{"id":54,"date":"2006-05-08T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/as-predicted-the-mighty-mouse-sucks\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T20:29:07","slug":"as-predicted-the-mighty-mouse-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/as-predicted-the-mighty-mouse-sucks","title":{"rendered":"As Predicted: the Mighty Mouse Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my posting of <a href=\"http:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/02\/my-intel-imac-first-impressions\/\">initial impressions about the Intel iMac<\/a>, I went on at some length about how awful the Apple Mighty Mouse is. I promptly replaced mine with a vastly superior Microsoft mouse, but Chris kept using his. Today he told me that the scrolling ball on his has died altogether, after acting unreliably since a week or so after he started using it. As he observed when it started acting up, there&#8217;s no way to clean the scrolling ball. Since anyone who&#8217;s old enough to remember using mice before they had optical tracking knows, mouse balls get dirty and have to be cleaned. (That&#8217;s one reason why optical mice were invented and took over the market.) The ball in Chris&#8217;s mouse finally got gunked up enough that it no longer works.<br \/>\nChris received his iMac in Feburary, so that means his mouse failed after about three months of daily use. That&#8217;s not very impressive; I have mice that are still going strong after years of daily use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my posting of initial impressions about the Intel iMac, I went on at some length about how awful the Apple Mighty Mouse is. I promptly replaced mine with a vastly superior Microsoft mouse, but Chris kept using his. Today he told me that the scrolling ball on his has died altogether, after acting unreliably&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/as-predicted-the-mighty-mouse-sucks\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As Predicted: the Mighty Mouse Sucks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionebula.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}