The Surface Mouse’s Haptics Are Truly Unique, but We Need Even More Rumble
I was bearing too much concern when I stepped up to use the first Microsoft-made mouse in close to 10 years. Mostly, that was because the new $80 Surface Mouse is the kind of ambidextrous mouse that strays a little too close to the worst ideas of the maligned Apple Magic Mouse. It’s then that I learned the mouse is both innovative and backwards-looking, a relic for modern times with the smoothest mouse click around and powered by traditional AAA batteries.
- ▪I was bearing too much concern when I stepped up to use the first Microsoft-made mouse in close to 10 years.
- ▪Mostly, that was because the new $80 Surface Mouse is the kind of ambidextrous mouse that strays a little too close to the worst ideas of the maligned Apple Magic Mouse.
- ▪It’s then that I learned the mouse is both innovative and backwards-looking, a relic for modern times with the smoothest mouse click around and powered by traditional AAA batteries.
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I was bearing too much concern when I stepped up to use the first Microsoft-made mouse in close to 10 years. Mostly, that was because the new $80 Surface Mouse is the kind of ambidextrous mouse that strays a little too close to the worst ideas of the maligned Apple Magic Mouse. It’s then that I learned the mouse is both innovative and backwards-looking, a relic for modern times with the smoothest mouse click around and powered by traditional AAA batteries. Microsoft is trying to rethink traditional productivity PC controls with a device that’s essentially Microsoft’s “Precision Haptic” trackpad in computer mouse form. Instead of any of the switches of a traditional optical mouse, the $80 Surface Mouse has capacitive touch and pressure sensors to determine if you’re performing a click.
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