Hi,

What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).

Thanks

In article <Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252>,
Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:

> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC
> and MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).

Well, you can get the wireless Mighty Mouse with the iMac; you'll also
get a wireless keyboard.

But the answer actually, is whichever one fits your hand best.

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Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
755E13.09114722092007@news.east.cox.net:

> In article <Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252>,
> Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:
>
>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC
>> and MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>
> Well, you can get the wireless Mighty Mouse with the iMac; you'll also
> get a wireless keyboard.
>
> But the answer actually, is whichever one fits your hand best.
>

Is mighty mouse two-button? Can it be used as a two button mouse with XP?

In article <Xns99B3813902F2Eperting@63.218.45.252>,
Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:

>
> Is mighty mouse two-button? Can it be used as a two button mouse with XP?

<http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/specs.html>
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:41:54 -0500, Per Ting wrote
(in article <Xns99B3813902F2Eperting@63.218.45.252>):

> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
> 755E13.09114722092007@news.east.cox.net:
>
>> In article <Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252>,
>> Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC
>>> and MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>
>> Well, you can get the wireless Mighty Mouse with the iMac; you'll also
>> get a wireless keyboard.
>>
>> But the answer actually, is whichever one fits your hand best.
>>
>
> Is mighty mouse two-button? Can it be used as a two button mouse with XP?

4 actually. Scroll thingie is the third and the two pads on the sides pressed
together are a 4th.

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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:41:54 -0400, Per Ting wrote
(in article <Xns99B3813902F2Eperting@63.218.45.252>):

> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
> 755E13.09114722092007@news.east.cox.net:
>
>> In article <Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252>,
>> Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC
>>> and MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>
>> Well, you can get the wireless Mighty Mouse with the iMac; you'll also
>> get a wireless keyboard.
>>
>> But the answer actually, is whichever one fits your hand best.
>>
>
> Is mighty mouse two-button?

Four buttoned.

> Can it be used as a two button mouse with XP?

The wired version certainly can. I've used it with my XP machines. Don't know
about the wireless version, don't see any reason why not.



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On Sep 22, 2007, Per Ting wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
> MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>
> Thanks

Doesn't matter, other than you may actually find a mouse that, even in this
day and age, is actually made for only Windows. But beyond that, if works on
Windows it works on Mac. Zara will tell you all about his or her brother in
law who could not find a Mac-compatible mouse if he were in an Apple store in
Cupertino -- but zara is total liar.

And it's Mac, not MAC, which is whole 'nother thing.

On 2007-09-22 11:41:54 -0500, Per Ting <perting2002******.com> said:

> Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote in news:michelle-
> 755E13.09114722092007@news.east.cox.net:
>
>> In article <Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252>,
>> Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC
>>> and MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>
>> Well, you can get the wireless Mighty Mouse with the iMac; you'll also
>> get a wireless keyboard.
>>
>> But the answer actually, is whichever one fits your hand best.
>>
>
> Is mighty mouse two-button?

As others have indicated - it's a four-button mouse. Take a look at
the System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse panel to see or
change the button assignments. : )

> Can it be used as a two button mouse with XP?

With Boot Camp, I believe so, because Boot Camp comes with drivers for
Apple hardware.

You may get mixed results with Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion -
maybe someone with direct experience with them can answer that.

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"Per Ting" <perting2002******.com> wrote in message
news:Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252...
> Hi,
>
> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
> MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>
> Thanks

Most third party mice, do not work well with macs.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:17:29 -0500, zara wrote
(in article <9SdJi.77335$Lu.10456@bignews8.bellsouth.net>):

>
> "Per Ting" <perting2002******.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252...
>> Hi,
>>
>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
>> MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Most third party mice, do not work well with macs.

That's news to me as I've never experienced any problem using mice from such
as Kensington, Microsoft, and Logitech on Macintoshes, and this goes way, way
back to around 1990. I'd be interested in factual data to support the above
assertion.


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Warren Oates <warren.oates******.com> wrote in
news:46f5470a$0$8664$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com:

> In article <Xns99B3813902F2Eperting@63.218.45.252>,
> Per Ting <perting2002******.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is mighty mouse two-button? Can it be used as a two button mouse with
>> XP?
>
> <http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/specs.html>

Thanks for the link. Interestingly enough, from the site it seems that the
wireless version would not work under XP.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:25:17 -0400, TaliesinSoft wrote
(in article <0001HW.C31AD64D000639E8B019F94F@news.supernews.co m>):

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:17:29 -0500, zara wrote
> (in article <9SdJi.77335$Lu.10456@bignews8.bellsouth.net>):
>
>>
>> "Per Ting" <perting2002******.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
>>> MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Most third party mice, do not work well with macs.
>
> That's news to me as I've never experienced any problem using mice from such
> as Kensington, Microsoft, and Logitech on Macintoshes, and this goes way, way

> back to around 1990. I'd be interested in factual data to support the above
> assertion.
>

I'd be interested in seeing such data, too. Particularly as I have attached
to various Macs around the house and the office Logitech Wheel Mice, Logitech
TrackMan track balls, and at least three different generations of Microsoft
mice. Plus a few no-name Taiwanese and Korean mice. Every mouse I've tried to
attach to a Mac has worked, so long as the mouse had a USB connector, going
back to the first Macs I've had which had USB. And, indeed, beyond, as USB
mice work even with my old beige G3, which didn't ship with USB ports but
which _does_ have a Sonnet USB/FireWire card installed. It's kinda hard to
find ADB mice nowadays, so the beige has been using a USB mouse for literal
_years_. Both buttons and the scroll wheel worked out of the box with both OS
X and OS 9.

But hey, as I've said before, you can't trust dizzie to tell the truth about
_anything_.


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In article <9SdJi.77335$Lu.10456@bignews8.bellsouth.net>,
"zara" <bigisdikis@aol.com> wrote:

> "Per Ting" <perting2002******.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252...
> > Hi,
> >
> > What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
> > MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Most third party mice, do not work well with macs.

That has not been my experience at all. I use a $20 mouse that's put out
by Microsoft and it works great. I have two of them: one on my PowerMac
G5 and one on my MacPro. I tried Apple's Mighty Mouse and it was nowhere
near as good as my Microsoft Mouse. My mice are wired, but I am sure the
wireless versions would be fine too.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:31:41 -0500, Shawn Hirn wrote (in article
<srhi-287B64.17314122092007@newsgroups.comcast.net>):

[responding to the posted assertion that Macintoshes do not easily support
non-Apple mice]

> That has not been my experience at all. I use a $20 mouse that's put out
> by Microsoft and it works great. I have two of them: one on my PowerMac G5
> and one on my MacPro. I tried Apple's Mighty Mouse and it was nowhere near
> as good as my Microsoft Mouse. My mice are wired, but I am sure the
> wireless versions would be fine too.

I'm currently using a Kensington bluetooth mouse that has two buttons and a
scroll wheel that provides both vertical and horizontal actions. It connected
right off with no problems.

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On 2007-09-22 14:25:17 -0500, TaliesinSoft <taliesinsoft@mac.com> said:

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:17:29 -0500, zara wrote
> (in article <9SdJi.77335$Lu.10456@bignews8.bellsouth.net>):
>
>>
>> "Per Ting" <perting2002******.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns99B3790A55Aperting@63.218.45.252...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> What wireless two button mouse is recommended to be used with iMAC and
>>> MACbook pro (to be used both with windows and OSX OP's).
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Most third party mice, do not work well with macs.
>
> That's news to me as I've never experienced any problem using mice from such
> as Kensington, Microsoft, and Logitech on Macintoshes, and this goes way, way
> back to around 1990. I'd be interested in factual data to support the above
> assertion.

The Zero couldn't stay away from these news groups if it tried - it's
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guys pay any attention to the little scab - I killed all it's posts
long ago. Your responses are the only reminders that the Zero exists.

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