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Maybe I'm weird here, but I think the Magic Mouse is really great and comfortable to use.

by nsxwolf 12y ago

zaphoyd 12y ago
I love my magic mouse as well. I wish they made a corded one though, or made bluetooth stuff more reliable.
- nsxwolf 12y ago
  One silly thing in OS X is that if you have only a wireless keyboard and mouse, and accidentally turn off Bluetooth, it is really difficult to figure out what to do next. The usual advice is "attach a wired mouse and keyboard and turn it back on", but if you don't have one, lots of luck. You can actually recover from this with a full power down and restart, OS X tries to detect this condition and turn Bluetooth back on. But sometimes it doesn't work and requires a PRAM reset.
chiph 12y ago
The Magic Mouse is indeed the best mouse they've built to-date. But I'll still take an original Microsoft Intellimouse Optical because it fits my hand better and has a good weight & glide to it. Apple should design their mice & keyboards around the human form first, with cool design secondary to that.
sjwright 12y ago
A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about mice and it occurred to me that I hadn't given the Magic Mouse a fair go. So I went out and bought one full price. Switching from the DeathAdder 2013 I immediately noticed a few differences: * Friction of movement was higher and "stickier" regardless of surface. * Grip was less comfortable because I had to push my fingers against the top edge. * Cursor motion was noticeably lagged and jerky. Admittedly this is going from a corded gaming mouse to a bluetooth mouse, but I don't care. I didn't want cordless anyway. My only problem with the DeathAdder is that the Mac drivers are horrifically bad and the third party alternatives (SteerMouse etc) aren't much better. I've found that I can configure some settings on a Windows box which configure firmware in the mouse itself (mostly DPI modes and disabling the lights). Get these settings right and it works pretty well plugged into a Mac with no third party mouse software.

Maybe I'm weird here, but I think the Magic Mouse is really great and comfortable to use.

by nsxwolf 12y ago

Maybe I'm weird here, but I think the Magic Mouse is really great and comfortable to use.

zaphoyd 12y ago

I love my magic mouse as well. I wish they made a corded one though, or made bluetooth stuff more reliable.

nsxwolf 12y ago
One silly thing in OS X is that if you have only a wireless keyboard and mouse, and accidentally turn off Bluetooth, it is really difficult to figure out what to do next. The usual advice is "attach a wired mouse and keyboard and turn it back on", but if you don't have one, lots of luck. You can actually recover from this with a full power down and restart, OS X tries to detect this condition and turn Bluetooth back on. But sometimes it doesn't work and requires a PRAM reset.

chiph 12y ago

The Magic Mouse is indeed the best mouse they've built to-date. But I'll still take an original Microsoft Intellimouse Optical because it fits my hand better and has a good weight & glide to it. Apple should design their mice & keyboards around the human form first, with cool design secondary to that.

sjwright 12y ago

A couple of weeks ago I was thinking about mice and it occurred to me that I hadn't given the Magic Mouse a fair go. So I went out and bought one full price. Switching from the DeathAdder 2013 I immediately noticed a few differences: * Friction of movement was higher and "stickier" regardless of surface. * Grip was less comfortable because I had to push my fingers against the top edge. * Cursor motion was noticeably lagged and jerky. Admittedly this is going from a corded gaming mouse to a bluetooth mouse, but I don't care. I didn't want cordless anyway. My only problem with the DeathAdder is that the Mac drivers are horrifically bad and the third party alternatives (SteerMouse etc) aren't much better. I've found that I can configure some settings on a Windows box which configure firmware in the mouse itself (mostly DPI modes and disabling the lights). Get these settings right and it works pretty well plugged into a Mac with no third party mouse software.