Short one, mouse
Nov. 18th, 2011 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rbandrewsI got my laptop last night, I spent most of the evening messing with it and finally got Skyrim installed and running around 10. It performs beautifully. I want to make a longer post all about it, but just a small bit:
Microsoft makes a mouse called the Arc Touch Mouse. It's a flexible curve-shaped thing, it folds flat to carry around, and you can bend it back curved to use it. And the mouse wheel isn't actually a wheel, but a touch strip.
On the Apple equivalent (which I also have; the Magic Mouse) the touch stuff is annoying to use because you can't tell when it actually moves like with a physical wheel. But Microsoft (this is so weird to say) has made a much better interface: the mouse somehow physically clicks when the wheel moves one notch. Like there's a little thing inside it that taps the mouse a tiny bit, like a little force-feedback motor. It is the first touch-sensitive device that's as comfortable to use as a physical device.
So I guess, buy one of these mice
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Microsoft makes a mouse called the Arc Touch Mouse. It's a flexible curve-shaped thing, it folds flat to carry around, and you can bend it back curved to use it. And the mouse wheel isn't actually a wheel, but a touch strip.
On the Apple equivalent (which I also have; the Magic Mouse) the touch stuff is annoying to use because you can't tell when it actually moves like with a physical wheel. But Microsoft (this is so weird to say) has made a much better interface: the mouse somehow physically clicks when the wheel moves one notch. Like there's a little thing inside it that taps the mouse a tiny bit, like a little force-feedback motor. It is the first touch-sensitive device that's as comfortable to use as a physical device.
So I guess, buy one of these mice
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