On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 00:07, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > On Jan 03 2002, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > As I should be getting my powerbook in the next week or two, what > > kind of decent usb mouse would you recommend ? I'd like something > > that will work with OSX as well. > > Humm... Wouldn't the extra mouse consume more energy and > shorten the lifetime of the charge of the battery? Would it be > negligible? > > I'm using a PMac 9500 with an old ADB mouse and I've kind of > learned to use F11 and F12 as the second and third mouse > buttons and, regarding a notebook, I'd trade a tiny bit of > comfort for extra battery life. > > Well, the above paragraphs assume that the pb *has* f11 and > f12 buttons and that other people also care for extended > battery life, but I've never touched an apple notebook with > which I could play for more than 1 hour. :-) > > Besides, I actually like tapping the trackpad as a substitute > for clicking (which I'm also assuming is possible with the pbs > and ibooks).
I don't know how much battery an external mouse consumes but it shouldnt be too much. Hoever I don't feel like using one since it's not to practical to always carry one more thing around... Plus the use of an externa� mouse limits use of the laptop to fairly flat surfaces which means, no sitting in the coach, bed, on the bus, in the car etc... No good idea... I think I'll have a go with the emulation first... Tomasz
