This is a little pearl of HID. Finally Apple removed that small ball from its mouse.
Personally I find that that little ball is quite unusable and easy to breaks.
This new one mouse is amazingly well designed and it recognize gestures, in fact the surface is touch sensitive and is a unique button like the track pad present in Macbook Pro laptops.Complete specifications can be found at Apple website.
All its functions can be customized into the Settings panel, but options are a bit limited; for example you can not control functions like Exposè or functionality for rotation. To achieve those functions you need to touch the Mac keyboard again. Another point is that this mouse under Windows is recognized like a 2 button mouse and nothing else.
I think that in future Apple will update these feature through software updates. Should be useful also if its functionality will become accessible to software developers so that gesture can be used into developed applications.
Thanks for reading :-)
The little ball stops once every couple months when it get a speck of dust in it, but I haven't had one break in 4 or 5 years of daily use. Just roll it hard for a few seconds to crush the obstruction and the problem is solved.
ReplyDelete... good to know, I'll try on mine :)
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