"Mighty Mouse" with MacBook Sucks. Any Recommendatins?
I've been a Mac user for about a year and half now. I've used a Logitech bluetooth "Travel Mouse" with my MacBooks, though the results have always been less that totally satisfactory. The cursor has always had a tendency to "drift" on the screen. The effect seems even less tolerable with my new aluminum 13" MacBook than it was with my prior "black" MacBook.
So Thursday I went to the Apple store and got one of Apple's wireless "Might Mouse" devices. And while the pointing is dead on -- there's no "drift" -- the absence of an actual second click button is positively infuriating.
I guess this design relies on some subtlety of touch to determine when the user intends for his click on the right side of the single "button" to be a left- or a right- click. In my case, it seems to work about 1/3rd of the time. Which is to say, one out of three times that I try to press on the right side of the mouse, I will get the effect I'm actually trying to get, i.e. an actual "right click." The other two times, it's treated like a left click.
The trade off -- accurate pointing for a nearly useless right-click function -- is not worth the trouble. This one is going back to the store. As far as design goes, Mr. Jobs' reluctance to incorporate an actual second mouse button in any of his company's designs demonstrates stubbornness of "epic fail" proportions.
Which leave me wondering... what is a decent brand of Bluetooth mouse to use with a MacBook? When I spoke to somebody at the Apple store, he said that there are "issues" with Logitech Bluetooth products, which I can attest to from my own experience. So, is there any brand of mouse that a) works reliably with the MacBook and b) has TWO buttons instead of one button and one pretend button?
And, ohbytheway, I'm a lefty, so mice designed for right handed people don't work for me either. Unfortunately that narrows the universe of workable products considerably.
Does anybody have a Bluetooth Mouse that works well with their MacBook?
Thanks,
--PS
So Thursday I went to the Apple store and got one of Apple's wireless "Might Mouse" devices. And while the pointing is dead on -- there's no "drift" -- the absence of an actual second click button is positively infuriating.
I guess this design relies on some subtlety of touch to determine when the user intends for his click on the right side of the single "button" to be a left- or a right- click. In my case, it seems to work about 1/3rd of the time. Which is to say, one out of three times that I try to press on the right side of the mouse, I will get the effect I'm actually trying to get, i.e. an actual "right click." The other two times, it's treated like a left click.
The trade off -- accurate pointing for a nearly useless right-click function -- is not worth the trouble. This one is going back to the store. As far as design goes, Mr. Jobs' reluctance to incorporate an actual second mouse button in any of his company's designs demonstrates stubbornness of "epic fail" proportions.
Which leave me wondering... what is a decent brand of Bluetooth mouse to use with a MacBook? When I spoke to somebody at the Apple store, he said that there are "issues" with Logitech Bluetooth products, which I can attest to from my own experience. So, is there any brand of mouse that a) works reliably with the MacBook and b) has TWO buttons instead of one button and one pretend button?
And, ohbytheway, I'm a lefty, so mice designed for right handed people don't work for me either. Unfortunately that narrows the universe of workable products considerably.
Does anybody have a Bluetooth Mouse that works well with their MacBook?
Thanks,
--PS
MacBook 2.4GHz; MacPro 2x3.0GHz Dual Core; iPods, iPhones, Apple TV, Mac OS X (10.5), After 28 years of DOS and Windows... I've come into the light...