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Wedge or Teardrop?
I wonder if anyone has ever removed the cable from a puck mouse and used it as an actual hockey puck? My parents use one on the iMac, mainly because that's the original mouse that came with it.
Probably my favourite Apple mouse out of all of them is the "brick", mentioned earlier. I've got one for my Mac Plus and I like the "squashy" click of the button.
Probably my favourite Apple mouse out of all of them is the "brick", mentioned earlier. I've got one for my Mac Plus and I like the "squashy" click of the button.
Hehe, if I ever come across a non working puck mouse, I'll do that. I just can't destroy working Apple hardware.
Or you could tie two of them together and create a bolo.
Puck-Chucks.
I would if it hadn't succumbed (along with the keyboard) to a large coffee spill. I'm probably the only adult I know who actually prefers the puck (and I have fairly big hands).
i love useing the teardrop, for one its comfortable on the hand. but the drawback is that the button is exposed more than the wedge design mouse you will get a few click's off and not release you have your finger close to the button or you hit the side of the mouse against something and what ever you hit will click it.
i don't like the wedge mouse cause after awhile it starts to hurt your hand but the good pint is is that the button is in a great place and isnt as easy to trigger a click cause of a finger with a mind of its own or by bumping it into something or by picking it up.
but i would rather use the tear drop design cause like i said its easier on the hand
i don't like the wedge mouse cause after awhile it starts to hurt your hand but the good pint is is that the button is in a great place and isnt as easy to trigger a click cause of a finger with a mind of its own or by bumping it into something or by picking it up.
but i would rather use the tear drop design cause like i said its easier on the hand
Awesome, I was in a print centre yesterday and they had a big copier/printer that had a screen that looked like a Xerox star, with one of those star mice. Looked like a fairly new machine despite that, though. ;D
I now prefer the teardrop for the exterior feel/comfort factor; it fits the hand better than the wedge, I think. When I can, though, I change the switch in either for a cheaper switch from a PC mouse - quieter, easier clicks. The Plus' brick mouse always irked me - it usually squeaks, and you have to press so much harder than with later mice. Or that's the impression.
Mouse peeves:
- rollers so encrusted with crud (skin-dust, pore-grease, cat hairs, etc.) that you feel like you're passing your hand over a stuccoed surface when you sweep the mouse from side-to-side;
- eleventeen-button mouses; and,
- glide-shmutz, the layer of the (presumably) same crud as found on rollers that, in this instance, causes the mouse to sweep so sluggishly it's an effort to move it at all.
The scroll-wheel is highly over-rated. In fact, everything beyond a single button is over-rated.
I'm currently using a Kensington ADB TurboMouse trackball (no right-click) and an indented puck mouse on my Beige tower (still with it!). Somewhere on the desk in front of me, beneath several geological strata of miscellaneous cables, papers, and bits and pieces of everything, I have a scroll-wheel USB Mouse-in-a-Box (trash-picked, but known to work, and not much missed), and a swoopy-n-swishy Logitech scroll-wheel dingus with that strange little button under your right thumb... I'd installed the software for the latter, but got bored with it...
I've recently pulled the trackball from a wrecked PB1x0 and have briefly tested it as an ADB device. Worked fine until one or two of my hastily-soldered connections on the underside of the board gave out. Current plan is to solder a section of ADB cable to a ribbon cable which will, in turn, be properly inserted into the little socket on the upper side of the circuit board... Then there's the matter of making the section of the PB's wrist-wrest flow gracefully down to the surface of the desk (probably by kerfing the underside somehow, and notching the forward/near face so that I can bend things to my will)...
Projects. Too many projects.
Mouse peeves:
- rollers so encrusted with crud (skin-dust, pore-grease, cat hairs, etc.) that you feel like you're passing your hand over a stuccoed surface when you sweep the mouse from side-to-side;
- eleventeen-button mouses; and,
- glide-shmutz, the layer of the (presumably) same crud as found on rollers that, in this instance, causes the mouse to sweep so sluggishly it's an effort to move it at all.
The scroll-wheel is highly over-rated. In fact, everything beyond a single button is over-rated.
I'm currently using a Kensington ADB TurboMouse trackball (no right-click) and an indented puck mouse on my Beige tower (still with it!). Somewhere on the desk in front of me, beneath several geological strata of miscellaneous cables, papers, and bits and pieces of everything, I have a scroll-wheel USB Mouse-in-a-Box (trash-picked, but known to work, and not much missed), and a swoopy-n-swishy Logitech scroll-wheel dingus with that strange little button under your right thumb... I'd installed the software for the latter, but got bored with it...
I've recently pulled the trackball from a wrecked PB1x0 and have briefly tested it as an ADB device. Worked fine until one or two of my hastily-soldered connections on the underside of the board gave out. Current plan is to solder a section of ADB cable to a ribbon cable which will, in turn, be properly inserted into the little socket on the upper side of the circuit board... Then there's the matter of making the section of the PB's wrist-wrest flow gracefully down to the surface of the desk (probably by kerfing the underside somehow, and notching the forward/near face so that I can bend things to my will)...
Projects. Too many projects.
I prefer the wedge.
It is so unique!
It is so unique!
i dispise the puck mouse
cant stand the stroppy movement of the wedge so it would be the teardrop for me
cant stand the stroppy movement of the wedge so it would be the teardrop for me
When the puck was new, there were many modifications for it that would allow it to become a "normal" mouse. These were usually little covers that would slip over the mouse itself to make it similar to a generic PC mouse in shape.
I've only had problems with one puck. It was at the Goodwill Computer Works center I work at and I am going to make a safe bet this one came from a middle school. Not only did it not track well at all, the purple part of it was covered in that glitter makeup that all the 13-14 year old girls seem to wear.
I've had only a few other mouse problems in my life. I've had a ProMouse short on me and had a Compaq mouse stop tracking well--probably because its former owner was a Solitare addict. Well, there were the dozens of missing balls I've seen, but that happens in a school.
I've only had problems with one puck. It was at the Goodwill Computer Works center I work at and I am going to make a safe bet this one came from a middle school. Not only did it not track well at all, the purple part of it was covered in that glitter makeup that all the 13-14 year old girls seem to wear.
I've had only a few other mouse problems in my life. I've had a ProMouse short on me and had a Compaq mouse stop tracking well--probably because its former owner was a Solitare addict. Well, there were the dozens of missing balls I've seen, but that happens in a school.
Send 'em to me, I actually like the hockey pucks. I have no idea why but they feel great to me.
Anything with more than one button is always welcome *ducks behind a rock*
It's the wedge for me everytime, plus tweezers for the fluff and a damp cloth for the cleaning ball.
Hey I was just kidding - the Teardrop mouse fitted my hand the best of all Apple mice because it was broad at the back and relatively long. I've never really liked any Apple mice but that one is the one I hate least.