When I moved to using Apple computers, previous converts told me that the computers were great but the mice sucked.
And it is true. A Mac mouse is a horrid, fiddly little thing which looks cool but isn’t. After persevering for nearly a year, on my last trip to Bangkok I bought a couple of Logitech wireless mice; one for me and one for the wife. The wife’s new mouse has worked flawlessly. Mine worked flawlessly for two days and then stopped. I changed the batteries. Nothing. I tried secretly swapping my mouse for hers, but she found out. So yesterday I took my dead mouse into iStudio in Siam Paragon and asked them to check it out.
I knew before I gave it to them what would happen. I had changed the batteries twice, tried it on three separate Macs, pressed the “connect now” button endlessly; and every time it had refused to respond. So I give it to the girl in the shop and it immediately works perfectly, the devious little plastic bastard.
Of course I am then treated like an idiot by the shop assistant. “You have to put batteries in it. You have to press this little button to make it connect. Are you trying to connect it to a computer or a washing machine?” I snatch my resurrected mouse, which I will henceforth refer to as Jesus, and made a hasty exit. No doubt when I try it out again at home, it will fail; at which point I will throw it out and buy an Apple mouse, at least they work.
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2008-07-02| Billy saysTry Vista, it’s great and the mice work every time!
2008-07-02| Spike saysoh please…..