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I'm happy to see this, although it's kind of disappointing that "perfect" products are ever retired in the first place in the constant drive for change, often simply for change's sake. I'm not against improvement, of course - the iPhone X is one of the most perfect products I've ever had the pleasure of owning - but at the same time the current Macbook Pro is the first model I've literally not wanted because of how b…
It’s performance innovations like these and working closer with the community to understand the needs of our consumers that will help influence future Microsoft mice. I thought the verdict of the Classic IntelliMouse was dead on arrival by the gaming community just because the sensor was subpar. It really seemed as if MS was exceptionally tone deaf to the community in this case (which is weird since they explicitly m…
> Classic IntelliMouse was dead on arrival by the gaming community I was competitive gamer during that era (played for CS clan The Speakeasy Offensive, or TSO). Only the first release had a sub-par sensor (think 100 dpi?), but everything afterwards dominated traditional trackball mice. By the time my favorite mouse of all time was released in 2002 (Logitech MX500), I don't know of a single serious gamer that wasn't u…
However, this one is only compatible with Windows. C'mon Microsoft.
I'm happy to see this, although it's kind of disappointing that "perfect" products are ever retired in the first place in the constant drive for change, often simply for change's sake. I'm not against improvement, of course - the iPhone X is one of the most perfect products I've ever had the pleasure of owning - but at the same time the current Macbook Pro is the first model I've literally not wanted because of how b…
Most likely the plastic molds wore out and the decision came to either spend $100k per mold to restart production or sell a new product. Usually the right thing to do is to modernize the product at this point. It's not a choice between leaving things alone and change for change's sake.
Once the molds are worked out, getting new ones made is simple and cheap.
How about bringing back the original version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_Keyboard Just take the 1994 version and remake it in USB, with no other changes whatsoever. Thanks.
I would love that one with mechanical switches though.
How about bringing back the original version of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Natural_Keyboard Just take the 1994 version and remake it in USB, with no other changes whatsoever. Thanks.
I've used the v1, the Elite, the Pro, the 4000, and now the Sculpt Ergonomic (this comment typed on the latter). In my opinion, each has been better than the last. It is pretty hard for to work in the same room as anyone using anything prior to the 4000, due to the loud spacebar, and even the 4000's spacebar is pretty loud. I do slightly prefer the larger hump of the early keyboards. The Sculpt Ergonomic is a departu…
I wish MS made a wired version of it. At least on MacOS, the dongle seems to be a perennial problem when new OS versions emerge.
I wish they'd bring back the Microsoft Trackball Explorer - the button switches on mine eventually wore out. This had five buttons - left, right, scroll-click, forward, back (all programmable). https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=microsoft%20trackball%2... Question for the lefties: what kind of pointing device do you prefer? Mouse? Touchpad? Do you prefer to swap L&R clicks when you use other people's computers?
When they were discontinued I bought 2 spares to ensure I could continue to use one. They all still work.
Too little, too late. Zowie copied the classic Intellimouse shapes, but offer them in a range of sizes with a class-leading optical sensor. https://zowie.benq.com/en/product/mouse.html The new Intellimouse preserves the old shape, but ignores the thing that made it legendary in the first place - the MLT04 sensor, which was (entirely accidentally) perfect for FPS gaming. Microsoft don't even mention their choice of se…