NRP128's Journal: Took a mouse to campus today...

The little logitech laptop mouse i usually keep teathered to my laptop, with it's cord that wraps around teh body and USB plug that snaps in place over top of the optical sensor. Really nice deal from newegg for the 14 bucks i gave for it. Anyway, I took it to campus today as an experiment. Here at Purdue there are several labs containing macs, all of them using the standard mac keyboard/mice that are really starting to show their age. some of those keyboards are getting downright disgusting. The color hides NO dirt at all. The 'gliders' on the mice (what i call'em, don't know the tech-term for them) are covered in months of dirt, and make minute movements difficult. Hence taking my mouse to campus... while toting a keyboard isn't feasible, the small, portable mouse, which is still more comfortable to use than the apple oval-puck deal, has 2 buttons and a clickable scroll wheel, really, REALLY completed my mac experience. I never really felt comfortable sitting in front of one, even though i'm getting quite fluent in them as far as daily use and some of the more advanced stuff. Call it attachment, fear of a better world, whatever, but it just completed the comfort. Granted it was a slow-ass iMac that could really use a big dose of ram and a vid card upgrade (yeah right...) but it was still more enjoyable than using the standard puck. *sigh* maybe this summer i'll finally be able to afford one! I just have to get a couple of things purchased first...dual LCDs for one...