The Mighty Mouse is the worst mouse ever made.

OldCorpse said:
What I hate about almost all mice I've tried is how hard it is to scroll - you have to apply too much pressure, the wheels almost always have this obnoxious stepping action, instead of being smooth like butter.
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You might like the Logitech MX Revolution....I just figured out today that there are two scrolling modes- you switch by pressing down on the scroll wheel. One has the usual clicking stepping action as you describe and the other is completely free-gliding butter smooth. You can flick it and it keeps spinning for a good long time - more than 30 seconds. This takes you from the top of a long document to the bottom very quickly.

The scroll action is instantly responsive in both modes as far as I can tell so far. As soon as I move the scroll at all, I see the result on the screen.
 
DevonSloan said:
Corpse: try the Logitech MX or VX. This is what I've been talking about. You can set it to a completely free setting that is like a completely frictionless steel ball rolling forever. And like I mentioned above, with a simple flip of a switch, you can bring it back to click mode. But it is still a super high quality steel wheel, not a poopoo piece of plastic.
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Lol. Devon we said almost exactly the same thing - at the same time. Awesome. And yeah, I finally figured out the scroll setting you were talking about - on accident, about fifteen minutes ago...It's amazing. :)
 
MX518 FTW
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Oh yea and The new apple keyboard + Mighty mouse = Ergonomic hell.
 
That keyboard sure is pretty though. While it is a nightmare to type on (I check email in Apple stores occasionally) I have this great urge to buy one because of how pretty it is.
 
But is there anything else with a 2-D scroll ball? That's what I really miss. The "tilting" just doesn't do it for me...
 
I dont think so. And you will have that same problem with any mouse that has one. That ball is made out of the same material as mouse under-balls. And gooky under-balls is why they moved to optical mice. Leave it to Apple to be innovative by transplanting the gooky under-ball to the top.

Even when trackballs went to the fancier optical trackballs, the ball-rollers still gooked up.
 
I have seen these:

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but that would be such a switch after 15 years of a single wheel. I dont know if my hand would conform. My hand would probably just ignore the new wheel like it ignores my new buttons.
 
I've had mine since I got my g4 years ago. Works great. Although the mouse on my g5 is a Dell with a scroll wheel and it does FEEL better.
 
To anyone left defending the MM, just try playing a first-person shooter with it. ;)

I get them with my new Macs and I chuck them right into a drawer and replace them with whatever Logitech mouse I can get at Circuit City for <$20.
 
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