Apple Two Button Mouse - Vote Please!!!

[hulkaros]

Originally posted by MDLarson
Hulkuros, from what I've seen, you are a true Mac zealot. It's very annoying sometimes...

It is Hulkaros!



Anyways, I will repeat:
"Were you arguing with me or I got the wrong feeling? I wasn't arguing with ANYONE for single VS multibutton mice! I just pointed some things about the multibutton mice... If they are facts or not, good or bad, stupid or smart, this or that, anyone can have their cake and eat it too on this matter!"

[Arden]

That's Hulk for you, a big dumb Mac-loving brute.

I can see some of what he's is saying... my iMac mouse is a Starlogic 8D, and instead of a wheel it has a mini-trackball, which is very sensitive to motion. I often find myself scrolling past something because there are no definitive clicks to tell you that you've just scrolled a single block of lines. But I love the mouse nonetheless; Middle-Right click, and it turns into a trackball, with the optical sensor affecting scrolling!

However, take all the advantages of Apple mice that Hulk described, and apply them to a multibutton mouse, and Apple will have it made. (This computer, the G3, has an ancient optical Mouse Systems 3-button mouse that needs a special reflective mousepad to function, and we've had it longer than this computer!)

[ApeintheShell]

I have the two button mouse with a scroll wheel and an old one button apple pro mouse.
To be honest, i can't tell the difference between which does what.

But one complaint I have about multi button mice is my hands hurt. Moving the scroll wheel slowly to get down the page, left clicking and so on.

Ease of use. If your hand is comfortable and it takes one click to finish the task. I'm all for the one button mice.

Remember that one button in the middle of the keyboard on pc laptops? Yeah. It sucks.

[Arden]

That was actually a little nubbin that controlled the cursor, still a pain in the ass to use.

[mr. k]

I've been using a cheap two button scrollwheel mouse at school, and although control-clicking is jut as convenient as right clicking, having a scroll wheel is very nice for skimming down long documents, web pages and the like. I think if apple made a more advanced mouse though, it would blow most PC mice out of the water, and would be really awesome.
I think that there should be a mouse quite similar to any current apple mouse, but with just sensors that can tell if you are clicking on the right side or the left, and then if you draw your finger down the middle of the mouse it should register a scroll... That would own.

[Mat]

Apple should keep doing what they want. If you want a wickid mouse get a Macally mouse. I've got their micro-mouse with 2 buttons and scroll and it's about the size of a matchbox car.

[genghiscohen]

Originally posted by pds
One button is nice, two are nicer, two plus a wheel is nicer. Seems you can take your pick. If you like the style, Kennsington has it, if you like the cheap price, macally has it... it's called choice.

Amen to that! I use a Kensington Mouse-in-the-Box Optical Pro, with 5 buttons (counting the clickable scroll wheel). With Kensington's MouseWorks driver, I can also set up chording - clicking two buttons at once for yet more commands.
I can do so many things with my mouse! When I use my wife's machine with the Apple one-button wonder, I quickly get very frustrated.
IMO, Apple needs to offer at least 2-button mice in order to win over more switchers. Either that or put great big stickers on all their machines that say, "Hey, you can use a 3rd-party mouse with this if you want to."

[Arden]

Originally posted by genghiscohen
Either that or put great big stickers on all their machines that say, "Hey, you can use a 3rd-party mouse with this if you want to."

Heh, that would be really funny.