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Don't even get me started on trackpads either. It's like writing trackpad is a problem solvable by a single human being and that person works for Apple. Seriously, their trackpad is fantastic and every other one is complete garbage.
It's incredibly frustrating. It's one of the things that takes Mac OS X from a perfect operating system to a good operating system. And it's such a simple problem.
I have tried a few different mouse acceleration fixes/apps but still can't get it to feel right. This article explains why nothing I've tried works well.
If you buy a Microsoft mouse, it comes with a driver that will make the mouse behave like it does in Windows.
I simply can't, after 4 years, move the mouse swiftly, and precisely to a point on the screen that I want. It falls short, it goes too far. I slow down to be more precise and the acceleration curve makes it go too annoyingly slow. I speed up and the cursor flies all over the screen. The cursor movement speed feels random and useless. I can't imagine how anybody tolerates it.
It's bloody annoying and the fact that there's not an option to just turn the stupid acceleration off is mind boggling.
I don't have these problems on Windows, Ubuntu, QNX, Haiku, Amiga OS, GEOS on the C64, RISC OS, the SNES mouse, etc. It's only OS X.
I don't even recall having the issue on MacOS.
I don't know if it was because I was damaged as a gamer when I was younger and can't appreciate something about the Apple way of handling mice, or Apple is just doing something wrong, but the way the device is handled on practically every other system I've ever used doesn't work like it does in OS X. It's infuriating and I've spent countless hours trying to fix it.
It's like my right arm has some debilitating muscle disease where I can't quite control what my arm does -- I can only give it vague directions and hope it ends up more or less where I want it to, then shift gears and take my time to get it to where I want it to go.
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a problem for me.
This is part of the problem, I think. If enough people noticed it, it would have been fixed a long time ago. It's probably similar to how some people don't notice the rainbow effect on DLP projectors, and others do.
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a problem for me.
Windows and Linux (Ubuntu Gnome or whatnot) have a much much much more responsive mouse input for me than Mac OS X. Maybe some people don't notice this, but for those who do, it's very annoying. It's inconceivable to me how somebody doesn't notice it, especially if OS X is supposed to be for graphic designers who use the mouse a lot. Maybe they all have Wacom or some such tablets. It's much harder to hit any buttons…
Strangely on some installations it doesn't seem to come into effect. For example, I have never noticed it on a MacBook using the touchpad. And I could have sworn it was not there when I first installed Snow Leopard.
But right after installing Lion I had to spend the first few hours hunting down utilities to get the mouse back into a usable state...
Longtime Mac user here... for what it's worth, I don't know what the OP is referring to. I use both Mac and Windows regularly (home vs work), and I don't see a noticeable difference. Maybe I've just gotten used to it. Definitely isn't a problem for me.
Windows and Linux (Ubuntu Gnome or whatnot) have a much much much more responsive mouse input for me than Mac OS X. Maybe some people don't notice this, but for those who do, it's very annoying. It's inconceivable to me how somebody doesn't notice it, especially if OS X is supposed to be for graphic designers who use the mouse a lot. Maybe they all have Wacom or some such tablets. It's much harder to hit any buttons…
If you grew up with one system, the other is horribly broken and I'd argue nearly impossible to learn. I'm a graphic designer who used Windows for years at work without ever "getting used to it", even if I never came home and touched my Mac. Now I work full time at home and it's heaven to have a mouse/cursor that does what I want it to do.
I've done original research where we tested users perception of lag. We tested 5ms, 10ms, 15ms, and up. We found that most people were able to perceive lag in the 30ms range, and so this post is correct when it says that. However, I was able to recognize lag down to around 15ms. (We did double blind tests and you had to indicate when you saw lag, not all of the events were lagging. It was pretty accurate, but this wa…
No one can see flicker in bulbs with electronic ballasts though.