apple made a mouse that doesn't suck? in my limited experience with the hockey puck and the pro mouse they were pretty awful.
― circles, Friday, 11 April 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
the microswitched versions of this lasted forever: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg/800px-Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg
― stet, Friday, 11 April 2008 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
woah huge
― stet, Friday, 11 April 2008 02:01 (sixteen years ago) link
oh yeah, i do remember using that kind in school. they were pretty good.
― circles, Friday, 11 April 2008 02:12 (sixteen years ago) link
If Logitech ever stops making their basic trackball, I'm fucked.
― milo z, Friday, 11 April 2008 02:16 (sixteen years ago) link
should i pull the trigger on this? it's the recently discontinued model w/o the multi-touch trackpad. i'm not sure about the glossy screen ...
15" MBP 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB 200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm glossy / LED
$1249
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 06:14 (sixteen years ago) link
No
― El Tomboto, Monday, 14 April 2008 06:45 (sixteen years ago) link
y not
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
because you could buy this instead?
http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72
― czn, Monday, 14 April 2008 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link
which is no doubt lol illegal
― czn, Monday, 14 April 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i like the mighty mouse :) apart from its ability to eat batteries :(
― DG, Monday, 14 April 2008 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate Mighty Mouse :(
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 14 April 2008 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Get rechargeables
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
my mum stole them all for her 'back massager'
― DG, Monday, 14 April 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
15" MBP 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB / w/ 256 vram 200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm glossy / LED
$1599
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
or i could get a matte screen for $1649
matte's the way uh huh uh huh i like it but fuck glossy DOES look pretty nice. i noticed this using my friend's computer the other day.
― s1ocki, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
and unless you're doing colour-intensive design/photo stuff the saturation won't get in your way.
i am doing very stuff: word processing, making very simple webpages, keynote, playing w/ photos, blogging, emailing, etc
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
please advice
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I find glossy to be mildly annoying.
― libcrypt, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't checked, but is it easier to wipe stuff off glossy? I'm good at setting down drinks and getting droplets on the screen, sneezing in the vicinity, leaving it open and getting dust all over. Matte wipes off fine but I'm always worried about pushing too hard and wrecking the thing.
― mh, Monday, 14 April 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, glossy is much more resistant to that kind of thing. If you use any kind of solvent -- e.g., Windex -- you can damage the screen. With glossy, you are a bit less limited.
― libcrypt, Monday, 14 April 2008 19:06 (sixteen years ago) link
what about price vs specs? are those "deals"?
my powerbook g4 is sort of on it's last legs, mechanically and performance-wise. i'm definitely going to upgrade in the next year. these prices are student-only specials through the computer dept at my school and they're much better than the educational pricing i'll be able to get next year as a teacher.
are these prices too good to pass up or are they just pushing outmoded stuff that's not worth the savings?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean it *seems* like a good deal, right? a good $200 cheaper than apple store prices for refurbished laptops ...
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
looks pretty awesome but then everything looks pretty awesome to me, given what i'm using now
it's nice that you won't need to buy more RAM for it (unless you want to)
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm amazed they can make 7200rpm laptop drives, tbh - i'm amazed at everything, though, so i'm a biased observer
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 April 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm well they sold out of the two models upthread already but they've still got this available
15" glossy LED 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB / 160 GB HD @ 7200 rpm $1749
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi dere, thank you. I used to find it mildly annoying that everyone had (has) an LCD monitor, so designing for the screen had to become a much less subtle affair color-wise. Like, #eee is not a useful color anymore, thanks to those monitors, and the very poor color-handling of Windows XP. It's frickin' green.
At least, it is if you don't calibrate your monitor, but web design obviously also means designing for the folx who will never do such things. My Dad, I was appalled to find, had not even aligned his screen since he bought it... he had a black bar down one side and chopped-off icons on the other. The fix for this? Pressing a single button, right on the front of the monitor. My dad is not a dumb guy, he's just not... how do you say... saavy. I'm certain he's used carbon paper recently. He's, um, old. I wish I didn't have to keep him in mind when I design anything, because it would be so much easier, but I do. I digress.
Anyway, yeah... the glossy screens aren't *bad*, not at all. I've found Mac screens to consistently have the most satisfying color, if not the truest. They figured out this much: people like blue. And calibrated likewise. But for what it's worth (nothing, btw), I do resent that there's one more thin layer between the intended color and the end user.
And as long as the ol' girl lives, I'll still always check everything on my 95-pound (you probably think I'm kidding) Philips CRT 21" monitor from a bygone age, because it is the last monitor that I may ever see render color correctly.
― kenan, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 08:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Different Gamma for Mac and windows, innit. I hate adjusting my photos on the mac and finding that they don't look nearly as rich in Windows, yes I could switch my Mac into washed out windows mode but I don't want to.
― Ed, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 08:49 (sixteen years ago) link
windows gamma used to be much darker - did that change at some point?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 09:46 (sixteen years ago) link
render color correctly
I get what you're saying, but this last bit is pretty meaningless.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link