Comments on: Apple’s Magic Trackpad & PC Games

By: wiper

wiper — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:49:49 +0000

(that was meant as a reply to the trackball-conversation a fair way above. Ah well)

By: wiper

wiper — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:48:58 +0000

Aye, trackballs are fantastic for FPS’s (finger-operated ones at least – it may just be me, but my thumb just isn’t precise enough or fast enough), as well as strategy games and any other cursor-centric titles. I personally swear by the old Intellimouse trackballs, which is a problem as they’re long-since discontinued. Not sure what I’ll do when mine gives up the ghost – no other trackball has been as comfortable or as functional, to my hand at least. It would, of course, be useless to any left-handers though.

By: FunkyBadger

FunkyBadger — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:55:47 +0000

Have you tried trackballs?

By: Faxmachinen

Faxmachinen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:13:24 +0000

The reason you get RSI with a regular mouse (or indeed a touch pad), is because you’re using large muscle groups for small movements. Therefore, trackballs are clearly superior. It takes a while to master, but once you do, you can even play FPSs as well as before, if not better.

By: BeamSplashX

BeamSplashX — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:26:18 +0000

Wacom Wiimote, Alec. Or the Wacomole, though you have to click on things that pop up pretty quickly if you use that one.

By: Sufferer

Sufferer — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:48:46 +0000

If whatever you had vanished over night, you didn’t have it properly. I can be away from PC for 2 days and still have “the burn”.

As for all these trackball suggestions, some concrete, cheap models would be nice.
There are as usual 5 trackball mouse variations available even on the logitech trackman.

By: AndrewC

AndrewC — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:45:26 +0000

Why are people constantly de-installing Deus Ex? It’s only a gig or so! I tell you, PC gamers are some fickle motherfuckers I swears.

By: Bindibadgi

Bindibadgi — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:34:59 +0000

Your wrists need augmenting.

/statutory deus ex reference.
/statutory re-installation of deus ex on someone referencing it.

By: Red Avatar

Red Avatar — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:36:59 +0000

Compared to Mac sites covering PC items, PC users are very tame and super friendly. I’ve never seen so much frothing as on Mac sites over anything non-Mac. For PC users, it’s all about functionality (and a touch pad which Apple made so it wouldn’t work properly on a PC says it all), but for Mac users, it seems to be all about the brand.

By: Red Avatar

Red Avatar — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:23:37 +0000

If you count snobbish elitist and selfish (according to a recent survey) people pissing on PCs and PC gamers as “no reason”, sure. You DO realize this is a PC gaming website, don’t you? So why be surprised that after all the mud flinging from Apple and Mac users towards us, PC users are not that friendly?

By: D

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:19:59 +0000

This is by far the best type of mouse I have tried against RSI. Keeps your hands centered at the keyboard. But I guess it depends on which problem with RSI you have.
http://www.fentek-ind.com/rollermouse.htm

By: Red Avatar

Red Avatar — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:15:35 +0000

I’m with you DJ Phantoon. Anyone PC gamer who has to work with Macs knows how terrible they are and it doesn’t help to hear all those clueless people keep going on about about great Macs are when they’ve given you nothing but trouble. Macs may be simple but that comes at a very steep price: if something is wrong, it’s VERY hard to fix it or to find the solution and it often involves using the console which is ridiculous. Macs are far from miracle machines – compared to Vista and Windows 7, every Mac at work has to be rebooted a lot more often so don’t believe the hype.