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heart93
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Can anyone recommend a good replacement adb mouse? My mom has my old computer, but can't seem to master the trackball that came w/ it. She wore out her other mouse. She really likes the new optical mouse on my iMac. I would like to find an optical one, but am not sure if there are any that are adb. Unfortunately, due to monetary concerns, a usb card is not going to be an option at this time.
If there aren't any optical mice available, what else would you recommend?
TIA
heart93
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Join Date: Feb 2000
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Check out Macally. Logitech is out of the ADB biz.
CDW has decent prices on them
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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The Kensington Turbo Mouse. Don't know what she tried to use before, but I love this input device. I'd be lost w/out it!
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Does MacAlly have programmable software like Kensington? She does seem to like that feature of the trackball.
Am I correct in assuming that the only way she's going to get optical is with a converter of some sort?
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Macally uses a driver to configure the buttons. very simple, and customizable for each application, and a global setting.
The only hitch I hit was for programming the second button for contextual menus in general. I programmed it for global, but left the default for the Finder. Took me a few minutes and a lot of cursing to figure that one out. Plain dumb, now that I look back on it. 
BTW, it rocks in Quake II -> it comes with a sprocket Lib so you can configure it as needed.
Only complaint is the 3-foot cord, so now it plugs into my keyboard instead of a clean wraparound to my ColorSync monitor. Oh well.
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USB PCI cards are not expensive. I just got one from Computers4sure for $29.95 +S&H. Had it in 2 days. The mouse will cost more. 
Griz
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