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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on August 02, 2005, 12:03:22 pm
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You thought one button was bad? Now they're doing zero button mice! :D
http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/
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Too bad all that boils down to is the standard two-button wheel mouse that PCs have been shipping with for what, 8 years now?
Don't get me wrong, it looks like a decent mouse, but am I the only one who sees apple release "new" products that are actually half a decade or more behind the times, only to see them treated as the best thing since sliced bread?
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heh, it's actually a three "button" mouse with a 4 way scroll feature (hopefully more useful than MSs implementation) :D
edit: reading it again, it appears that it's actually an 8 way scroll feature.
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Originally posted by Apple
Mighty Mouse
Carl smells a lawsuit.
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[color=66ff00]It's got one of those thinkpad-esque pointers, far better than lappy touchpads IMHO.
edit: on closer inspection it's a mini roller ball.
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Hell has frozen over...
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Woo! An overdesigned, bog standard featured device that only costs twice that of a perfectly adequate and functional equivalent - stylish!
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Ewww.
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Multidirectional wheels, eh? Umm... Apple.... Yeah, I hate to remind you of that nasty little bit in the '80s, but Microsoft beat you to it (http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/features/tiltwheel.mspx).......again....... Oh.... Yeah.... So did Logitech (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2135,CONTENTID=9043)....
What next? Eight-bit gaming consoles? Oooo... Maybe they could let people upgrade their desktop video cards (among other things), and stop treating their users like stupid monkeys. Nah... They didn't want to be competitive in the twenty-first century.
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Umm.... As far as I know it's been possible to upgrade the desktop video card in most Macs for years....
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HORRAY FOR COUNTER INTUITIVENESS!!!
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No button mice = bad for gaming.
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Originally posted by Kosh
No button mice = bad for gaming.
It's a Mac mouse, Macs are even more hopeless for gaming than Linux is.
edit: Also, how is it counter-intuitive? Press the area to the left of the scroll ball to left-click, the area to the right to right-click, the scroll ball to scroll and finally, squeeze it to bring up the dashboard. It's no more counter-intuitive than any other mouse.
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Nevermind, i thuaght you rotaed the mosue to scroll.
Still.. it's a mac mosue.
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Novelty masquarading as quality.
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Apple are by no means the only organisation doing that though...
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So how many buttons does it have? Apple's description seems to contradict itself on this. I would have expected it to be wireless though. That's just the kind of thing I could imagine Apple including on their mice and doubling the price for it.
It's a Mac mouse, Macs are even more hopeless for gaming than Linux is.
Apple these days is just sad. Almost everything they release is ridiculously overpriced and screams of form without function. The funny thing is that my old 33mhz 4MB Mac from 1990 actually has a lot of great games on it and was better than most DOS machines back then. How times have changed...
It's got one of those thinkpad-esque pointers, far better than lappy touchpads IMHO.
Why do they even include touchpads on laptops? Those things are completely unusable. It takes forever to perform even the simplest tasks with them. My laptop has both a touchpad and a pointing stick and I've just disabled the touchpad driver for good.
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next product, the iMouse shuffle!
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Originally posted by CP5670
So how many buttons does it have? Apple's description seems to contradict itself on this. I would have expected it to be wireless though. That's just the kind of thing I could imagine Apple including on their mice and doubling the price for it.
It's got three click "buttons" (the scrollball is a button) and two squeeze buttons on the side.
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Wow. So that's what it looks like when Apple's industrial designers throw their hands in the air and say, "Screw it". The damn thing looks like a giant Tylenol.
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But to give Apple some credit, this is a clever scheme to give Mac users backwards compatibility (if for some reason they like the one-button scheme) while still making their mouse more useful because the thing can easily act exactly like their current one button mice.
Plus it still forces developers to keep all the application functions accessible via one mouse button, which was the original intention of the whole one-button scheme.
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but why would one intend to do such a thing?
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..and that's good how?
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APPLE SUCKS! There I said it.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
Wow. So that's what it looks like when Apple's industrial designers throw their hands in the air and say, "Screw it". The damn thing looks like a giant Tylenol.
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Fry: "I can't swallow that!"
Professor Farnsworth: "Well then, good news! It's a suppository!"
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(http://pictures.my-xanadu.net/albums/userpics/10001/iProduct.JPG)
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I love you, in a non-romantic way.
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He didn't make that, you know.
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It's still true. Yuppie bastards.
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Yeah, but I wish I had made it. It's so true. ^_^
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Well yeah, that goes without saying.
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Originally posted by aldo_14
[q]
Fry: "I can't swallow that!"
Professor Farnsworth: "Well then, good news! It's a suppository!"
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Ahh. The deep south episode. Classic. (I love that line, personally. Up there with 'Fry you mmmmmmmmmmmmoron.')
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LoL.
Mac's are still the most powerfull machines used in the graphics industry. :p
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Nobody's perfect.
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:lol:
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Meh..
*goes back to playing Doom 3*
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Originally posted by FireCrack
Nevermind, i thuaght you rotaed the mosue to scroll.
Still.. it's a mac mosue.
How in the world did you manage to misspell "mouse"??? :eek2:
Originally posted by MicroPsycho
next product, the iMouse shuffle!
SuperShuffle's more like it.
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Originally posted by Grug
LoL.
Mac's are still the most powerfull machines used in the graphics industry. :p
Everyone uses them because they're standard in the graphics industry. You know why they're the standard? Because everyone uses them. There's some unwritten rule that it's blasphemous to run Photoshop on a PC. Beyond that, neither the software nor the hardware does anything that a PC isn't capable of.
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Speaking of which, I have yet to see a Mac that runs Photoshop faster than my middle-of-the-road office PC, an Intel dual-core P4 3.0Ghz w/ 1Gb RAM.
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Since when do "middle-of-the-road" office apps need a frelling 3GHz dual-core system with a gig of RAM?
Back when 300MHz was state of the art, I never recall thinking that Word was running too slow.
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Yeah, but you didn't have the oh-so-invaluable clippy then.
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i was typing fast, you'l notice it's merely an error of one hand moving to u to press t and the other to s to be ready to press but my brain got the order messed up.
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Originally posted by ZylonBane
Since when do "middle-of-the-road" office apps need a frelling 3GHz dual-core system with a gig of RAM?
Back when 300MHz was state of the art, I never recall thinking that Word was running too slow.
I never said I use "middle-of-the-road" apps, I said my machine was that. I regularly use apps like Photoshop CS and InDesign CS to work on print publications.
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Still, dual core 3.0Ghz isn't middle of the road, by any stretch. :ick: :ick:
I can and do still run Photoshop 7 fine on my dad's 266 Mhz computer. The speed at which computer speeds are increasing is outpacing the need for such speed, among average users at least. It promotes bloated, wasteful programming.
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...only to people who's PC can't run it.
Since PC hardware is so insaney cheap these days, I've given up caring about so-called "bloatware".
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....given that you have 'get Internet Explorer' in your siggy, I'm not surprised.......
so long as bloatware or just general inefficient programming exists, we'll have diminishing returns on our hardware expenditure. Not only that, because optimization by nature requires more understanding of precise program functions, I'd reckon we'll probably have more bugs too.