I hate memes, but this one I’m sure you’ve seen before is appropriate:
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I have seen memes for the new Mac mini with the power cord plugging into the underside or the entire underside being a big power button.
FYI, Apple has updated its mouse to USB-C (from Lightning)…and it still plugs in underneath.
I use a trackpad. USB goes in the front, big guy.
I’m sorry.
It does.
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My wife tells me that all the time.
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Much prefer it to a mouse. It does all the same stuff without moving.
Didn’t know where to put this (we don’t really have a computers thread) so I’ll put it here.
I thought for sure this was an The Onion headline. “Russia fines Google more money than there is in entire world”
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I kid. I prefer this particular mouse for it’s precision, which I cannot get with a trackpad.
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Apple makes the best trackpads in the industry and I love them on laptops, but even at the fastest tracking speed they aren’t fast enough at a desk with multiple monitors. I use a Logitech gaming mouse (G502 Hero) with adjustable DPI that is both fast and accurate. Plus, the extra mouse buttons can be assigned to do useful things like Exposé.
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I use a trackball. Our ergonomics person said my hands were too big to use a mouse (If I had a nickel for every time I heard that…).
I am not saying that anyone who prefers a mouse is wrong, but…
With my ultra wide screen, occasionally, I will run out of trackpad before the thing I’m dragging has reached its destination. It has become second nature to reposition my fingers on the pad when I have a long drag to do, but dragging has some relativity to it so the faster you drag the further the item moves. It is possible to drag something from one side to the other with a quick flick.
The gestures on the trackpad act as the equivalent to the extra mouse buttons. For example, a three-finger swipe up opens Exposé, a four-finger sideways swipe scrolls through available desktops and a “five-finger” closing gesture brings up Launch Pad.
Of course, having said all of this, I suspect I may have to get a mouse if I’m going to start playing Satisfactory, because I doubt Windows can entertain an Apple TrackPad.
I swing both ways, I have an Apple track pad and an ergonomic mouse.
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Boy, you ain’t lyin’ there. Take that!
To each their own. Picking up my mouse (or my fingers) to keep moving across the screen is unacceptable IMO. And while I know trackpad acceleration is a thing, it’s less predictable. With my mouse at 3200dpi I can cover my entire desktop area (2x2 1080p screens) in a much smaller desk area than even a MacBook Pro trackpad, and the pointer movement is linear with mouse distance traveled, not affected by the speed the mouse moves.
Right, I’m just saying you don’t have to give those things up by switching to a non-Apple mouse.
Doing any type of gaming on a trackpad sounds like absolute torture, but if that’s your speed:
I recently got the logi mx keyboard.
It is way, way better than their $30 offering.
The little dishes on the keys guide the fingers nicely and the keyboard itself has some heft despite being low profile.
ETA: I’m considering the mouse. And to make all this legal for this thread I do own an iPad mini.
In other news…not related to Apple, but Google has been fined by Russia for YouTube blocking some of their propaganda stations. The amount? $20 decillion. That’s $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. They’ll have to take a check.
Watching YT vids of Satisfactory maniacs, it seems that you have to do things like left click and scroll the wheel. Absolutely no way to do that on a trackpad unless you live in the hot dog-fingers universe.
As das cabrera noted in this very thread, that’s more then the entire world’s GDP!