It really is kind of weird, the way that suddenly one day we all woke up in a world where changing a computer mouse was no longer a let’s-find-the-driver pain in the rear. Now you just yank one out of the packaging and keep on going. I’d like to go all sentimental and say that we lost something with this new convenience, somehow – only it’d be an absolute lie. I absolutely HATED replacing mice, back in the day.
That’s it. Enjoy your Sunday.
FWIW, in order to get a decent ambidextrous mouse for the macbook, since I use it left-handed, I end up using one of a couple different Razer’s. And they are precisely a ‘let’s find the driver’ PITA on the mac… But it’s that or using the stupid trackpad. Apple mice, which don’t have driver hell, are quite possibly the worst mice I’ve used in years. They sure look pretty though.
My first purpose built gaming rig. It was awesome. Right up until the graphics drivers got corrupted. Never was able to get the two graphics cards to play nicely together after that. Even though they were made by the same company, for the expressed purpose of being used together. I had all the appropriate discs, and even tried to get updated files from the company. Pissed me off something fierce.
Ah yes, the joys of a nearly truly *universal* universal serial bus.
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That said, I … do have a certain nostalgia .. for the digital Burgess Shale mass parallel evolution of pointer devices.
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Trackballs, mice, mice with more than two buttons, trackballs where you could click the ball itself, the evolution of the scroll-wheel, the laptop “nubbin”, external touchpads, touch*screens* …
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The mouse has won, but some of those other designs were – for specific tasks – much nicer.
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Mew