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The photos show why every magic mouse I've had always wore funny with the 'right button' getting mushy. There's only one microswitch and the right one is just a leaf spring.
I wasn't even aware that it could do right click. The magic mouses I had seen didn't want to do that.
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I suspect you’re right. I very much enjoyed the Magic Mouse but had similar issues with wrist discomfort. The neutral position of the human wrist is vertical - thumb pointing up as if shaking hands with someone. The Magic Mouse is so low-profile that it forces the wrist into an almost 90deg rotation. Ergonomically, it’s highly problematic. The solution for me was to switch to a vertical mouse (well, almost) that allo…
Tried the vertical mouse, but no help. My wrist seems to be permanently fucked. I use a trackpad 100% now, no problems.
I use my fingers on keyboards all day long. Body adapts and grows stronger with use, it doesn’t get more and more vulnerable. After I realized this it went away. Now I can use them 15h/day with 4.5h/day sleep with no problems.
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No, it was entirely to recycle the design and tooling of the Magic Mouse 1 which used AA batteries. The Magic Trackpad 2 and Magic Keyboard came out the exact same day as the MM2 but both of those happily work plugged in and even work wired while plugged in.
Supply chain guy - This is it right here. Hardware accessories like mice aren’t driving substantial sales or revenue; they’re just a cost of doing business if you sell PCs. But swapping tooling and retraining staff on assembly is extremely disruptive for a manufacturer. That disruption is passed back to the 1st party brand in incremental FOB and per-unit surcharge. The incremental cost eats at your margin, which eats…
That anyone uses this mouse for an extended period is insane. It’s heavy a fuck, not ergonomic in the slightest, has insane uncomfortable edging, and cannot be used plugged in.
This mouse has no redeeming qualities at all.
As far as ergonomics goes, I've never had any more problems with a Magic Mouse than with any other mouse including ergonomic mice.
People make fun of "you're holding it wrong", but really RSI does come down to holding and manipulating things in ways that aren't good for you. What ergonomic design does is try to make it so you that you will discover and use a good way of holding the thing on your own and/or try to make it so that it is hard to hold it in a bad way.
That doesn't mean that things that do not have an ergonomic design cannot be used ergonomically. It just means you might have to consciously work at holding and manipulating them safely at least until that becomes habitual.
For the Magic Mouse the way I hold it has my fingers and palm and wrist in the same position they would be in if I were just resting my arm on the table. The mouse is the right size and shape to fit well in the dome make by the curve of my resting fingers and resting palm.
I don't really have a grip on it. It is more caged than held. Movement is mostly moving my whole arm. My wrist has barely any movement at all. Even when scrolling the wrist barely moves. Instead my arm backs up and raises so my middle finger can bend down and scroll.
In practice most people don't care about the charging port being on the bottom because even if you forget to charge it for several weeks and it actually stops working it only takes two minutes to charge it up enough for 8 hours of work. As far as ergonomics goes, I've never had any more problems with a Magic Mouse than with any other mouse including ergonomic mice. People make fun of "you're holding it wrong", but re…
Good for this guy, wow. Nice project. I always thought that the Magic Mouse was really the ideal technology for interacting with a Mac--just too bad that it's so unergonomic. I can't prove it, but I blame a decade of Magic Mouse use for my very painful RSI, which I now have the pleasure of experiencing using any mouse at all. Apple's input devices are beautiful, but they totally blow comfort. It's as if their industr…
With the exception of a few select programs where a mouse is indispensable, I'm a happy Magic Trackpad user for over 10 years now. No RSI ever.
The Magic Mouse charge port is deliberate. Apple knows that people would leave the cable connected if it were placed at the edge. that would undermine the wireless aesthetic.
The Magic Mouse charge port is deliberate. Apple knows that people would leave the cable connected if it were placed at the edge. that would undermine the wireless aesthetic.
The idea that Apple did this because they didn't know what they were doing is weird. Of course they knew what they were doing. You can charge it in a minute or two.