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Title: Why my kids hate mice Post by: HCK on March 19, 2014, 02:00:21 pm Why my kids hate mice
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Maybe it was my first PowerBook (http://apple-history.com/160) that ruined traditional mice for me forever. The first few generations of PowerBooks came with a little trackball as its built-in pointing device—that’s right, Macs didn’t get trackpads until the PowerBook 500 series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_500_series) in 1994. And then a departing co-worker bequeathed her Kensington trackball to me for use on my desktop Mac.</p><p> As a result, I used trackballs as my primary Mac pointing devices for years; my house is still littered with Kensington Expert Mice (http://www.kensington.com/kensington/us/us/p/1444/K64325/expert-mouse®.aspx). I switched to Apple’s Magic Trackpad (http://www.macworld.com/article/1153031/magic_trackpad.html) a few years back. But when my wife and I set up Macs for my kids to use, those trackballs went back into service.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2108062/why-my-kids-hate-mice.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Why my kids hate mice (http://www.macworld.com/article/2108062/why-my-kids-hate-mice.html#tk.rss_all) |