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Get an iMac mouse off eBay then. They’re usb and still work fine with any computer. Edit: but there is one concern - they are not optical mice and use a ball.
by WWLink 3y ago
Get an iMac mouse off eBay then. They’re usb and still work fine with any computer.
Edit: but there is one concern - they are not optical mice and use a ball. So if they’re really young you might want something more like an apple pro mouse
- vel0city 3y agoThere's a few problems with the puck mouse. 1) They're all old and are of questionable state second hand. 2) They're all ball mice, as you mentioned there's issues with those over an optical mouse 3) They almost always have ridiculously short cables. They're designed to be used with the Apple USB keyboards which had the extra USB port on the side of the keyboard that they would plug into. Sure, some of these problems could just be overlooked or solved with accessories but in the end I'd rather just have something new which I know will work well and won't require me to get a USB extension cable or whatever. I'd really like something in a similar enough form factor but wireless and optical.
- WWLink 3y agoYou can buy a travel/laptop mouse and those can get pretty tiny, but they still have 2 buttons and a scroll wheel. I find using a single button mouse an interesting exercise - both windows and MacOS are usable without it, MacOS in particular you can still do ctrl+left click to get a right click. It sounds silly but when I use a mouse my left hand is still usually on the keyboard so it's not really a big deal. I haven't done it in years, but I didn't really feel like I missed having 2 buttons and a scroll wheel when I used a 'pro mouse' lol. Now, I could rant for a while about how awful the ergonomics of the magic mouse are!