Nic,
I have to agree. I'm not usually very enthused about hardware but this
thing does it for me. How do you have your extra buttons mapped? I've used
the little thumb button as 'escape' (a very important key in our apps). As
an IO device I rate it tops. My complaint (I have small hands but I don't
have a problem with the big silver thing) is that while my new mouse and
fancy explorer keyboard _should_ let me do things real fast, I'm stuck with
lots of real-soon-now kinds of responses to wheel twiddling and
Mail/Web/Volume/Media button pushing. If only M$ software could keep up
with the fancy input hardware, I would join you in heaven and buy you a
beer. Mind you, I've also had to install a nice animated hourglass cursor
of a Ducati cornering for when Delphi decides to have a sleep. The blame
for that probably rests with me for leaving Code Insight turned on (it's a
must have), or with Borland/Inprise for not killing the Code Insight thread
(or whatever it is ) when I start typing again, but I guess its more fun to
blame Microsoft.
One more thing about the mouse - kids love it, and the glow makes it easier
to find your machine in the dark (I use a blank-the-screen screen-saver and
sometimes have inspiration at odd times of day(night))
----- Original Message -----
From: Nic Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: Mice: VERY offtopic.
>
> OK, this _is_ _way_ offtopic, but I _have_ to rant (or rave) about this:
>
> The MS Intellimouse Explorer. Its optical (nice red glow). Its accurate
> as hell (if you use photoshop or similar pixel-level app, you NEED one
> of these. period.). Its USB :) (and PS/2)
>
> Only complaint: the big dark-silver one is too big for my hand. If I
> could get the mechanism into my old mouse (Acer/logitech jobbie), I'd be
> in heaven.
>
> Worth every last cent of the $100 it cost me. There is also a cheeper
> (white, old style) one available.
>
> N
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