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What are your concerns with using a wireless mouse?
I hate batteries.
Rechargeables don’t cut it?
Death Of The Mouse?
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#12I'd normally say a resounding "no" for the reasons everyone else is stating: fat finger problem, pixel-perfect precision, arm strain of pointing at a screen, etc.
However, for the last year or so I've exclusively used the Trackpoint on my Thinkpad. Amazing little gizmo. Almost the same precision as a mouse, three buttons to click with, and it keeps your hands in the touch-typing position at all times. I was experiencing pretty bad mouse-button-clicking RSI, and hitting the Trackpoint buttons with my thumbs instead saves me.
Any other fans here?
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#13Personal computing has left the realm of the desk and the office. Surely, we can use a mouse and keyboard while being mobile, but we wouldn't trade the accuracy and ergonomics of a mouse and keyboard for something else when at home or at work. Many new devices, like the iPad, are consumption devices. You use it to watch videos, to play games, to listen to music, to read books, or to surf the web. Creation on these de…
Ehmmm, the ergonomics of mice is horrid. Just read a bit about mouse damages. Touch might not be the saviour, but dont holdt the mouse as a good example of ergonomics.
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#14Microsoft presented their new touch mouse at CES. Yeah, mice are definitely not new and exciting at this point, but until 'touch' becomes ubiquitous they are still quite necessary. Since I still have to live with mice for the foreseeable future, I'm frustrated at the lack of decent wired mice on the market. Wireless mice always give me tracking issues and I don't like the inconvenience of replacing batteries. But eve…
Have you tried a wireless mouse recently? They get pretty great battery life. 2-3 months is pretty common. I think Apple says the Magic Mouse lasts 4 for normal usage which sounds about right to me.
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#15I'd normally say a resounding "no" for the reasons everyone else is stating: fat finger problem, pixel-perfect precision, arm strain of pointing at a screen, etc. However, for the last year or so I've exclusively used the Trackpoint on my Thinkpad. Amazing little gizmo. Almost the same precision as a mouse, three buttons to click with, and it keeps your hands in the touch-typing position at all times. I was experienc…
I've been using trackpads instead of mice for the last 6-8 years. This way your working environment is always the same regardless of whether you're at your desk or sitting on the sofa
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#16I'd normally say a resounding "no" for the reasons everyone else is stating: fat finger problem, pixel-perfect precision, arm strain of pointing at a screen, etc. However, for the last year or so I've exclusively used the Trackpoint on my Thinkpad. Amazing little gizmo. Almost the same precision as a mouse, three buttons to click with, and it keeps your hands in the touch-typing position at all times. I was experienc…
I prefer to use the "trackpoint" or a trackball as much as possible. For certain activities like gaming or detailed photoshop work a mouse is preferable due to increased precision, but for ordinary GUI interaction the better ergonomics of the trackball pay off immensely.
I think multi-touch is interesting, and I think it's dominant right now in electronics shows precisely because it is new, interesting, and innovative. But I don't think it will be the one and only pointing device to ever exist in the future.
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#17Since our eyes are built into the front plate of our head and our head is mounted upright on our torso, displays are bound to stand vertically in front of our eyes. Hands are pretty bad at interacting with vertical surfaces as this requires us to lift both hands and arms for prolonged periods of time. Hence, there has to be a horizontal, desktop-surface that we manually interact with and a vertical surface that we lo…
That is not entirely true. Our head isn't mounted on our torso, it's mounted on our neck which can swivel! That's why you don't have to hold a book or your mobile phone or tablet at eye level.
Also, many marvelous masterpieces have been created by painters working with an easel, where the requirement of having to lift their arms doesn't seem to have been too much of a distraction.
If you really want to interact with a horizontal input device and a vertical output device, mice are not the only option. Pen tablets like those made by Wacom come to mind.
EDIT: Also check out the BendDesk which tries to address the horizontal/vertical issue: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/benddesk
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#18Touch killing the mouse makes about as much sense as helicopters killing airplanes.
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#19Microsoft presented their new touch mouse at CES. Yeah, mice are definitely not new and exciting at this point, but until 'touch' becomes ubiquitous they are still quite necessary. Since I still have to live with mice for the foreseeable future, I'm frustrated at the lack of decent wired mice on the market. Wireless mice always give me tracking issues and I don't like the inconvenience of replacing batteries. But eve…
Buy a gaming mouse. You won't be forced to game with them, and many of them offer excellent features (variable dpi, for example). I have had good experience with Razer mice but there are other brands as well.
Re: Death Of The Mouse?
#20Microsoft presented their new touch mouse at CES. Yeah, mice are definitely not new and exciting at this point, but until 'touch' becomes ubiquitous they are still quite necessary. Since I still have to live with mice for the foreseeable future, I'm frustrated at the lack of decent wired mice on the market. Wireless mice always give me tracking issues and I don't like the inconvenience of replacing batteries. But eve…
Have you tried a wireless mouse recently? They get pretty great battery life. 2-3 months is pretty common. I think Apple says the Magic Mouse lasts 4 for normal usage which sounds about right to me.
I've got the magic mouse, and the batteries do last for ages. Downside is, it's a mouse, so it feels rather clunky to use when you are used to the Apple touchpads.