Favorite mice

[macgeek417]

DPI adjustment? You mean the button sensitivity knob.

Yeah... whatever it was...

 

[LCGuy]

For Classic (that is, OS 9 and below) Macs, the best mice i've ever used are the ADB Mouse II, or the Pro Mouse.

For PS/2 and USB computers, either of my MS wireless mice, a Microsoft Wireless Wheel Mouse (PS/2, but can be connected to USB via a USB -> PS/2 adaptor, or a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 (which works on either USB or bluetooth)

 

[shred]

Of the Apple mouses for older Macs, I like any of the "grey ball" ADB II Mouses. The grey balls were nice and heavy and generally tracked well, even when not cleaned regularly. A really nice (though little known) design feature was the locking mechanism for schools. There's a tiny little hole near the cover over the mouse ball. If you push a straightened out paper clip in there, the cover will click around a little further and lock, preventing students from taking the ball out (unless they have a paper clip and know the secret trick).

I loathed the Apple mouses of the same vintage with the little light weight black ball. They seriously suck and you were constantly having to clean the ball. Another stand-out for bad mouse design from Apple is the original iMac mouse AKA "The iPuck". What were Apple thinking!

 

[ianj]

Looking on my desk right now, I've got (roughly arranged in order of preference)...

Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Optical Pro

Apple Desktop Bus Mouse II

SGI three-button charcoal USB mouse

Apple Mighty Mouse (oddly enough, being used with a PC)

My favorite is probably the Kensington - I bought it years ago to use with my G3 iMac and use it on my G4 now, so it's the mouse I use most often. The ADB Mouse II is the most comfortable, but it's not as practical as having a few extra buttons. The rest are very good, although the Mighty Mouse has a few quirks (I only ended up with one because a friend gave it to me, but I do like it). There's something I like about the feel of a one-button mouse, so being able to have that and also right-click is useful to me. The shape of the SGI mouse fits the hand incredibly well, making up for it not having a scroll wheel.

What about this IBM mouse? It looks nice, and I was thinking about getting a "proper" PC mouse for my PC so I can free up the Mighty Mouse to carry around with my laptop. I'm a stickler for aesthetics, like IBM stuff, and am already using an IBM keyboard with the machine, so... anyone besides Scott have thoughts on it?

 

[coius]

I like in the following order:

new aluminum Trackpad

The animal Mice (they are sooo cute)

Logitech Mice

G.E. Generic Mouse

Trackballs (Logitech/Kensington/etc...)

Apple Mighty Mouse

Ones I like least:

Crappy Ball Mice

Apple "HockeyPuck" mouse

Apple ADB Mice

TrackStiks (IBM/Whatever)

Those little things that are bars that you push up/down/left/right and aren't really mice)

Trackpads that have tap support. They suck since it's the main default type. You have to install a drive to turn it off, and then the driver likes to disable side-scrolling, or disable it in some apps)

 

[Green78II]

My favorite mouse is the ADB Kensington Turbo Mouse I use with my IIsi and my Power Mac G3.

It has 4 buttons and I have no clue how to program them though...

 

[LCGuy]

Trackpads that have tap support. They suck since it's the main default type. You have to install a drive to turn it off, and then the driver likes to disable side-scrolling, or disable it in some apps)

Egad...I don't get why people like tap support so much. I remember when I first got my PowerBook 1400 brand new back in 1997, I turned on tapping because I'd heard it was a neat feature...quickly turned it off because i found it highly annoying. Flash forward 10 years, once I had a lecturer ask me to turn on tapping instead of clicking with the trackpad button since he found the sound of clicking of trackpad buttons to be distracting. Just the other day a lecturer for one of my courses at uni tried to look at a webpage on my MacBook and found it incredibly hard to use, since I have tapping turned off. How is it that some people can live with something so annoying? Oh, I know...in the same way the Crazy Frog became popular. :lol:

 

[Temetka]

I use trackpad tap all the time. I think it's a great feature.

My favorite wired mouse is the Logitech Trackman Marble.

2nd favorite is the Intellimouse Blue.

3rd favorite is the teardrop ADB mouse.

 

[jiffy]

In general, I find a simple Logitech optical wheel mouse (two buttons, one scroll wheel, with wire) to be the best. I used several different ADB-mouses on my Beige G3 and all of them sucked big time. I then tried mentioned Logitech mouse connected to a USB port and it was like having a new computer. Seriously: using that simple USB mouse on my Beige G3 improved it more than the Radeon 9200 and the 1 GHz G3 I upgraded it with...

Reliable, precise and a perfect fit.

 

[Dog Cow]

Want to know what my least-favorite mouse is? It's the round ADB Mouse II. Want to know why? Anyone who's had these things for years on end ought to know that the clicker, the mouse button, goes bad after a time. It gets to where you need to apply extra force to keep it down, so you'll end up dropping icons or having a menu roll up prematurely. I have about 4 or 5 of these mice, and only 1 has a good clicker.

 

[Christopher]

Are you talking about the ADB mouse II?

We had that happen with our performa. Then this mom and pop shop sold us another for $10.00 back in 2001 when the cool iMacs were coming out. Man I remember those things.

 

[Dog Cow]

Are you talking about the ADB mouse II?

Yep. Those things are the worst.