Why my kids hate mice<article>
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Maybe it was
my first PowerBook 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 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. I switched to Apple’s
Magic Trackpad 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>
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Why my kids hate mice
