Computer Hope
Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: Accessless on April 15, 2013, 04:55:23 AM
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As the topic stated I'm looking for a good trackball mouse but I can't find any that are in the style that I like. I used to have a brilliant mouse that had the ball on top controlled by your index and middle finger (first part is easy enough to find) and the buttons on the side to be used by your thumb (this is the hard part). Every time I do come across a mouse in this style I find that it is an antique on sale for in excess of £100 used.
This is somewhat close to what I was after but it turns out to be one of those sort after antiques:
http://www.productwiki.com/upload/images/microsoft_trackball_explorer.jpg
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Not their only Model... (http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/wireless-trackball-m570)
And new...
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There is nothing right about that mouse.
That one has a thumb operated ball and finger operated buttons, the norm for these mice nowadays. Unfortunately I find these mice to be backwards, the equivalent of a left handed mouse if you will.
I have now used the terms mice and mouse so often now that it sounds weird...
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As i mentioned it's not the only one...
Did you happen to visit their site ? ?
I have now used the terms mice and mouse so often now that it sounds weird...
In this context wouldn't it be meese ? ?
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My friend has this mouse:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble?crid=8
It's brilliant! My only beef with it - no scrolling.
Edit: And no middle click.
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You do also see these styles of mouse:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble?crid=8
But I can't see how that could be comfortable to use with the left and right click buttons on the opposite sides of the mouse. I really don't understand why the design that I like isn't produced anymore, especially considering the second hand value of these mice.
Technically the plural for a computer mouse is mouses, but that just sounds weird to me. (Although I beleive that due to common use it has now defaulted back to mice)
*Edit* Lol I didn't check your link before submiting my reply.
My friend has this mouse:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/trackman-marble?crid=8
It's brilliant! My only beef with it - no scrolling.
Edit: And no middle click.
But it has the buttons for left and right click either side of the mouse right?
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Meese...
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It's not meese! I don't think that it's even a word.
Also my current mouse has spontaneously decided that it wants to work again so panic over.
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Technically the plural for a computer mouse is mouses
I don't know where you got that from. The online Oxford Dictionaries entry for mouse states the plural for the small rodent is mice, while the plural for the small computer connected device is either mice or mouses. However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well. The term mice was seen in print in "The Computer as a Communication Device", written by J. C. R. Licklider in 1968.
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So meese is officially out then ? ?