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    • R Offline
      remus
      last edited by

      Im not sure if its the case for all the wired mighty mice, but the one ive got at home has a really short USB cable, so might be worth picking up a USB extension cable while your at it.

      Or you could get a tablet 😄 http://www.wacom.com/productinfo/

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        kmead
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        Joe:

        You can easily get a Bluetooth USB plugin to add bluetooth to your machine. I don't know that you will get all of Apple's functionality when using it on a PC. They likely don't offer software to give the sideways rolling functionality.

        Most Apple mice have short cords because Apple keyboards have a USB hub in them so you need only plug into the keyboard which is likely only inches away.

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        • Joe WoodJ Offline
          Joe Wood
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          That's OK, I picked up a little notebook mouse today, I'll take the m mouse back.

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            caronte01
            last edited by

            I got an imac on my new job, with said mighty mouse. It really looks cool, but i´d say it´s not for everyone, or at least, not for me. The nipple thingy for scrolling is too sensitive, though it´s cool to scroll sideways in preview. It´s very hard to just orbit without zooming, and the wired version has an issue with the cable getting trapped under the edge of the mouse, preventing clicking. The side buttons are cool when assigned to expose, but after a while, the issues were bigger than the advantages. Found an old logitech optical scroll mouse (the really noisy ones 😉), and been happier ever since. Apple, while good at designing computers and os´es, really suck at designing mice. Do any of you remember the old hockey puck mouse that shipped with the first gen imac´s.

            That´s just my experience though...

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              solo
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              Just curious, is the plural of computer mouse mice?

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                remus
                last edited by

                I think so, solo.

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                • K Offline
                  kwistenbiebel
                  last edited by

                  @solo said:

                  Just curious, is the plural of computer mouse mice?

                  Off course...just like the plural of house is hise.

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                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                    jeff hammond
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                    louse / lice

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                      caronte01
                      last edited by

                      well, it´s certainly not mouses.... 😉

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                      • jujuJ Offline
                        juju
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                        This question came up on another forum as well. IIRC the case was that for the computer peripheral pointing device commonly referred to as a mouse it is perfectly acceptable to refer to it as either mice or mouses in the plural.

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                          Fixedale
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                          I just switched to this mouse from a microsoft one with a click wheel. The apple mouse works great in everything except sketchup. I can't get the orbit command to work while using the follow me tool. Once the left button is depressed you can't press the center "track ball" to orbit. I think I am going to switch back unless anyone here has a solution to this (other than remapping orbit to the side button.)

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