Microsoft’s $49.95 ($29.95 through ) offers a few nice bonuses for the price: a wireless mouse and Mac OS support. But its standout feature is its software for customizing hotkeys. When I installed the included Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center software, I was able to create macros or assign shortcuts (to launch OneNote, for instance). Eight keys are up for grabs. There’s also a dedicated key to open Calculator, along with the usual Volume-up, Volume-down, Mute, and Play/Pause keys. Basic Features.
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Two AAA batteries. Advertised battery life of up to two years This full-sized keyboard is slender, but feels solid.
The chiclet-style keys are adequately spaced, making it easy to just start typing. The kick-out legs didn’t give the keyboard enough of a slant to suit my taste, but this did not impede my typing flow. Rob Schultz The chiclet-style keys were fine for typing.except one. The Wireless 900 responded just fine whether I was pounding the keys or flying lightly.
All the keys—except one—are surprisingly quiet. Sticking out like a sore thumb is the space bar, which emits a loud thwack when pressed. Even though my workspace is filled with white noise, this thwack consistently annoyed me and seemed like a quality oversight in the keyboard’s design. The Wireless 900 could have been just another desktop keyboard with a mouse, and its annoying spacebar does it no favors. Thanks to its programmable keys, it's a versatile device and a solid value.
A new, unused item with absolutely no signs of wear. The item may be missing the original packaging, or in the original packaging but not sealed. The item may be a factory second or a new, unused item with defects. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. Seller Notes: “ GRADE A OPENBOX ITEM - With the ability to work up to 30 feet away from your computer, this Microsoft wireless desktop lets you work and play comfortably ” Model: Wireless Comfort 5000 Connectivity: Wireless Modified Item: No Mouse Features: Ambidextrous Country/Region of Manufacture: China MPN: CSD-00002 Custom Bundle: No Keyboard Type: Ergonomic Interface: USB Brand: Microsoft Tracking Method: BlueTrack Non-Domestic Product: No Mouse Type: Standard Keyboard Language: English Bundle Listing: Yes UPC: 75.
Apple has put us all on notice with the announcement of. The MacBook has, and the clear message is anymore except a power cable. It’s not even clear other than perhaps Apple is telling us we now live in a post-port world. While the MacBook is a sort of forward looking “concept” Mac, all of Apple’s portables aren’t exactly flush with USB ports- every shipping Mac laptop currently has only two USB 3 ports,. My primary traveling machine is an 11″ MacBook Air.
Most of the time, I don’t bother with a mouse. I love Apple’s.
Before Apple released the, I reached out to Apple’s business sales group to ask if anyone made such a device. I bought one as soon is it was released, but sadly using the Magic Trackpad doesn’t quite work as nicely as the built-in trackpad on a laptop.
I suspect the core issue is the placement of the trackpad on the side of the keyboard, and the fact that unlike a laptop, the trackpad isn’t at a fixed location relative to a keyboard. I assume or else you’d see more Magic Trackpads in the wild. I’d be curious to hear from anyone, especially developers, who’ve gone all-in with a Magic Trackpad as their only pointing device.
The 11″ Air is a great machine on the go, but when I’m in an office, I generally like to have the machine attached to an external display, treating it like a desktop. Since mice provide higher precision pointing, it’s not probably more common to see people working with a laptop and a mouse without an external display. A few years back, I searched for the “best” bluetooth mouse for the Mac, and I couldn’t find one.
I’m not alone. Currently offers this suggestion: Unfortunately there still aren’t any great Bluetooth mice. So I settled on a. It’s a fine mouse. It has the familiar shape lots of Logitech mice have had for a decade. Prior to this mouse, I’d been using a wired Logitech mouse that was almost indistinguishable from this model.
The downside of course is the USB receiver that will consume 1/2 of your laptop’s USB ports (or in the case of the new MacBook, the ONLY port with the help of a dongle). Living with the loss of the port is not a huge deal, but it’s annoying. The issue I ran across that drove me back into the bluetooth hunt was that I started using a so I could easily plug laptops into my desktop setup in my home office.
This makes it super easy to plug your Mac laptop into a display, speakers, mouse, keyboard, ethernet, external drives, etc., etc., etc. The downside is all of that traffic is coming in over one port, and I’ve found that the data coming from the Logitech receiver stutters when it’s in contention with all the other inputs. The mouse works, but every minute or so it might experience and freeze.
To get around this, I dug up one of my old wired Logitech mice, which. So, back to the bluetooth hunt.
As the Wirecutter points out, pretty much all bluetooth mice are awful. Keyboards are easy. There’s a good, a, an, but all the mice are generally and kinda crappy.
Of course Apple has a solution for this- their very own. The big win of the Magic Mouse is that it’s made by Apple, so you know it will work really well with your Mac, and it has, which is fairly novel. I love Apple multitouch trackpads because of how easy it is to right-click with two fingers, zoom in and out, switch spaces, etc. The Magic Mouse promises this kind of rich interaction, but it really falls short.
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The best you’ll get out of this is scrolling up/down/right/left, and smart zoom. Of course it supports more gestures than that, but they’re all awkward compared to a trackpad.
Also, the mouse is incredibly low profile, so you end up gripping it with your thumb and either a pinky or ring finger, leaving two or three fingers hovering over the surface to pull off gestures. It’s bad enough for most people that. Beyond the ergonomics, the Magic Mouse just doesn’t feel very good, which stinks because its pretty expensive.
Logitech and others not only sculpt the mouse to a more hand-friendly shape, but they also incorporate softer plastics and rubber panels to make the device feel more comfortable and secure in the hand. Gripping the magic mouse feels like gripping the disc of a with two fingers. While it supports right-clicking, Apple has gone out of it’s way to make it confusing for people to figure out how to perform right clicks with their “buttonless” design.
The entire computer industry copies Apple’s laptop design. No one goes out of their way to copy. If the Apple mouse actually works for you, I’m seriously envious. The one thing I miss the most using a vanilla mouse is. Smart zooming in Safari and other applications is great, and it works flawlessly on the multitouch trackpad and the Magic Trackpad.
It’s also one of the gestures that’s pretty easy to pull off on the Magic Mouse, and it’s the only thing that made me seriously consider switching to one full time. But the cramp-inducing Magic Mouse isn’t worth living with simply for the zooming. While the Wirecuter is correct that’s there’s no really “best” bluetooth mouse that can be recommended without reservation, there’s now a reasonable option: The: This mouse is far from perfect, but it’s the most reasonable bluetooth mouse I’ve seen so far, and if you’re willing to jump through some hoops, it’s probably the best bluetooth mouse for the Mac. First off, it’s not a “travel size” mouse.
It’s a tad smaller than I would like, but it’s closer to full size than what’s out there. (Microsoft makes a somewhat nicer sized of this mouse which for some reason uses a USB receiver rather than bluetooth). Like Logitech, the side of the mouse where you touch it is wrapped with grippy rubber, making it feel instantly secure. The scroll-wheel and the buttons feel a little cheap, and they don’t click with the same nice click or precision as Apple’s Magic Mouse or anything Logitech or Kensington offers, but the buttons are passable. The scroll-wheel feels a little too small and a bit cheap, but it works fine, and it tilts left/right to scroll horizontally. I love scrolling on Apple’s trackpads, but I’ve yet to find a scroll-wheel I don’t prefer to the scrolling gesture on the Magic Mouse.
I haven't found a setting to overwrite this behavior. Edtracker ui for mac. Overall, this whole thing felt very disappointing and 'not worth it'. But I understand that: • optical tracking (e.g.
The tracking is magnificent on every surface I’ve tried, and I’ve yet to have any problems with the bluetooth signal. Out of the box, it’s probably the best generic bluetooth mouse you can get for the Mac, and at $40 (you can find it for almost $20 if you shop around), it’s priced in the same ballpark as a good RF wireless mouse and it’s almost half the price of the Magic Mouse. There is one bit of weirdness though and that’s the goofy Windows button on the side: The Windows button is.
Make no mistake, Microsoft’s gesture input does not work as well as the Magic Mouse, though the location of the surface on the side of the mouse does make it easier to swipe up and down while still gripping the mouse comfortably. What’s not clear is why putting additional physical buttons on the side of the mouse wouldn’t have been a better choice than swiping, which feels gimmicky. Also, the mouse will rumble when you complete a swipe, which is another gimmick, though the feedback is appreciated because getting the swipe right is not intuitive. To swipe, you have to drag your thumb over the surface, but NOT press the button, which isn’t clear from the digram. The big problem for OS X is that not only are the swipes not recognized, neither is pressing the Windows button recognized as pressing a mouse button at all. By default, here’s what happens when you press or swipe the button: Windows Button: Command Swipe Up: Command-Control-Delete Swipe Down: Command-Control-Tab Got that? On Windows, the Windows key is recognized as a keypress which shows the Start Menu.
On the Mac, it’s the Command modifier, so on its own it does nothing. Granted, mapping a large button that’s always under your thumb to Command is not a bad idea ergonomically.
You could just leave it as-is and use it for Command clicking, or as a modifier key for pressing keyboard shortcuts. Hp alm 11 5 excel add-in for mac free. The flaw in this plan is the mouse will stop tracking while you hold down this key. For example, say you wanted to use the Windows key to Command-click a bunch of links in Safari to open them in background tabs. You’d be able to click the first link or two, but the mouse will stop tracking and you won’t be able to move the pointer over other links. While you could maybe get some use out of the Windows button as-is, the keys sent by swiping are pretty useless. Even out of the box, I think the Sculpt Comfort Mouse is still probably the “best” bluetooth mouse you can get for the Mac as it will be a very decent, mostly comfortable pointing device that won’t eat a USB port.
It’s not as comfortable as run-of-the mill Logitech mice, but its close enough. If you’re willing to get your hands dirty though, you can put that Windows button to use and make this mouse even better. First we need to address what keys/modifiers are being sent when you interact with the Windows button. I’m a big fan of, and I’ve been using it with all my mice for years, but it won’t help you here. It can’t detect when the Windows key is pressed. We need to remap the input, and specifically from the mouse. To do this we need to use an application called, which can remap your keyboard keys and mouse buttons.
I’ve been using Karabiner for years (formerly KeyRemap4MacBook) to map my right Option key to act as an Enter key. I’ve been using Apple laptops for long enough that my mind is wired to expect. Out of the box, Karabiner does not have any settings that will map the Windows key, but we can add a mapping to it’s: MICROSOFT 0x045e MICROSOFTSCULPTMOUSE 0x07a2 Microsoft Sculpt Mouse - Map Windows Button private.msftsculpt DeviceVendor::MICROSOFT, DeviceProduct::MICROSOFTSCULPTMOUSE KeyToKey KeyCode::CONTROLL, KeyCode::VKNONE KeyToKey KeyCode::DELETE, KeyCode::COMMANDL KeyToKey KeyCode::TAB, KeyCode::OPTIONL KeyToKey KeyCode::COMMANDL, PointingButton::BUTTON5 These settings do four things:. Prevent the button/swipes from ever sending the Control modifier. The mouse sends this with all swipes and it ends up making it harder to differentiate them. Convert pressing the Windows button from sending the Command modifier to sending a distinct mouse button click.
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Modify the swipe up gesture so it simulates clicking the Windows button with the Command modifier. Modify the swipe down gesture so it simulates clicking the Windows button with the Option modifier. This is only half the story, however. With Karabiner, we can translate the input from the Windows button to something we could reasonably interpret, but it doesn’t actually do anything with these inputs. You could use a bunch of tools to map these inputs to something useful. Sadly, USB Overdrive is not one of them, as it will still see the original, untranslated inputs from the mouse. I did some experiments with, but I got the best results using an application called.
Using better touch tool, you can map these translated inputs into actions that are useful for OS X: With these mappings, swiping down will trigger the “back” command, which is useful for web browsing and other apps. Similarly, swiping up will trigger a “forward” command.
It’s certainly not as intuitive as the two physical buttons on my Logitech mouse, but it works well enough, and probably about as well as the gestures work in Windows. Also, with Better Touch Tool, I was able to map pressing the windows button to Smart Zoom. So, I can get my favorite multitouch gesture without having to deal with the Magic Mouse. In this example, I also have pressing the scroll-wheel mapped to Command-Click,. Pressing the scroll-wheel never feels right to me, but I guess we can make it do something. I admit that all this extra configuration is a bit ridiculous.
That said, if you go through the effort, the Windows button and the gestures work really well. It would be great if Microsoft provided a driver for the Mac, but hey, they’d like you to buy a Surface Pro 3. If Logitech ever gets serious about bluetooth, I might change my mind, but for now, the is the best bluetooth mouse you can get for the Mac. The Windows key and gestures are a little wonky, but with some effort, they work fine with OS X.
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The Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 offers sporty style that's ready to go Carry this compact and sporty wireless mouse, and use it just about anywhere, even on your living room carpet, relying on Microsoft BlueTrack Technology. Relaxing on the couch or giving a boardroom presentation?
Roam up to 15 feet away, and retain reliable wireless control of your computer. Plus, when it’s time to pack up and go, you’ll hardly notice the tiny transceiver. Keep it plugged into your computer’s USB port, or tuck it into the underside of the mouse for travel.
Microsoft has quietly posted two new accessories onto its online storefront, called the ' and ' (via ). Both devices are built to visually match the company's line of Surface products and connect to Windows PCs, but the Modern Keyboard will also connect to any macOS and iOS device that supports Bluetooth 4.0. The Modern Keyboard has a low profile with an aluminum frame that Microsoft says is 'virtually indestructible,' while still remaining sleek. It can also be used wirelessly through Bluetooth 4.0 or with a wired connection, includes a rechargeable battery that can last up to two months on one charge, and weighs about 14.79 ounces. Notably, the Modern Keyboard includes a hidden fingerprint sensor located between the Alt and Ctrl keys that lets users unlock their Windows 10 devices with a simple finger press using. Although the keyboard can be used on a Mac, iPhone, and iPad to type, the fingerprint unlocking feature is not compatible with Apple devices. Microsoft said that its goal was to seamlessly blend the fingerprint sensor into a key on the keyboard, 'so it would appear to be any other key.'
Our vision was to blend the Fingerprint reader into a keyboard, so it would appear to be any other key. We iterated relentlessly to improve each layer, making sure they came together to create a flawless typing experience that felt like any other key. Microsoft's new keyboard falls in line with a similar product requested by Mac fans since the debut of Touch ID within the MacBook Pro's keyboard last year, which would be a Magic Keyboard for Mac with Touch ID included somewhere on the device. Last week, Apple, but it lacks a Touch Bar and Touch ID. I personally wouldn't buy a mouse if it didn't have a scroll wheel I find the scrolling on the Magic Mouse so smooth compared to scroll wheels.
When working with large files in Photoshop & Illustrator or coding in dreamweaver, or just simply browsing the web, The ability to flick up/down and left/right or just touch and scroll to navigate around in any direction is absolutely brilliant. I would never want to go back to a scroll wheel out of choice as in my kind of work they are too slow and clunky. It's just my personal choice though. This is something I don't get. Why the recently released Apple wireless keyboard doesn't include Touch ID and visual touchbar. It sure would have reduced autonomy a lot but all the sudden new desktop users could have accessed those features (iMac, macMini, macPro old and new the logic being in the keyboard directly). This is a very valid question.
I would only be guessing, but Touch ID might have a security issue when sending the signal via BT or else it would require a dedicated chip that would increase the keyboard cost. The visual touchbar on the other hand is a key observation.
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To me the touchbar is a gimmick until every mac has it. Why design a program that uses the touchbar if only a fraction of your customers can access the feature? I imagine that Apple wants to use the touchbar to differentiate the pro line, but I feel like it fractures their ecosystem.
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I would like to see them add the ability to get the touchbar in all their devices to encourage software development. Since it's a Mac exclusive feature getting people dependent upon it would likely reduce churn.
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