I HATE APPLE

you know, i hadn't even thought about it, but i think i know why it hasn't gotten sticky on me lately: dry winter air, dry radiator heat. Now i predict that as soon as things get all sweaty again, the trackball will get all gummy again. :(

you know?

i'm going to start ever post with that from now on.

For the three months that it works, until it gums up and stops tracking down, and is impossible to clean with breaking the mouse into bits.

I've had a wireless Mighty Mouse since day one, and this method for cleaning it has been 100% effective every single time.

what exactly does the mighty mouse do?!?!?

I have a wired MM or two, and I have had no problems with gumming or clicking. One reason I use it rather than one of the approximately 30 mice and trackballs I have is that it accelerates correctly on the Mac. 3rd party mice often have huge problems with this issue.

At work, I use this:

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3628/imageuploadimagehx1.jpg

because it's the most ergo pointing device I have ever tried.

It has like a right click and a left click but it's all invisible?

It also has middle click.

The clicks are triggered by body odor.

tom:

http://images.appleinsider.com/images/mightymouse4r.jpg

Apple will tell you that it is a 7 button mouse. I have found this claim to be somewhat tenuous.

The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse, which is a pain. The side buttons are too hard to squeeze.

Elvis: I tried that method for cleaning mine, but it only seems to fix it for an hour or two, then I have to do it again and invariably end up killing the thing.

you know what I do with the mighty mouse? I make it just a one button mouse and control-click on things for contextual menus/right-click features. I've been doing that for years, no need to re-learn.

at home I use the Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball. Used to use the Orbit as well.

The right click only works if you take your left finger entirely off the mouse

NO DEAL

i disabled all the functions on my Mighty Mouse except the trackball.

you may as well. Yeah, I hold-click for system stuff, too, but I still attempt the tricky moves involved in rt-clicking when i'm using photoshop, etc.

has apple made a mouse that doesn't suck? in my limited experience with the hockey puck and the pro mouse they were pretty awful.

the microswitched versions of this lasted forever:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg/800px-Apple-ADB-mouse.jpg

woah huge

oh yeah, i do remember using that kind in school. they were pretty good.

If Logitech ever stops making their basic trackball, I'm fucked.

should i pull the trigger on this? it's the recently discontinued model w/o the multi-touch trackpad. i'm not sure about the glossy screen ...

15" MBP
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB
200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm
glossy / LED

$1249

No

y not

because you could buy this instead?

http://www.psystar.com/index.php?&page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage_images.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=3&manufacturer_id=4&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=72

which is no doubt lol illegal

i like the mighty mouse :) apart from its ability to eat batteries :(

I hate Mighty Mouse :(

i like the mighty mouse :) apart from its ability to eat batteries :(

Get rechargeables

my mum stole them all for her 'back massager'

should i pull the trigger on this? it's the recently discontinued model w/o the multi-touch trackpad. i'm not sure about the glossy screen ...

15" MBP
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo / 2 GB / w/ 256 vram
200 GB HD @ 7200 rpm
glossy / LED

$1599

or i could get a matte screen for $1649

matte's the way uh huh uh huh i like it but fuck glossy DOES look pretty nice. i noticed this using my friend's computer the other day.

and unless you're doing colour-intensive design/photo stuff the saturation won't get in your way.

i am doing very stuff: word processing, making very simple webpages, keynote, playing w/ photos, blogging, emailing, etc

please advice

I find glossy to be mildly annoying.

I haven't checked, but is it easier to wipe stuff off glossy? I'm good at setting down drinks and getting droplets on the screen, sneezing in the vicinity, leaving it open and getting dust all over. Matte wipes off fine but I'm always worried about pushing too hard and wrecking the thing.

Yes, glossy is much more resistant to that kind of thing. If you use any kind of solvent -- e.g., Windex -- you can damage the screen. With glossy, you are a bit less limited.

what about price vs specs? are those "deals"?

my powerbook g4 is sort of on it's last legs, mechanically and performance-wise. i'm definitely going to upgrade in the next year. these prices are student-only specials through the computer dept at my school and they're much better than the educational pricing i'll be able to get next year as a teacher.

are these prices too good to pass up or are they just pushing outmoded stuff that's not worth the savings?

i mean it *seems* like a good deal, right? a good $200 cheaper than apple store prices for refurbished laptops ...

looks pretty awesome but then everything looks pretty awesome to me, given what i'm using now

it's nice that you won't need to buy more RAM for it (unless you want to)

i'm amazed they can make 7200rpm laptop drives, tbh - i'm amazed at everything, though, so i'm a biased observer

hmm well they sold out of the two models upthread already but they've still got this available

15" glossy LED
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB / 160 GB HD @ 7200 rpm
$1749

I find glossy to be mildly annoying.

Hi dere, thank you. I used to find it mildly annoying that everyone had (has) an LCD monitor, so designing for the screen had to become a much less subtle affair color-wise. Like, #eee is not a useful color anymore, thanks to those monitors, and the very poor color-handling of Windows XP. It's frickin' green.

At least, it is if you don't calibrate your monitor, but web design obviously also means designing for the folx who will never do such things. My Dad, I was appalled to find, had not even aligned his screen since he bought it... he had a black bar down one side and chopped-off icons on the other. The fix for this? Pressing a single button, right on the front of the monitor. My dad is not a dumb guy, he's just not... how do you say... saavy. I'm certain he's used carbon paper recently. He's, um, old. I wish I didn't have to keep him in mind when I design anything, because it would be so much easier, but I do. I digress.

Anyway, yeah... the glossy screens aren't *bad*, not at all. I've found Mac screens to consistently have the most satisfying color, if not the truest. They figured out this much: people like blue. And calibrated likewise. But for what it's worth (nothing, btw), I do resent that there's one more thin layer between the intended color and the end user.

And as long as the ol' girl lives, I'll still always check everything on my 95-pound (you probably think I'm kidding) Philips CRT 21" monitor from a bygone age, because it is the last monitor that I may ever see render color correctly.

Different Gamma for Mac and windows, innit. I hate adjusting my photos on the mac and finding that they don't look nearly as rich in Windows, yes I could switch my Mac into washed out windows mode but I don't want to.

windows gamma used to be much darker - did that change at some point?

render color correctly

I get what you're saying, but this last bit is pretty meaningless.

for web design maybe, but not meaningless for print

Not what I was getting at. There is no absolute measure of the human perception of colour. You can do what you like to calibrate every device in the chain (paper, ink, screen, ambient lighting conditions), but you're never going to be able to define "correct" because everyone's eyes are different.

Is there any absolute measure of the human perception of anything?

folks, just wanted to chime in that i have changed my mind. safari blows & i hate apple.