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Magic Mouse Alternative

  • 11-05-2012 11:48am
    #1
    Telchak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭


    So I have a magic mouse at the moment and while I love the build quality and form, I absolutely despise bluetooth :mad:

    It's constantly disconnecting (as is my cheapy bluetooth keyboard, so I guess it's a bluetooth problem), and gets even more awkward when I switch between OSX and Windows. :( I'm using a blutooth dongle, but have another one ordered to see if that's the problem.

    I was wondering is there any decent alternatives out there that use RF (or even wired), but still have all the same multi tough gestures (two finger tap and two finger swipe being the important ones for me)?


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  • #2
    MiniNukinfuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭MiniNukinfuts


    How bout this?. I've been using it for a while now and I love it


  • #3
    Telchak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Telchak


    MiniNukinfuts wrote: »
    How bout this?. I've been using it for a while now and I love it

    Looks comfortable, but from what I read online doesn't have the gestures I want (or even horizontal scrolling):(


  • #4
    MiniNukinfuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭MiniNukinfuts


    It has horizontal scrolling for me, and i use an application called BetterTouchTool to set up my own gestures


  • #5
    Telchak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 891 ✭✭✭Telchak


    That software looks great, do all the gestures work with it that mouse? Really can't do without my two finger swipe :p


  • #6
    MiniNukinfuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 951 ✭✭✭MiniNukinfuts


    I haven't tried that with it, but i say it could. I don't have the mouse on me at the moment so i can't try


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  • #7
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,699 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I saw that Logitech touch mouse in PC World the other day and was very tempted to get it. I love the Magic Mouse, but Bluetooth is indeed a pain. Anytime I download something large the mouse pointer slows to a crawl. Getting an n router would fix it, maybe, but I'm not sure it's worth the expense over a bloody mouse.

    Telchak, does the wireless USB thing for the mouse work in the keyboard port?


  • #8
    avalon68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 689 ✭✭✭avalon68


    Just wondering.....do you have any other blue tooth items that are interfering with the mouse? Maybe phone? I have a magic mouse at work and it kept disconnecting, driving me nuts. Took me a while but eventually realized it was due to a colleagues blue tooth headphones.....every time he walked past my mouse disconnected :P.


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