I own the old optical logitech mouse. It has fallen down a lot, also it was swinged against walls because of driver issues and one very rainy night I forgot it outside, connected to my x60s in standby. I'm still using both without any problems, although I often had to reboot the thinkpad because of software and again driver issues. Four years ago the left button started getting hard to press, it was a slow transition, so I learned to hit the right spot of it. Now it seems the problem has gone away by itself. I never understood the problem of clicking that scrolling wheel. The only ongoing problem is that I sometimes have to clean my desk, because these old mice only work on few kinds of surfaces.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:59 PM, David Leimbach <leim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >> >> > I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse >> > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p). >> >> Paul's code is now in p9p. Because the code can read >> where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can >> pretend there are three different buttons when in fact >> there's just one. Chording works too, and it's all very natural. >> It's quite elegant actually. Kudos to Paul. I hope that the >> code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as >> 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that. > > In fact it has made the trackpad unusable for me as I can't highlight > anything with a click of any kind at this point. Now if you have a mac > multi-touch laptop, you're going to have get an external mouse. > >> >> However, if you have any tendency toward repetitive strain injuries, >> you might want to avoid the Magic Mouse: not being able to touch >> the mouse with the non-clicking fingers means a less relaxing grip, >> especially when pretending its tiny surface has three buttons. >> After maybe four hours of use, my wrist had started to hurt. >> >> (I had a bad desk twelve years ago that hurt my wrists, and >> now they're sensitive to this kind of thing. But I'm not the only >> one - http://boingboing.net/2009/12/03/magic-mouse.html - and >> presumably that guy wasn't using 3 buttons or chording.) >> >> Back to the Evoluents for me. > > I'm back to using trackballs :-) . And I guess I either have to fix this > problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external > pointing device. > Dave >> >> Russ >> > >
