Mac user, which mouse do you prefer...

[Guest Olof]

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[Guest guy_mancuso]

I use the Razor mice. best mouse i ever used.

 

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[andit]

Hi Jan,

 

I use the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse. Apart from being a bit heavy on batteries I've had no problems.

 

Andreas

[rjans]

I also use the Apple Wireless Mighty mouse. I have no problem with its weight.

Best

[Hans Roggen]

Logitech MX revolution. The best mouse i've ever had with an amazing scrollwheel.

 

Cordless Mice > Logitech® MX Revolution

 

When i'm working wwith pictures however i always use a Wacom tablet.

 

Hans

[spylaw4]

Standard wired Mighty Mouse. Got fed up with battery changing on the BT mouse. Still use the BT keyboard but I"m getting fed up with battery changing on that too!

Now on my 2nd Mighty M - it gave up scrolling so got it exchanged under warranty - now this one is going the same way - won't scroll down and my previous cure doesn't work.

[MJLogan]

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I use a Wacom drawing tablet, and can thus choose between a wireless (and battery-free) mouse and a pen for delicate retouching. On the road, I often bring a first-generation Apple wireless mouse, as I hate trackpads.

[charlesphoto99]

I have a bad wrist so I went with the Evoluent. Radical design and no more wrist problems. Works great. Highly recommend. The Mac mouses were killing me.

 

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[StS]

I use a standard Microsoft mouse . Their hardware is better than their software and I need three mouse buttons (coming from the UNIX side to OSX) plus a scroll wheel (got used to it).

[carstenw]

Logitech MX revolution. Love that free-spinning scroll wheel and the shape.

[lx1jon]

Standard wired Mighty Mouse. Got fed up with battery changing on the BT mouse. Still use the BT keyboard but I"m getting fed up with battery changing on that too!

Now on my 2nd Mighty M - it gave up scrolling so got it exchanged under warranty - now this one is going the same way - won't scroll down and my previous cure doesn't work.

 

I use the wired Mighty Mouse at home and work, and am really pleased with the ergonomics - something I've not seen talked about much. But before I enlarge on that let me say that the scrollball does need a little TLC. Don't use it with greasy fingers, and give it a clean occasionally - there's something on the Apple site about this, but basically I slightly dampen a microfibre cloth, lay it flat and rub the mouse upside down over it to clean the ball (without getting damp in the electronics). So far that's kept the two I use daily healthy.

 

On ergonomics there's a neat thing I've never seen mentioned. Apple always used single-button mice in the past (for which they took a lot of flak) but the big upside is that the strain of pressing and dragging would be spread over several fingers, or indeed with the designs of recent years, the whole hand. This seems to me to take away a lot of the stress that potentially leads to RSI (I am not a medic, rather an engineer and hobby musician who'd like to keep fingers working!). Put it this way, I did occasionally find myself using traditional 2-button mice and whenever I did I always ended up with aching fingers/hand which worried me a lot.

 

Coming to the point, the Mighty Mouse (being as it uses touch sensitivity to give the 2-button functionality, while having a single real switch operated by the whole body tipping) gives the best of both worlds. For a right-click I press only on the right side, but as that is normally just a quick click to bring up a menu it isn't very stressful. For all other mouse operations I press with all fingers, the whole hand, and that turns out (unadvertised) to function as a "left click". So whenever dragging or fine adjustment is needed I'm using the whole hand and basically getting the same absence of stress (for me anyway) that I always enjoyed with traditional Apple 1-button mice. I suspect it would also do the appropriate thing if programmed left-handed, but I haven't tried that.

 

And finally for the Unix aficionados you can program clicking on the ball as a third button, and the 'squeeze' as a fourth.

 

I'd hate to use anything else -- and coming right on topic the scroll ball gives x-y motion that is very handy in Lightroom.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Jonathan

[cwf]

I for one really like the Apple wireless one-button mouse even though I only switched to Macs something over three years ago and thus have a long two button mouse history. The lack of a tether makes a considerable difference to ease of use. It does, however, seem to go through a lot of AA batteries.

 

Within the past month I got a Wacom Graphire tablet. I can see its worth in fine work on images and it is an interesting alternative to the mouse. The tablet also came with a mouse, but I seem to prefer the Apple mouse, likely because it is not limited to the 4x5 active area of the tablet.

 

While I use a mouse with either hand, I write left handed. This has me using the Apple mouse to the right and the Wacom tablet (and its pen) to the left of the keyboard. That rather strange (to me, at least, at first) combination seems quite usable.

[frc]

Wacom A6 tablet with mouse and pen.

Mighty mouse alongside with the ball adjusted very slow.

[pierovitch]

I vary my mice to manage a mouse related injury. I use a wacom tablet and mouse, wired mighty mouse logitec marble mouse for 3D and targus mini presenter mouse for travelling.

different mice use different muscle groups and spread the strain of pro mouse use.

 

Cheers Pierre

 

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[ChrisDIGILUX2]

A pencil and a WACOM tablet... could not use a mouse anymore, it would be like using a pencil with mittens...

 

- chris

[bill_green]

A pencil and a WACOM tablet... could not use a mouse anymore, it would be like using a pencil with mittens...

 

- chris

 

And if you are using a mouse, the five button Wacom mouse is the best I have used.

[frc]

We're among the rare left overs of a generation that learnt how to hold a pen properly;-)

[Guest bresson]

Kensington Expert Mouse: 4 buttons+2 chords= 6 programable options, scroll wheel plus all the usual fine tuning adjustments. It can be programed for keyboard short cuts or specific application like P.S.

Forget about stress related injuries etc. It's bigger than most mice but it stays put so you save desk space. I tried the wireless version but I did'nt like the build quality (cheesie) pun intended. I've been using Kensingtons' in one form or another for over ten years and could never go back to a movable mouse.

I have a Wacom tablet also which is great but takes up way to much space so I only use it if I'm going to be doing a marathon P.S. session.

All the Best,

Brian

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[d_lague]

The mouse I prefer is the one attached to my PC. It has 2 buttons and a scroll wheel and it is wireless.

 

Mac mouse.......I will pass on any Mac!