Originally published August 22 2005
Move over buttons, make way for Apple's "Mighty Mouse"
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Apple has moved even further away from the two-button mouse with their invention of the no-button "Mighty Mouse."
Microsoft users have, for years, sneered at their Apple foes for their pathetic mice.
If you've got an Apple mouse you're stuck using the control button or the Apple button or something.
The USB has freed our Apple brethren from their fates and many a Mac is controlled now by a funky functional Logitech mouse with more buttons than you've got fingers, a scroll wheel and all the ergonomics you can shake a stick at.
There's a tiny dot thing but that's the scroll wheel (no, honestly) but where are the buttons?
Actually the atrociously named Mighty Mouse has four buttons, or rather acts as though it has four buttons.
Under the hood the mouse only has one actual clicker thing but because it senses where your fingers are when the clicker is clicked, it figures out which button it is you meant to push.
First person shooters require a different kind of input device and Terra Tec delivers that with the claw.
First person shooters, like Quake, Half Life or Battlefield 1942, require a two-handed approach.
The hand sits on the Claw with the fingertips resting on the five buttons, each of which can be mapped to any control you see fit.
Saitek knows this and has made an optical mouse with the finest level of resolution yet seen.
Typically mice convert your movements across the mouse pad into dots on the screen.
Gamers want finer responses and the Saitek offers a whopping 800 DPI for typical use.
But when you find yourself in a tricky spot, when all about you have lost their heads and when there's no-one to call on for help, hit the Turbo Key to bump up the mouse to 1600 DPI.
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