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Webscreamer · Jul 25, 2003, 08:35 PM

Should the Apple make the the speed of the mouse faster in the System prefrences?

It seems they should allow for a little bit more speed...

Bohemia · Jul 25, 2003, 08:43 PM

The highest mouse speed is too slow. My pc using friends are always commenting this.

OwlBoy · Jul 25, 2003, 08:52 PM

I hate hyper mice.

Zip Zip Zip

-Owl

fireside · Jul 25, 2003, 09:34 PM

trust me on this. all your too slow mouse worries have been fixed with Panther. atleast in the dev preview.

oVeRmInD911 · Jul 25, 2003, 09:34 PM

Apple has a thing for making slider value'd prefs and stuff not go through the whole range. Another example of this is the volume changer. It's either silent, then the first bar is medium, with no soft choice. I have it set to the 2nd square and it's pretty loud. When my friends come over and try to turn down my music they're always like, "umm that's as quiet as it gets?" It's pretty annoying.

Or maybe it's just my iMac...

DaedalusDX · Jul 25, 2003, 09:43 PM

I prefer much more control over my mouse speed. I just don't want a slider... I want to be able to adjust the acceleration curve.

Kensington Mouseworks. That's the way to go.

Webscreamer · Jul 25, 2003, 09:59 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
trust me on this. all your too slow mouse worries have been fixed with Panther. atleast in the dev preview.

Very very happy to hear it. Has it just gotten faster, or have other things been added as well?

bborofka · Jul 26, 2003, 01:15 AM

Not only is the mouse speed too slow, the acceleration really sucks. If I move the mouse really slowly, the cursor hardly moves at all, and if I move the mouse moderately fast, the cursor flies across the screen too speedily. This makes general computer use, and especially gaming, difficult. I hate having to use USB overdrive just to get decent mouse speed (with no acceleration), but it's the only way. I can't put up with the default crappy mouse movement in OS X, and I hope they overhaul it in Panther (and get rid of acceleration, or an option to disable it).

Superchicken · Jul 26, 2003, 02:04 AM

My Apple Pro under OS 9 is fine... feels slower under X though. And that's on a 1024/768 on an eMac I noticed how slow the mouse felt.

Chris Grande · Jul 26, 2003, 02:54 AM

MouseZoom allows you to increase OSX's mouse acceleration vales past the ones that the speed slider in the mouse preference pane allows. The highest in OSX is a value of 1.7, MouseZoom allows you to go all the way up to 10.

I do however think that Apple needs to tweak OSX's mouse acceleration curve since OS 9 feels perfect and OSX can sometimes just not feel right. In 10.2 I sometimes find myself missing the close/min/max widgets, that never happened to me in 9.

chris v · Jul 26, 2003, 08:28 AM

I tried MouseZoom and ended up with it on a pretty slow setting. I've currently got my mouse set one notch slower than the fastest setting, and I like it there. A custom acceleration feature like the Kensington one would be really nice, though. (I use a trackball at work)

The mouse acceleration on PC's is one of my biggest gripes against them, personally. I end up flying past buttons 2 or 3 times before I can hit them whenever I have to sit down at a Windows box, which is thankfully rarely. They seem to just track fast all the time, even when moving the mouse slowly. I can see how someone used to that would have trouble with a Mac, though, but to each his own.

CV

sniffer · Jul 27, 2003, 07:00 AM

Originally posted by DaedalusDX:
I prefer much more control over my mouse speed. I just don't want a slider... I want to be able to adjust the acceleration curve.

Kensington Mouseworks. That's the way to go.

I've never liked the "sticky mouse" thing in OS X. It have been there from start for some reason. 3th party drivers (from Kensington in my case) is the way to go in the current state.

alex_wlu_82 · Jul 27, 2003, 02:30 PM

the max speed for my trackpad on my powerbook is way way too fast, but the max speed for the mouse is slow..

ReggieX · Jul 28, 2003, 07:57 PM

I hate PC mouse acceleration. No wonder so many people get carpal tunnel from using computers, you need a deathgrip on the damn mouse to accurately move it!

malvolio · Jul 28, 2003, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by DaedalusDX:
I prefer much more control over my mouse speed. I just don't want a slider... I want to be able to adjust the acceleration curve.

Kensington Mouseworks. That's the way to go.

You said it! Any time I use my wife's iMac with the Apple Pro mouse, the slowness drives me bonkers. My Kensington Optical Pro, OTOH, is able to move at lightning speed or creep along for those fine-control situations.

Adam Betts · Jul 28, 2003, 10:46 PM

I can confirm that the max Mouse Speed in Panther 7B21 is much faster. Putting it to full is way too fast for me.

Sarc · Jul 29, 2003, 01:21 AM

Originally posted by Adam Betts:
I can confirm that the max Mouse Speed in Panther 7B21 is much faster. Putting it to full is way too fast for me.

I concurr, way too fast ...

KidRed · Jul 29, 2003, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by fireside:
trust me on this. all your too slow mouse worries have been fixed with Panther. atleast in the dev preview.

Ah no. Can't really comment other then to say I horribly disagree.

Peter · Jul 30, 2003, 04:10 AM

Panthers top mouse speed is 'zip zip zip' as Owlboy put it. Half way is just right

Cipher13 · Jul 30, 2003, 04:21 AM

You can never have it too fast.

Once I get used to my current speed, I up it. Until it maxes out.

It's not fast enough.