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[artzy65]

You forgot the puck mouse for the original iMac.

It had a single button that was difficult to find without looking and you didn't know
which way it was pointing. I dumped as soon as I could.

[DTNick]

You think the puck mouse was bad? The Mighty Mouse is awful. It has right-click functionality, but no second button. It uses a touch sensor in the button to distinguish between right-click and left click, so you have to remove your finger from the left side of the mouse to perform a right click.
Funny that a company that prides itself on good design can't make a decent mouse.

[smax013]

DTNick said:

You think the puck mouse was bad? The Mighty Mouse is awful. It has right-click functionality, but no second button. It uses a touch sensor in the button to distinguish between right-click and left click, so you have to remove your finger from the left side of the mouse to perform a right click.

Funny that a company that prides itself on good design can't make a decent mouse.

While there are things that I do not like about the Mighty Mouse (I find the side buttons to be a pain in the rear...I constantly engage them when just moving the mouse around...thus, I ended up turning them off), the "puck" mouse is/was WAY worse.

FWIW, I don't really have much trouble with the right-click of the Mighty Mouse...although I do still prefer a physical second button, which is why I use a Logictech Bluetooth mouse with my MacBook Pro rather than a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. My only Mighty Mouse is on my rather infrequently used old G4 desktop. Of course, my Windows PCs all have true two button mice.

[HarveyDanger]

As soon as I saw the torso mouse, I knew a Total Recall reference was coming.

[TechieXP]

@Smax
The thing I hate about Apple's mice? They don't work the same in Windows. One thing that is great about Windows mice...they work exactly the same in OSX.

[scapalexis]

The mighty mouse really sucks in my opinion. It's flat and has no buttons. Seems to be only useful for web browsing. The gun mouse looks really cool, and might add a little extra touch to an FPS. Try playing an FPS with a mighty mouse!

[monic]

I think the world's greatest mouse is the pointing stick developed by IBM. Since it's invention, I have been buying only laptops with the pointing stick. Why waste the keyboard space on a touchpad or remove your hands from the keyboard at all. It is responsive, accurate, and efficient.

[miner47]

Where is the horse ?

[omni]

The mice are really funny, but I liked the Benj Edwards' comments on each one even better! Wish I had that kind of sense of humour :-) Omnivorous

[squishie]

I think I will stick with the plain old 15 buck mouse.

[LindaA]

The "Disembodied" Torso Mouse should be called the "DisMEMBERED" Torso Mouse because the BODY is there, but the limbs are missing, that, plus it needs a little T-shirt that reads "Hooters." No matter. Either way, it's sick and misogynistic.

The pistol mouse is another LOSER.

The calculator mouse is a nifty, if redundant, idea. After all, every computer already has a built-in calculator, and, even better than the computer's built-in calculator is MoffSoft's FreeCalc app which you can download and install from the Internet.

The Zalman FG-1000 FPSGun mouse was designed by someone who definitely had too much time on his hands.

Well, I'll give the Pop'n Music Be-Mouse one thing. It's definitely colorful.

Actually, I think that ASUSTek Vito W1 pulse-checker mouse is a good idea, that is, if it's accurate.

The "computer bug" mice are just plain CREEPY!!! ICK!!! One thing's for sure, if you use one of those mice, no one else in a normal office is going to want to get anywhere NEAR your computer, which is perhaps the whole idea.

Anyway, I'm still using the first mouse I ever had, my trusty Logitech Trackman trackball. Been using it almost eight years, now, and it's still going strong.