I posted that as a rrminder to rant about it when I woke up. I just woke up, lets fuckin GO
The magic mouse has NUMBER key flaws.
1. The charging port is on the BOTTOM. This means that nit only is it unusable while charging, but it also sits so awkwardly while charging that you have to either prop it up or let the cable get bent.
2. The skates. Mouse skates are the little bits on the bottom that allow it to glide across a table or mousepad. Apple's mouse skates are the shittiest, most "iT's FuNcTiOnAl" thing I have ever seen. It's two toothpick-y lines along the bottom of the mouse. They don't cross, there isn't any other pieces, that's it. This means that moving it to the side too quickly flips the mouse, especially if you have medium-large hands like me. They're also made of an odd material. I'm not sure what it is, but it feels like sliding a bowl along concrete, and the sound is UNBEARABLE unless you have a thick enough mousepad.
3. That motherfucker is just too thin. I cant hold the thing without my fingers digging into the glass on the sides, and because of my afformentioned big-ish hands, that leads to me acidentally clicking things because:
4. THERE ISN'T ANY FUCKING BUTTONS. you have three "actions" with this mouse. Single finger click (left click), double finger click (right click), and sliding your fingers along the surface triggers scroll. This means that you can sroll in all directions, which is kind of neat, but there's a reason mice never have a horizontal scroll wheel. The button-less design also means you can't rest your fingers on top, because it'll almost definitely register scrolling at all times.
5. Absolutely dogshit DPI. DPI stands for Dots Per Inch. To be breif, the higher the DPI, the less you have to move the mouse physically. That isn't a perfect explanation, but for this, it's good enough. The biggest problem the magic mouse has is that there isn't a DPI Switch button. This means you're locked into the default, which is terribly slow. And yeah, if you up the mouse sensitivity in settings, the mouse goes faster, sure, but because the DPI is small, it becomes jumpy and unresponsive.
6. The glass top piece is a real piece of shit. On top of feeling like garbage to rest your fingers on, when you click, it oftens misreads single clicks as doubles, and moreso vice versa. The way it's set also means that you can't hold it from the sides. At a first thought, you may think "why do you need to hold a mpuse from the sides". This is a stupid thought. You need to puck up the mouse to move it, and this motherfucker digs into your hands and hurts. On top of that, you need to hild it from the sides because because it isn't usable like a normal mouse.
7. Ugly. I don't need to explain. I'm right. It dorsn't look good in ads or displays, but then it also looks WORSE in use because dirt gets in the little gap ynder the glass piece. And of course, the Apple logo is obnoxious and shitty. As always.
8. It stops working after a few years. Some things do that, but with Apple, you can tell it's designed to. This piece of garbage short kills itself after a couple hundred charge cycles because Apple wants you to buy another mouse. How much are these again?
9. Oh. Right. It is eighty dollars. Some mice are worth eighty dollars, like Logitech's G Pro Superlight, or Razer's Barracuda 3. They cost like a hundred, which is a different problem, but the point is that those are mice that would justify a high price tag. This thing is the opposite.
The most infuriating thing is that I KNOW they can do better. I onow they can do better because EVERYONE ELSE IS. The big names in the mouse selling game are Logitech, my favorite, Razer (I'm not a fan because of the asthetics, but their performance is very high quality), and Corsair, who make all kinds of high quality computer gear.
If you want an alternative to the Magic Mouse, these are my favorites:
1. Logitech G305 Superlight. It's reasonably priced at around $45, and has the perfect amount of buttons. Two clicks, scroll wheel, DPI switch, and two thumb buttons for convenience. Logitech's Hero sensor is amazing, and is this was is the best price to perofrmance mpuse they make.
2. Logitech G Pro Superlight. It's expensive as fuck, but that premium price is felt in it's premium quality. It's not something I'd recommend ti the average person because of the price, but if you've got money to waste, this is a pretty good hole to throw it into.
2.5 Logitech MX Master. The G Pro Superlight's odd brother, this guy is ver similar, but shaped to be a bit more comfortabke for the hand. The MX Master 2 also exists, but it's so much more expensive that it can fuck off.
3. Logitech Pebble. It's a goofy lil motherfucker, but it's kinda cute, fairly high quality, low profile, and cheap. The epitome of "haha lil baby man." The only thing I genuinely dislike is the lack of thumb buttons, but hey, maybe that's a plus for you. Whatever works.
4. G502 Hero. It isn't wireless, but this bitch is popular for damn good reasons. Remember the Hero sensor I mention earlier? This was the first mouse to use that. It's also well shaped, has good buttons, looks nice. It's getting ild now, which is good because the price will be lower. Logitech doesn't build killswitches into their products (cough cough apple and google), so this thing will still kick ass for years, despite beijg old-ish.
5. HyperX Pulsefire. The name makes kt spunds like gamrr-y bullshit, because it kinda is. It's actually really nice, though. The hex-pattern holes lower the wright, making it really nice and easy to use, on top of having a texture I really like. Sensor is no Hero, but it's pretty good. Same Ideal button pattern as the above.
RACECAR MOUSE. no thumb buttons or DPI switch, but it's only ten dollars and looks like a racecar. vroom vroom, bitch.
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