Of mice and men

[roadrunnertwice]

Arrrrrrrgh.

I bought this mouse just yesterday, and after a day of use I have decided that I fucking hate it. It feels light and weak and plasticky, and it's entirely the wrong shape for my hand, and it's practically too big for my desk, and the "tilt wheel" feels janky as all hell and is a bogus solution in the first place, and the regular scroll wheel is sludgy and inaccurate, and the middle button is too stiff, and I hate hate hate it. Anyway, I've reboxed it and will be returning it to 4th D where I bought it.

In the meantime, I have to decide what mouse I want to replace it. Any suggestions? Right now, I'm leaning toward Apple's Mighty Mouse. It's got 4 buttons, it has a real 2-dimensional scroll-widget ("tilt wheel..." pfagh!), and I know from my experience with the one-button Apple mice that it feels decent in my hand. I got to use one yesterday when I was looking around the store, and I think I can get used to it. Anyone got any contraindications or better ideas?

EDIT:

Bought it, used it for a day, was terminally underwhelmed. In no particular order, here are the salient points:

1. It feels light, plasticky, and weak in your hand. Unforgivable at that price.
2. The body has a big rakish slant to it and a tall hump in the middle; you love it or you hate it, and boy howdy did I hate it. Felt like I was struggling to keep my hand from sliding off, and it gave me really bad button-pressing leverage.
3. Tilt wheel: worst feature ever. It's not even particularly useful, since it only scrolls a tick at a time. It also feels really loose and wobbly. That's a technical term, there. Wobbly.
4. The middle button is far too stiff. I don't want to thumb-wrestle, pal, I just want to close that tab.
5. The scroll wheel feels really sludgy.
6. How, exactly, am I supposed to press those 4th and 5th buttons? Not that I have time to use 'em, since I'm so busy trying to beat down that middle button.

In short, it is rubbish, and I'm returning it tomorrow.

Comments

[tomax.livejournal.com]

You should have bought a Mighty Mouse (http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/)!

[roadrunnertwice]

That's your advice? Well, good. Because that's totally the plan.

[jonsonite.livejournal.com]

What would one do with 4 buttons if one had them? Maybe I'm behind the times...

[roadrunnertwice]

The first three are basic; left click, right click, middle click. (Middle click is essential for tabbed browsing, since it opens and closes tabs.) I think the traditional thing to do with a Mac 4th button is to assign it to some Exposé function; my druthers is probably good ol' F9 (all windows).

On a windows mouse, buttons 4 and 5 are traditionally "back" and "forward." Hard to live without, once you've seriously gotten used to it. Or so I hear.