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A magic mouse…

So after a day of usage. I found only one flaw in the mouse. And two limitations.
As you might know, i’m on my computer a lot. For various things. I use the mouse a lot. One thing that still bothers me is the lack of proper right clicking.
This was awkward with the Mighty Mouse but it’s worse with the Magic Mouse. As i still use windows from time to time and am very fond of right-click-menus even in OS X i’ve enabled that option. However you can only use it when you kinda let go of the mouse and tap on the right side. With any ordinary mouse you can just leave your index finger on the left side and and right click with the middle finger. But with the multitouch of the Magic Mouse, something that was vaguely present in the Mighty Mouse, makes right clicking while touching the left side do other things. It’s annoying. So i have to lift my index finger and then right click. But be careful not to touch the sides of the mouse. Maybe it’s just getting used to, but with the Mighty Mouse i hated it and threw it aside after a few days.

The Limitations i found are it’s size and surface. It’s a bit too small for my hands. I have big hands. And am used to a handful of mouse. Like the Logitech MX518. Remember those? They are just fine. Now it’s like shoving around a swollen up touchpad. But that’s not so bad. It just takes a bit of getting used to.
The surface is plain plastic, shiny stuff. But when my hands are a bit sweaty the mouse is not so smooth for swiping stuff. I then have to grip the mouse to actually use the multitouch or you simply push the mouse away. But that’s a small hinderance from time to time.

Other than that it’s been a blast. If you’ve used the multi touch laptops from Apple. You know how it works. Swipe swoosh slide tap and something happens. The way you want it! It works very natural and easy. The scrolling is very neat. It works with some accelerometer that if you scroll faster or a larger distance you scroll faster and when you stop the scrolling slows down in a second or so. It’s great!

A huge fail is that the apparently new bluetooth module in the iMac has no driver for Windows. Am i weird to refuse using this iMac with Windows and a wired set? I hooked it up for the installation of course since Windows still is kinda dumb when it comes to installers. But when i got to the desktop i *have to* use the bluetooth. I bought Bluetooth so i want to use it. Period. At the moment this seems impossible so i shut down windows mid-action and didn’t do a thing with it since. I probably won’t until there is a Bluetooth driver.

I haz bluetooth mouse!

Yes, i found a decent one! After a 3 day search. The “kensington Si670m Bluetooth Wireless Notebook Mouse”. Ha! It’s a 1000dpi thing with a rubber grip. And it looks kinda spiffy.
All be it a small mouse… it’s nice. Responsive and no connection time. Woohoo.
No dongle, no hassle. It just works. Even Steermouse detects it so i can set it’s buttons. And it works really well. But like i said it’s a small mouse so it’s not all good… Look:

As you see, it barely fits my hand, if at all. But for “not-so-much” use it’s quite alright i guess…

i can haz blootooth mouze?

Why are they extinct? It’s so unfair! i don’t want a RF dongle on my precious laptop!!
Give me back my Logitech MX1000 Bluetooth!

GRRRR!

so yea… The damn thing finally broke last night. I tossed it of the table and wouldn’t lit it’s led or charge. That combined with the lousy charger which almost never worked i decided not even to bother and throw the mouse away, it was aging anyway. And went on to buy a new Bluetooth mouse today. No such luck would come to me.

People seem to be obsessed with RF and it’s stupid sluggish slow way of working. RF is sooooo 1991. Why not use a proper Bluetooth connection. Something a computer actually has built-in these days, well macs anyway, and some PC laptops do, sometimes…

The only bluetooth mouse i found was one from Trust. A cheap brand i won’t even touch the packaging of. It was a whopping 29 euros and has “laser technology with precision pointing array for extra high definition positioning” or some other high tech rubbish. Also it was very small, not even covering the palm of my hand…

All other mice were just “wireless” which practically means RF on “fast 2.4Ghz frequencies for noise free connections”. I don’t know about you, but 2.4Ghz is bound the be trouble… Wifi uses it, DECT phones do too, Wireless TV receivers and even Microwaves all mess about with that frequency and thus most likely will interfere with each other at some point. Especially since everyone uses it…

My search continues!
Any “formed-to-your-hand” Bluetooth mouse that is larger than average. Like the Logitech MX1000 or MX510 is good to consider i guess.