Apple mice to get more buttons

Ghryphen · 08-02-2005, 04:32 PM

They are moving right into the 16th century, Apple mice now with multiple buttons! Can users handle it?

http://www.betanews.com/article/Appl...use/1122996051

Raiyven · 08-02-2005, 05:25 PM

/token appearance with pie
multiple meaning what, now- 3?
I can see it all now... 'Apple has unveiled this 'new' innovation in anticipation of a landslide sales increase with the impending release of such new games as Lemmings 3-D, Age of Empires, and the special 6-disc re-release of last year's bestseller, Descent.'

It's about as laughable as the thought of Chevy releasing their 2006 models with that 'new fangled Fuel In-Jection thingy'.

SiFi · 08-02-2005, 05:31 PM

And all these years, those mac users who have hidden their secret shame of using non-mac mice can breathe easier, as there is now a less efficient answer

Though getting the surface to be touch sensetive is interesting: no switches to wear out.

Raiyven · 08-02-2005, 05:53 PM

touch sensitive? neat! maybe i should've actually read the article before i subsumed into my jackassery

Cerberus · 08-02-2005, 09:27 PM

I can't stand Apple Mice, I hate the push the whole mouse down to click thing.

insaneferret · 08-04-2005, 07:25 AM

still stupid though, how are we going to know it clicks without the little vibration through your finger

they still lose though, 8 buttons FTW:

Ghryphen · 08-04-2005, 09:35 AM

Hehe, I'm happy with my 4 buttons and tilt wheel

STUWEY · 08-05-2005, 02:11 PM

Hey Gryph, you have an Intellimouse?

hehe I imagine there will be few buying that mac mouse for their PCs

Ghryphen · 08-05-2005, 02:39 PM

yeah

Raiyven · 08-07-2005, 09:51 PM

i'm using a Logitech MX Laser cordless mouse, myself. 8 buttons, baby! Though, the packaged software doesnt seem to recognize the tilt mousewheel. I don't know about anyone else, if they've used one, but these ergonomics arent great for gaming. I find the mouse is too high in the middle, and it cocks your wrist back to a point that it hampers mobility (and hurts, dammit)

for FPS, i go back to my 3-button logitech optical

08-02-2005, 04:32 PM	#1
Ghryphen THZ Founder Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,927	Apple mice to get more buttons They are moving right into the 16th century, Apple mice now with multiple buttons! Can users handle it? http://www.betanews.com/article/Appl...use/1122996051 __________________ The Hounds of Zeus \| Allied Tribal Forces

08-02-2005, 05:25 PM	#2
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	/token appearance with pie multiple meaning what, now- 3? I can see it all now... 'Apple has unveiled this 'new' innovation in anticipation of a landslide sales increase with the impending release of such new games as Lemmings 3-D, Age of Empires, and the special 6-disc re-release of last year's bestseller, Descent.' It's about as laughable as the thought of Chevy releasing their 2006 models with that 'new fangled Fuel In-Jection thingy'. __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)

08-02-2005, 05:31 PM	#3
SiFi Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: ([]*[])The Frozen North Age: 42 Posts: 230	And all these years, those mac users who have hidden their secret shame of using non-mac mice can breathe easier, as there is now a less efficient answer Though getting the surface to be touch sensetive is interesting: no switches to wear out. __________________ Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent -Dionysius of Halicarnassus

08-02-2005, 05:53 PM	#4
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	touch sensitive? neat! maybe i should've actually read the article before i subsumed into my jackassery __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)

08-02-2005, 09:27 PM	#5
Cerberus One bad mofo'n Hound Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Your Mom's House Age: 47 Posts: 1,319	I can't stand Apple Mice, I hate the push the whole mouse down to click thing. __________________ Tribes:Ascend Play it today for free

08-04-2005, 07:25 AM	#6
insaneferret Forum Regular Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Houston, TX Age: 40 Posts: 303	still stupid though, how are we going to know it clicks without the little vibration through your finger they still lose though, 8 buttons FTW: __________________ Last edited by insaneferret; 08-04-2005 at 07:28 AM.

08-04-2005, 09:35 AM	#7
Ghryphen THZ Founder Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,927	Hehe, I'm happy with my 4 buttons and tilt wheel __________________ The Hounds of Zeus \| Allied Tribal Forces

08-05-2005, 02:11 PM	#8
STUWEY Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Right behind you Age: 41 Posts: 242	Hey Gryph, you have an Intellimouse? hehe I imagine there will be few buying that mac mouse for their PCs

08-05-2005, 02:39 PM	#9
Ghryphen THZ Founder Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: WA, USA Age: 50 Posts: 3,927	yeah __________________ The Hounds of Zeus \| Allied Tribal Forces

08-07-2005, 09:51 PM	#10
Raiyven Big Bad Thread Boogeyman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Burlington, ON. Age: 42 Posts: 406	i'm using a Logitech MX Laser cordless mouse, myself. 8 buttons, baby! Though, the packaged software doesnt seem to recognize the tilt mousewheel. I don't know about anyone else, if they've used one, but these ergonomics arent great for gaming. I find the mouse is too high in the middle, and it cocks your wrist back to a point that it hampers mobility (and hurts, dammit) for FPS, i go back to my 3-button logitech optical __________________ "For in that we are both especially daring and especially thorough in calculating what we attempt, we can truly be distinguished from other men, for whom ignorance is boldness but calculation brings hesitancy. Rightly would they be judged strongest in spirit who recognize both dangers and pleasures with utmost clarity and are on neither count deterred from risks." - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: 2.40, "The Funeral Oration of Perikles" (431 BCE)