Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Newsgroups: uk.comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mouse Date: 10 Aug 2020 13:29:00 GMT Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <090820201730562082%nospam@nospam.invalid> <100820200804019851%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net LEgGND0Z3zAFiago2aEFLQjXQz0Iuyba5zE0szzcBtm1AJdexX Cancel-Lock: sha1:8opq1P3Nc4+VMo4FvXYDDFvFFqU= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: Usenapp/0.79/l beta for MacOS Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:146171 On 10 Aug 2020 at 13:04:01 BST, nospam wrote: > In article , Tim > wrote: > >>>>>> What do people use for a basic mouse? >>>>> >>>>> trackpad. >>>> >>>> You could have deduced from my OP that I don't want one of those. >>> >>> you asked what people use. >> >> I asked what people use "for a basic mouse". A mouse is not a trackpad. > > trackpads, trackballs and mice are interchangeable devices which do > exactly the same function. Then Apple should treat 'em the same way. > apple's magic mouse is a hybrid, where the surface is a mini-trackpad > for gesture support. Have this gesture, Apple. >>>>>> Is there a basic mouse with a scroll-ball? >>>>> >>>>> the apple pea-mouse, but it was *awful*. >>>> >>>> No it wasn't. It had one design defect, namely that you had to crack it open >>>> to clean the pea, which after 9 months or so stopped working due to grot. >>> >>> more like 9 days. it was horrible. >> >> 9 days in your case, perhaps. > > it needed cleaning far more often than 9 months and the pea was > physically too small to be useful. it was junk. The pea is just the right size for what it's needed for, and can be rotated several times without moving the finger very far. -- Tim